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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Which stage of development is: Trust vs. Mistrust?
Daydreaming
Gradually through shaping
23 pairs
Infant
2. What is: the understanding of more advanced classification; that some sets are also sub-sets of a larger class?
Depo-Provera
Retina
Class inclusion
Avoid punishment
3. The repetition of certain syllables
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
Base of the skull; size of a pea
Babbling
Depth perception
4. What is: dynamic blend of our experiences - heredity - environment - etc. which determines how we react to problems/issues?
Personality
Cochlea
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
Regression
5. What are the three things to monitor - to measure temperament in infants?
Pitch
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Weak correlation
Neonate
6. Which stage of development is: Initiative vs. Guilt? (trying different roles)
Stage 1
Intrinsic reinforcer
Preschooler
Cerebrospinal fluid
7. Removing something unpleasant from a situation - to make a behavior more likely
Negative reinforcer
Naturalistic observation
Sympathetic nervous system
Fetal tobacco syndrome
8. What is: the representation in the mind of a set of perceptions - ideas - and actions - which go together
Oral contraceptives
Breast-feeding
Six months
Schema
9. Defense mechanism: feelings are redirected to someone else
Midwife
Hurried-child
William James
Displacement
10. Which stage of development is: Ego Integrity vs. Despair? (what they have done with their life)
Old Age
Cross-modal perception
Projection
Cooing
11. What is: a state of mental balance - reconciling new experiences with new understanding
Teratogens
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
Gerontology
Equilibrium
12. What regulates internal temperature - eating - sleeping - drinking - emotions - and sexual activity?
Thalamus
Social development or social cognition
Gender identity
Hypothalamus
13. When a participant fills out a survey themselves about themselves
Infant
School-age Child
Self-report data
Recognition
14. Children are most likely to achieve if parents:
Set high standards - assist along the way
Avoid punishment
Old Age
Self-report data
15. What is: relating new information to something familiar
Daydreaming
Dependent variable
Elaboration
Puberty
16. The final stage of Maslow's Hierarchy of needs. A stage you may never actually meet.
Recall
Self-actualization
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
Androgynous
17. Second stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'This is unfair. Why me?'
Anger (Emotion)
Cesarean birth
Erik Erikson
Rubella
18. Self-esteem begins forming in:
Parietal lobe
Middle childhood
Correlational research
Cornea
19. What is the variable that the experiment is trying to test?
Dependent variable
Selective
Behaviorism
Telegraphic speech
20. What is: an M.D. who provides comprehensive care for people of all ages?
Constant
Family practitioner
Outer ear
Stage 1
21. What is: the study of substances which are harmful to prenatal development?
Extinction
Retina
Teratology
No
22. What is: the elated feeling adolescents have - that they are immune to risks - mortality and probability; false sense of security thinking they will never fall or get caught.
Invincibility fable
Punishment
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
23. What kind of problem can it cause when a husband and wife have different blood types?
24. What is the main relay station for incoming sensory signals to the cerebral cortex - and outgoing motor signals from it?
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
Thalamus
Morality of Justice
John Watson
25. What is the name of the scientist known as the father of genetics and inheritance?
Mendel
In vitro fertilization
Belonging and love
99%
26. People who are working that experience discrimination because of their age - whether too young or too old are victims of what?
Ageism
Figurative language
5 & 6
Strong correlation
27. A correlation coefficient of zero
Mendel
Childhood depression
Behaviorism
No correlation
28. Anything which makes a behavior more likely to occur
Psychometrics
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Reinforcer
50%
29. What are: the harmful substances to a developing fetus?
Naturalistic observation
Egocentric behavior
Negative Correlation
Teratogens
30. What is: irrelevant stimuli that compete for our attention (like traffic)
Noise
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Kibbutz
Functionalism
31. Second step in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Safety
Cesarean birth
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
32. Who proposed fluid/crystallized intelligence?
Socialization
1 in 14 -000
Raymond Cattell
Freud
33. The negative effects of sensory deprivation (not as much attention) are more likely to _______ w/ the length of the stage.
Increase
Dialectical perspective
Schema
Selera
34. When someone sees an incomplete form - they fill in the pieces and perceive it as it would be that way. What Gestalt principle is this an example of?
Closure
Selera
Temporal lobe
Loudness
35. In a study - the researchers have direct control over this variable
Resilient child
Super Ego
Infertility
Independent variable
36. First step in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs such as food water and shelter
Class inclusion
Independent variable
Ageism
Physical needs
37. What is: the fluid filled structure in the inner ear that looks like a snail?
Cochlea
Olfactory epithelium
Psychometrics
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
38. What is: the type of thought related to numerical and intellectual puzzles--with both quick & creative responses?
Genetic Mutation
Prenatal development
Gestures
Fluid intelligence
39. What are the three parts of memory?
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
Hypothalamus
Cerebral anoxia
Hypokinetic diseases
40. Third step in Maslow's Hierarchy of needs in which you may want to meet needs of belongings and love through relationships
Middle ear
Belonging and love
Gender identity
Stage 4
41. Means that the participants must know the content of the experiment and be warned of any risk or harm
Hippocampus
Selective
Informed consent
Ivan Pavlov
42. Teaches that when a certain action is performed - there are consequences--reinforces good behavior with extrinsic/intrinsic reinforcers
Cerebrospinal fluid
Operant conditioning
Experimental group and control group
Peer group
43. What is: when adolescents truly believe themselves to be the center of the universe to those around them?
Women - men
Acceptance
Stage 3
Adolescent Egocentrism
44. 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
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Toxic shock syndrome
Nature vs. nurture
45. What are the three different areas of the Autonomic Nervous System?
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Creative
Quantitative
46. What is the term for identical twins?
Monozygotic twins
Thalamus
Hour of love
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
47. What is: the method to prevent an egg and sperm from being able to access each other?
Binocular cues
Semantics
Contraception
Pons
48. The average of a data set
As they age
4-9
Mean
Outer ear
49. What is the name of the largest commissure?
Echolalia
Wear-and-Tear Theory
Temporal lobe
Corpus callosum
50. How many different theories of language development are there?
Three
Obstetrician-gynecologist
The cerebrum
Rh positive