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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the opening of the iris - which looks black?
Cooing
Humanistic
Pupil
Sublimation
2. Which stage of development is: Initiative vs. Guilt? (trying different roles)
Neonate
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Preschooler
Perception
3. Third element: There is a gap between what the child can do with help - and what they can do on their own; shows when a child has finally learned it
Zone of Proximal Development
Limbic system
1 in 14 -000
Down syndrome
4. What is: the method to prevent an egg and sperm from being able to access each other?
Monozygotic twins
Contraception
Nature
The more accurate the result
5. How much is hearing developed in neonates?
Freud
Selective
23 pairs
Mostly developed by the time of birth
6. Which lobe is related to voluntary muscles and intelligence?
Frontal lobe
Lens
Id
Classical conditioning
7. What is: your feelings and reactions
Emotional health
Consciousness
B.F. Skinner
Hospice
8. What is the most extreme outcome of a woman drinking during her pregnancy?
Wilhelm Wundt
Anger (Emotion)
Social health
Fetal death
9. What are: chemicals designed to kill sperm?
Condom
Spermicides
Assimilation
Psychoanalytic theory
10. What is: term for how much someone values and respects themselves?
Gender conservation
Olfactory sense
Self-esteem
Class inclusion
11. What are: the harmful substances to a developing fetus?
Spermicides
Corpus callosum
Natural prepared childbirth
Teratogens
12. What is: the theory centered on studying how the mind is involved in knowing - learning - remembering - thinking; study how the mind relates to behavior
Parasympathetic
Cognitive
The cloth monkey
The Premack Principle
13. What is: an M.D. who provides comprehensive care for people of all ages?
Egocentric behavior
Family practitioner
Abstinence
Telegraphic speech
14. What fluid covers the brain - and is used to transport chemicals and regulate pressure?
Social development or social cognition
Perception
Cerebrospinal fluid
Sigmund Freud
15. What is: the theory to investigate the elements or 'structures' of the mind; classify structures and focus on conscious thought
Structuralism
Increase
Behavioral
Dizygotic twins
16. Theory by Bandura; the interaction of a person's personality - the environment - and the behavior.
Cooing
Safety
Reciprocal determinism
Iris
17. How do you fix the problem of mother's cells attacking the baby's?
Injections
Recall
Independent variable
Androgynous
18. What is: growth from the center (spine) outward - where vital organs form before the extremities?
Closure
Behavioral
Self-concept
Proximodistal
19. What are the three parts of memory?
Infants were placed on a solid - opaque surface - and the mothers were placed at the end of the table - where the opaque ended and glass begun. The infants didn't want to cross the glass because they could see the distance between themselves and the
Bargaining
Informed consent
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
20. The average of a data set
Habituation
3
Mean
Heterosexual
21. Four steps of the scientific method include:
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
Pituitary gland
Pons
22. A child that bounces back from a difficult situation
Three
Erogenous zones
Resilient child
Stage 2
23. Second step in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Safety
Stage 4
Functionalism
Middle ear
24. Stages of friendship: one way assistance
Family practitioner
4-9
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
Behavioral
25. Recent research supports that children learn from listening to their parents talk to them in 'baby talk'; which aspect of language is this?
The brain
Social aspect of language
Ferdinand Lamaze
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
26. Stages of friendship: intimate
Functionalism
Holophrase syntax
9-15
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
27. What is the main relay station for incoming sensory signals to the cerebral cortex - and outgoing motor signals from it?
Rods
Thalamus
Gestalt psychology
Allow the skull's plates of bone to shift or flex - making childbirth easier.
28. Types of child play in chronological order:
Fetal death
Rubella
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
Multiple caretakers
29. Stage at which children are egocentric and will therefore think divorce is their fault
Mental health
Depth perception
Equilibrium
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
30. A higher number of the correlation coefficient closer to the number one shows a:
Strong correlation
Vestibular sense
Pons
Dialectical perspective
31. Second stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'This is unfair. Why me?'
Equilibrium
Anger (Emotion)
Ivan Pavlov
On chromosomes
32. What are the two parts responsible for bending light and focusing it in the back of the eye?
Divergent thinkers
Set high standards - assist along the way
Cornea and lens
Teratogens
33. What is: psychological definition for having more equal personality characteristics between male&female?
Androgynous
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Injections
Middle-age Adult
34. What is the clear membrane in front of the eye that protects it?
Social development or social cognition
Cornea
Miscarriages or stillbirths
Diaphragm
35. What is the middle number in a set of data called?
Median
Stage 6
Autoimmune Theory
B.F. Skinner
36. Level 1 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development
Informed consent
School-age Child
Behaviorism
Preconventional Morality
37. Where are genes carried?
Diaphragm
Peer group
On chromosomes
Ivan Pavlov
38. Who argued that classical conditioning explains some behaviors - but operant conditioning plays a much larger role?
Sympathetic nervous system
Gestures
Contraception
B.F. Skinner
39. What is: the most developed - and largest (80%) - part of the brain?
Chomsky
Cerebral palsy
Cerebral cortex
Divergent thinkers
40. What side of the N/N debate means that all children are first good; believe it is the way they are brought up that affects personality and actions?
Nurture
Dyscalcula
Half (23)
90%
41. What is: your thoughts - beliefs - attitudes - and values
Closure
Modeling
Mental health
Id - Ego - Super Ego
42. What is: the theory based on biology; belief that behavior and personality are linked to genetics
Homophobia
RU-486
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
Biological
43. What is the variable that the experimenter controls?
Vestibular sense
Visual cliff
Stage 2
Independent variable
44. What is: the way the brain organizes and gives meaning to information provided by the senses?
Positive reinforcer
Perception
Hospice
Automatic
45. What are: vibrations in the air that we receive through the ear to be processed?
Sound waves
Denial
Frequency
Bound morpheme
46. Stage in which a person makes decisions according to his or her conscience; the universal ethical principal orientation; not many people ever reach this stage
1 & 2
Extinction
Stage 6
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
47. What is the name for the awareness of external and internal events?
Cerebral cortex
Consciousness
Perception
Mainstreaming
48. What is a common learning disability in reading?
Egocentrism
Dyslexia
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Independent variable
49. Fourth stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'There's nothing I can do about this'
Gender
Wear-and-Tear Theory
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
Preparatory Depression
50. A method of modifying behavior - by ignoring the behavior so you don't have the response
Response extinction
Olfactory sense
Telegraphic speech
Gestalt psychology