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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. 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?
4
Positive Correlation
Assimilation
Watching their parents
2. What is the conception alternative where semen is deposited into the body via a thin tube?
Correlational research
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
IUD
William James
3. In a study - the researchers have direct control over this variable
Independent variable
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
Middle-old
4. Who argued that if psychology was a true science - then psychologists should only study what they could see and measure (behaviorist theory)?
Family therapy
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Middle childhood
John Watson
5. What is: the method to prevent an egg and sperm from being able to access each other?
ADHD
Contraception
Down syndrome
Stage 2
6. What section of the nervous system is responsible for the 'fight or flight' response?
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Bound morpheme
Self-report data
Autonomic Nervous System
7. What is: the gland that controls release of hormones from the gonads?
Pituitary gland
Retina
Bound morpheme
5
8. Defense mechanism: transferring your thoughts and feelings onto others
Denial (Shock)
Projection
4-9
Emotional neglect
9. First element to Vygotsky's theory: what does social interaction facilitate?
Cognitive improvement
Recall
Cerebral palsy
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
10. Stereotypes in genders; boys play with trucks and girls wear makeup - etc.
Dependent variable
Object permanence
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
Explicit role instruction
11. How does the pupil work?
Sexual identity
5 & 6
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
Diaphragm
12. Who believed that children's thinking doesn't develop smoothly - but instead certain points where it 'takes off' and transitions into new areas?
Midwife
Cerebrospinal fluid
Hypokinetic diseases
Jean Piaget
13. Gilligan believed that ________ conflicted between self and other - while ________ conflicted between self and justice
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Women - men
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
Celibacy
14. What is the transparent part in the front of the eye?
1 in 14 -000
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Lens
Self-efficacy
15. What is: the part of the ear inside the cochlea; contains sensors that change energy into impulses to be decoded by the brain?
Wilhelm Wundt
Increase
Organ of corti
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
16. What is: a statistical measure of typical scores for categories of information?
Absolute threshold
Adrenal glands
Parasympathetic
Developmental norm
17. What percent of children in kindergarten are immunized?
Injections
99%
Kibbutz
Genetic Mutation
18. John Bowlby felt that attachment held evolutionary purpose. Explain
Nature
Retina
The infant wants to be in proximity of the person who cares for them as a form of self-preservation. If a child feels that their caregiver is nearby and attentive - they feel confident to explore their surroundings. If not - they feel anxious and ove
Reaction Formation
19. What is the ability to identify correctly something encountered before?
Divergent thinkers
Celibacy
Babbling
Recognition
20. Types of child play in chronological order:
Amplitude
Condom
Middle-age Adult
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
21. The awareness of being a male or female
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
Gender identity
6-12
Structuralism
22. What is the name for the awareness of external and internal events?
Social health
Binocular cues
Suppression
Consciousness
23. Which stage of development is: Industry vs. Inferiority? (working with others)
Crystallized intelligence
Recognition
Behaviorism
School-age Child
24. The scientific study of words and sentences
Mean
Cut in half
Semantics
Classification
25. All senses report to the thalamus except for one--which?
Smell
Babbling
Medicated delivery
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
26. Something pleasant used to make a behavior more likely
Positive reinforcer
Neonate
Correlational research
Stage 3
27. Removing something unpleasant from a situation - to make a behavior more likely
Sterilization
Negative reinforcer
Hospice
Longitudinal Study
28. Why is self-report data not as reliable as other research methods?
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Divergent thinkers
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
Resilient child
29. What is: the amount of pressure produced by a sound wave - measured in decibels?
Amplitude
Heterosexual
Dialectical perspective
Subject
30. Which thought process is: many ideas are brainstormed to explore many possible solutions; used in creative settings?
Rubella
Occipital lobe
Wear-and-Tear Theory
Divergent thinking
31. Anything which makes a behavior more likely to occur
Reinforcer
4
Lewis Terman
Divergent thinking
32. When do the two fontanels harden?
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33. What is the approach that assumes people organize their perceptions by patterns?
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
Longitudinal Study
Gestalt psychology
Morality of Justice
34. Deaf children will often be more proficient at communicating through _______ than do hearing infants - often being able to sign at ten months old
Gestures
Hollow phrases
Retina
Five
35. What is: growth from the center (spine) outward - where vital organs form before the extremities?
Toddler
Proximodistal
Avoid punishment
Three percent
36. What is the middle number in a set of data called?
Family practitioner
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Median
37. What is the chance of having a boy or girl - according to Mendel's experiments in genetics?
Lens
50%
Emotional neglect
Autoerotic behavior
38. What 4 main problems do fetal alcohol syndrome cause?
Intrinsic reinforcer
Independent variable
Absolute threshold
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
39. Theory by Bandura; the interaction of a person's personality - the environment - and the behavior.
Babbling
Injections
Cooing
Reciprocal determinism
40. What is the rating system to judge a baby's functionality when first born?
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Dependent variable
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
41. When one variable increases while another variable decreases. We call this a what?
Homosexual
Autonomic Nervous System
Lens
Negative Correlation
42. What is: the fluid filled structure in the inner ear that looks like a snail?
Morality of Care
Middle ear
Cesarean birth
Cochlea
43. What is the main difference between classical and operant conditioning?
As soon as the bell was rung
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Selective
Developmental norm
44. The number which occurs the most often
Rationalization
Cellular Theory
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
Mode
45. In a case study - a single individual called a _____ is intensely studied
Osteoporosis
Subject
Hurried-child
Fetal tobacco syndrome
46. What determines physical traits and is inherited from one or both parents?
Deferred imitation
Stage 3
Gene
Outer ear
47. A baby repeating what you just said
Free morpheme
Cognitive theorist
Gestures
Echolalia
48. What are the two directions of growth in the embryo?
Stage 1
Family practitioner
Infant
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
49. A correlation coefficient of zero
Behaviorism
Francis Bacon--16th century
No correlation
Ivan Pavlov
50. When does language development begin?
Morality of Care
John Watson
Abstinence
Six months