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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology

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1. Means that the participants must know the content of the experiment and be warned of any risk or harm






2. What is the chance of having a boy or girl - according to Mendel's experiments in genetics?






3. Why isn't an IQ test a good indicator for children over long periods of time?






4. What is: attraction to the opposite sex?






5. Aside from learning disabilities - what physical problem do Kleinfelter people have?

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6. What is the middle number in a set of data called?






7. What is the name for depth perception cues made with both eyes?






8. What is the method to find the amount that one variable changes in relation to another?






9. What is the term for fraternal twins?






10. What system is made up of the hypothalamus and other glands?






11. What is the opening of the iris - which looks black?






12. What syndrome is characterized by small stature - poor coordination - hyperactive - learning disabilities - mental retardation - or large head?






13. What are the two parts responsible for bending light and focusing it in the back of the eye?






14. A term used to describe something similar in structure or organization






15. Parenting styles: makes few demands - hardly ever punishes






16. Dying w/o a will






17. What is the name for the bundles of axons - used to communicate between the two halves of brain?






18. 1 + 5 + 6. What is the mean?






19. Method that teaches children to realized their full potential.






20. What are: the harmful substances to a developing fetus?






21. Who taught women breathing procedures to get through childbirth - including panting?






22. 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






23. Which part of the ANS is the calming part of the system?






24. The distortion of the results






25. Contains the psychic content related to the primitive instincts of the body - notably sex and aggression - functioning entirely according to the pleasure-pain principle - seeking either immediate fulfillment or settling for a compromise fulfillment






26. What does the right half of the brain control?






27. What is: attraction to both sexes?






28. How much is hearing developed in neonates?






29. What is: the most developed - and largest (80%) - part of the brain?






30. What is the least developed part of a newborn (growth is not complete)?






31. What is the ability to identify correctly something encountered before?






32. Read pages 22-25 for charts: Piaget's Stages of Development and Freud's Psychosexual Stages






33. What are the four lobes of the brain?






34. Which stage of development is: Industry vs. Inferiority? (working with others)






35. A child that is always in a hurry






36. Who conducted a longitudinal study of smart kids - resulting that they become happy adults?






37. Defense mechanism: a type of displacement - a redirection of the feeling into a socially productive activity






38. When a researcher observes and studies subjects w/o interacting or interfering w/ them






39. Defense mechanism: hiding the feelings and not acknowledging them






40. What is: located in the limbic system - with primary function to store memories?






41. First element to Vygotsky's theory: what does social interaction facilitate?






42. What is: a permanent facility control done through surgical procedures?






43. Biological theories of aging: like everything else in the world - the human body wears out






44. Those who are mentally retarded are least likely to also have WHAT condition?






45. What is a fertilized ovum or egg?






46. By the time they reach middle childhood - most girls will identify with one and only one _______.






47. What is: T-shaped device implanted in uterus by a physician for five to ten years at a time?






48. Which though process is follower thinking?






49. Rogers and Maslow are both:






50. What is: the ability to associate something from one area of knowledge - and use that to determine or imagine what it is like in other aspects?