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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What are the three different areas of the Autonomic Nervous System?
Limbic system
Stage 2
The Premack Principle
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
2. What is the most dangerous trimester for the fetus (in regard to drug/alcohol use)?
First trimester
12+
Median
Fetal alcohol syndrome
3. What is: a progesterone shot given every three months?
Best friend
Placebo effect
Depo-Provera
Bargaining
4. Why did studies used by Piaget and Freud lead to wrong conclusions?
Projection
Independent variable
They were not scientifically performed
Psychological maltreatment
5. What two other chemicals do the adrenal glands secrete?
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Autonomic Nervous System
5
Recognition
6. The name most associated with operant conditioning is who?
Family therapy
Breast-feeding
B.F. Skinner
Operant Conditioning
7. How was the visual cliff study conducted?
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8. A morpheme that can be a word on its own
Convergent thinking
Free morpheme
Experimental group and control group
Down syndrome
9. What is the opening of the iris - which looks black?
Wilhelm Wundt
As soon as the bell was rung
Pupil
Sound waves
10. How can parents avoid down syndrome in their children?
Cerebrum
Morality of Care
Kibbutz
Conceive at younger ages
11. Fourth stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'There's nothing I can do about this'
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Pituitary gland
Mendel
Preparatory Depression
12. The larger the sample:
Commissures
Gerontology
The more accurate the result
Contraception
13. What is the part of the ear that includes the eardrum - anvil - and stirrup?
Nature vs. nurture
Inner ear
Middle ear
Functionalism
14. 1 -2 -2 -2 -3 -3 -5 -8 -9 -9. What is the mode?
Cephalocaudal
Sterilization
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
2
15. What is: term for how much someone values and respects themselves?
Self-esteem
Full (46)
The penis doesn't grow and breasts may develop.
Naturalistic observation
16. The repetition of certain syllables
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Prenatal development
Babbling
Holophrase syntax
17. What is: the representation in the mind of a set of perceptions - ideas - and actions - which go together
Schema
Preconventional Morality
Preparatory Depression
Breast-feeding
18. Which protective brain layer is mostly blood vessels?
Pia mater
Stage
1 & 2
Structuralism
19. What are the four areas of taste that taste-buds recognize?
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
Informed consent
Invincibility fable
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
20. A higher number of the correlation coefficient closer to the number one shows a:
Gentle birth
Half (23)
Strong correlation
Condom
21. A medical doctor with a degree who specializes in psychotherapy - who can prescribe drugs
Operant conditioning
Nature vs. nurture
The right hand - right eye - and speech
Psychiatrist
22. Jean Piaget extensively used which research method to study children?
10-14 months
B.F. Skinner
Natural observation
Outer ear
23. What is the term for lack of responsiveness to other people?
Denial
Autism
Monozygotic twins
Echolalia
24. What is the variable that the experiment is trying to test?
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
Daydreaming
Emotional health
Dependent variable
25. What is: your thoughts about what gives life purpose--the meaning of life - religion
Structuralism
Crystallized intelligence
Spiritual health
Fetal tobacco syndrome
26. The process of unassociating the condition with the response
Retina
Morality of Justice
Extinction
Hypothalamus
27. When one variable increase - another variable increases. We call this a what?
Rationalization
Cut in half
Organ of corti
Positive Correlation
28. What is: attraction to both sexes?
Middle childhood
Rationalization
Bisexual
Sexual orientation
29. A baby repeating what you just said
Abortion
Monocular cues
Sympathetic nervous system
Echolalia
30. Biological theories of aging: like everything else in the world - the human body wears out
Explicit role instruction
Prenatal development
Wear-and-Tear Theory
Dizygotic twins
31. What is: areas of the body which - when touched - lead to sexual arousal?
Selective attention
Sigmund Freud
Erogenous zones
Binocular cues
32. What is: where the lens changes its curves to help the eye focus?
90%
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
Accommodation
Biological
33. Sigmund Freud's analysis of human personality and subconscious drives features three main components including:
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
Correlation Research
Id - Ego - Super Ego
Adrenal glands
34. What is: the realization that objects stay the same even when they are made to look different?
Conservation
As they age
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
Cross-modal perception
35. First step in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs such as food water and shelter
Independent variable
Physical needs
Parallel play
Semantics
36. A signal to society that certain rules have changed - this person is no longer a child
Authoritarian
Rite of Passage
Cornea
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
37. Why are IQ scores only accurate for short periods of time?
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
Convergent thinking
Strong correlation
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
38. All other variables w/in an experiment that researchers do not have control over
Dependent variable
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
Retina
Social health
39. Did a longitudinal study that showed that smart kids are happy adults
Wilhelm Wundt
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
Equilibrium
Lewis Terman
40. Level 1 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
Hypokinetic diseases
Spiritual health
1 & 2
Iris
41. What is: the most developed - and largest (80%) - part of the brain?
Monozygotic twins
Cerebral cortex
Cerebrum
Accommodation
42. Who created structuralism?
Hour of love
Wilhelm Wundt
Functionalism
Gender
43. What is: any pill designed to prevent pregnancy?
Watching their parents
Ivan Pavlov
Oral contraceptives
Abortion
44. Gifted children often hide gifts to ______.
Norplant
Mean
Fit in
Autism
45. What is: another form of consciousness involving very little effort; dreaming while awake or letting the mind wander?
Strong correlation
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Daydreaming
Sigmund Freud
46. What is the name for depth perception cues made with both eyes?
Binocular cues
Behaviorism
Functionalism
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
47. What is the ability to identify correctly something encountered before?
Recognition
Midwife
Old Age
Cooing
48. What is a specific period in development when a certain event has the greatest impact? (For example - a certain period of time when a young bird can learn to fly)
Wear-and-Tear Theory
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
Critical period
49. What is: a permanent facility control done through surgical procedures?
Sterilization
Heterosexual
Pitch
Genes
50. What is: small device to block access to the uterus; left in place with spermicide for 6-8 hours - in order to kill any remaining sperm?
Diaphragm
Independent variable
Classification
6-12