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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 types of teratogens?
Ageism
Heterosexual
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
50%
2. What thought process characterizes creative - gifted - or advanced children?
Accommodation
10
Divergent thinkers
Norplant
3. A morpheme that must be w/ a word
Bound morpheme
Psychoanalytical
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
Zone of Proximal Development
4. Stage in which you do what is right in order to gain status or approval from other people or society; 'good boy-good girl' orientation
Watching their parents
Stage 3
Proximodistal
Adolescent Egocentrism
5. Categories of old age: 75-84
Pituitary gland
Middle-old
Gonads
Iris
6. Infants develop a secure attachment when parents pay attention to and respond to a child's needs. What theory includes this statement?
Psychoanalytic theory
Organ of corti
Three percent
Corpus callosum
7. Who created the first scientific psychology laboratory?
Preconventional Morality
Wilhelm Wundt
The penis doesn't grow and breasts may develop.
Spermicides
8. What is: the method to prevent an egg and sperm from being able to access each other?
Schema
Cognitive
Contraception
Conception
9. Which lobe is related to vision?
23 pairs
First trimester
Depo-Provera
Occipital lobe
10. What is the ability to identify correctly something encountered before?
Recognition
Crystallized intelligence
Neonate
Preconventional Morality
11. What are the four areas of taste that taste-buds recognize?
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
Figurative language
Classical conditioning
Gilligan
12. What is: the tone color or perceptual quality of a sound?
Cerebral palsy
Timbre
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
Cerebellum
13. What is: located in the limbic system - with primary function to store memories?
Hippocampus
Cognitive improvement
Old Age
Gene
14. Which thought process is a creative process?
Experimental group and control group
Divergent thinking
Safety
Hurried-child
15. How do you fix the problem of mother's cells attacking the baby's?
Regression
Modeling
Positive reinforcer
Injections
16. If a mother catches rubella in first trimester - what is the chance that the fetus is affected?
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
90%
John Watson
Dialectical perspective
17. There are usually two groups in an experiment - titled:
Adrenal glands
Experimental group and control group
Mental health
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
18. When one variable increases while another variable decreases. We call this a what?
Negative Correlation
Humanistic Theorists
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
B.F. Skinner
19. What is: the process by which a person takes material into their mind from the environment - which may mean changing sensory evidence to make it fit?
90%
Assimilation
Papillae
Hollow phrases
20. Whatmakes a person able to see objects are they are - in 3 dimensions?
Gentle birth
Old-old
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
Depth perception
21. Where a group of people live together and the children of all the people are raised by one or two people
Hollow phrases
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Kibbutz
Hospice
22. Theory that language abilities devlop innately; there must be some mechanism in the brain which aids in language acquisition; who came up with this theory?
Chomsky
Natural prepared childbirth
Organ of corti
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying
23. What is: the theory centered on behavior; see person as blank slate upon which impressions of experiences can be recorded.
Sampling
Behavioral
Amniocentesis
Recall
24. What is: the theory to investigate the elements or 'structures' of the mind; classify structures and focus on conscious thought
Negative Correlation
Structuralism
Vygotsky
Ageism
25. What is the medical term for birth of a dead baby?
Negative reinforcer
Stillbirth
Hollow phrases
Sound waves
26. Which part of the ANS is the arousing part of the system?
ADHD
Sympathetic nervous system
Toddler
Behavioral
27. What is the characteristic that: you fill in areas that we do not have complete information about?
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
Psychiatrist
Creative
Contraception
28. The average of a data set
Brain and spinal cord
Rubella
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Mean
29. What is: your sense of being a man or woman as defined by society?
Teratogens
Inner ear
Gender
Dura mater
30. What is: long lasting contraceptive where six capsules are injected in a woman's arm?
Dizygotic twins
Denial (Shock)
Norplant
Autism
31. What is: the process of working something out in your head; shows the difference between young children (act and try things out) and older (can do things in their heads)
Inner ear
Base of the skull; size of a pea
Operation
Biological
32. What is another term for the system of hearing?
Autoerotic behavior
Auditory System
The more accurate the result
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
33. What is: the type of thought related to numerical and intellectual puzzles--with both quick & creative responses?
Fluid intelligence
Peer group
Dyslexia
Personality
34. Biological theories of aging: the number of cells that have problems or mutations that increase w/ age
Teratogens
Stage 1
Gender identity
Genetic Mutation
35. Parenting styles: respects individually - but tries to instill social values
Longitudinal Study
Stage 1
Authoritative
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
36. First element to Vygotsky's theory: what does social interaction facilitate?
Longitudinal Study
Nurture
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
Cognitive improvement
37. What is: relating new information to something familiar
Response extinction
Timbre
Elaboration
Sexual identity
38. What are the four components of psychosocial health?
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Wilhelm Wundt
No correlation
Homosexual
39. Believed each person had an idea of a 'perfect person' and tried to work towards being like that person as much as possible - believing that people needed to become 'fully functioning' individuals
Informed consent
Naturalistic observation
Carl Rogers
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
40. Cultural bias not generally known across all subcultures
Psychometrics
Intestate
The right hand - right eye - and speech
Pia mater
41. Stages of friendship: one way assistance
John Watson
None!!
4-9
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
42. What most-extreme fate does syphillis often cause in infants?
Lewis Terman
Condom
Gonads
Miscarriages or stillbirths
43. What is: term for how much someone values and respects themselves?
Short attention span
Chomsky
Outer ear
Self-esteem
44. The name most associated with operant conditioning is who?
Mostly developed by the time of birth
B.F. Skinner
Self-esteem
...
45. What is: term used to describe a person's belief that they can perform a task successfully?
Self-efficacy
Natural observation
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
Ageism
46. What is: when adolescents truly believe themselves to be the center of the universe to those around them?
Bargaining
The brain/the cerebral cortex
Adolescent Egocentrism
Sexually transmitted diseases
47. Defense mechanism: feelings are redirected to someone else
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Displacement
Gradually through shaping
48. What is: a period in a child's development in which he/she is capable of understanding some things but not others
Olfactory epithelium
Stage
Preparatory Depression
True
49. First step in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs such as food water and shelter
Physical needs
Chomsky
Classical conditioning
Homophobia
50. When a participant fills out a survey themselves about themselves
Self-report data
Dizygotic twins
Pituitary gland
Homophobia