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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. What are areas in a baby's skull where cartilage hasn't yet hardened into bone?
Sound waves
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
School-age Child
Fontanels
2. What is: method of contraception by having no direct contact with partner's genitals?
Abstinence
Random assignment
3-7
Reaction Formation
3. What is the ability to identify correctly something encountered before?
Convergent thinking
Dependent variable
Recognition
Alfred Binet
4. Where nursing care is given meant to maximize the quality of life for someone who is dying
Critical period
Obstetrician-gynecologist
Hospice
10-14 months
5. What is the part of the ear that includes the oval window - cochlea - and organ of Corti?
Inner ear
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
Brain and spinal cord
Six months
6. What is: the gland that controls release of hormones from the gonads?
9-15
Pituitary gland
Cross-modal perception
Peer group
7. What is: the most developed - and largest (80%) - part of the brain?
Chomsky
Lewis Terman
Cerebral cortex
Dependent variable
8. A reinforcer that is physical (tangible) or from the environment - like payment for work - or a prize
Norplant
Extrinsic reinforcer
Echolalia
Egocentrism
9. Stage in which whether you will be punished or not determines what is moral or not - also called the punishment and obiedience phase
Increase
Stage 1
Abstinence
Olfactory sense
10. When one variable increase - another variable increases. We call this a what?
Long labors or birth complications
Subject
Positive Correlation
Hour of love
11. Level 1 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development
Alfred Binet
Inner ear
Preconventional Morality
Self-efficacy
12. What do doctors agree is the best way to feed babies?
Correlational research
Egocentric behavior
Breast-feeding
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
13. Defense mechanism: feelings are redirected to someone else
Hospice
The penis doesn't grow and breasts may develop.
Displacement
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
14. Babies are rewarded with food/attention with they say 'mama' etc - so they continue to say those words and learn new ones; what idea does this theory follow?
Parallel play
Hypokinetic diseases
Operant conditioning
They were not scientifically performed
15. Defense mechanism: Turning a feeling into the exact opposite feeling
Mostly developed by the time of birth
Reaction Formation
Correlation coefficient
Fluid intelligence
16. What is the most dangerous trimester for the fetus (in regard to drug/alcohol use)?
Self-esteem
First trimester
Three percent
Frequency
17. What does the right half of the brain control?
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
Selera
B.F. Skinner
Maslow
18. Applied when a test measures something more than one facet
Content validity
Crystallized intelligence
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Gender conservation
19. We smell when airborne molecules of an odor reach tiny receptor cells in the top of the nasal cavity; what is the name of this receptor area?
Olfactory epithelium
Cerebral cortex
Kibbutz
Preconventional Morality
20. Self-aware - recognized - defined
Amniocentesis
Independent variable
Phonemes
Self-concept
21. Defense mechanism in which complete rejection of the feeling or situation
Midwife
Reciprocal determinism
4-9
Denial
22. What is the most extreme outcome of a woman drinking during her pregnancy?
Informed consent
Gradually through shaping
Resilient child
Fetal death
23. What is: a person's attraction to other people?
Sexual orientation
Cognitive theorist
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
Binocular cues
24. Who believed that children's thinking doesn't develop smoothly - but instead certain points where it 'takes off' and transitions into new areas?
Peer group
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Mode
Jean Piaget
25. Who conducted a longitudinal study of smart kids - resulting that they become happy adults?
Best friend
Psychological maltreatment
Lewis Terman
Increase
26. What is the sense that gives information about balance and body movement? (if your body is moving - tilting - etc.)
Vestibular sense
Six months
Functionalism
Extrinsic reinforcer
27. Which part of the ANS is the arousing part of the system?
Sympathetic nervous system
Babbling
Laboratory observation
Inner ear
28. Self-esteem begins forming in:
Babbling
On chromosomes
Carl Rogers
Middle childhood
29. 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
Carl Rogers
Longitudinal Study
Babbling
Amniocentesis
30. What is the name for the bundles of axons - used to communicate between the two halves of brain?
Commissures
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
Longitudinal fissure
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
31. What is the name for the 'crack' in the middle of the brain halves?
Miscarriages or stillbirths
Extinction
Longitudinal fissure
Young Adult
32. What is: term used to describe a person's belief that they can perform a task successfully?
Gonads
Positive Correlation
Self-efficacy
Strong correlation
33. What is the transparent part in the front of the eye?
Self-actualization
Middle childhood
Lens
Zygote
34. The most direct measure of syntax in middle childhood is what?
Noise
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
35. 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?
Young-old
Anger (Emotion)
Divergent thinking
Chomsky
36. What is: structures in the cerebral cortex related to memory and emotion?
Morality of Care
Spermicides
Limbic system
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
37. If a mother catches rubella in first trimester - what is the chance that the fetus is affected?
90%
Stage 6
John Watson
Accommodation
38. A set of cases of people randomly chosen from a large group to represent that large group
Displacement
Gerontology
Family practitioner
Sampling
39. Stage in which a person abides by the law because they think that law is a higher order; laws cannot be broken under any circumstance; social-order-maintaining orientation
Mendel
9-15
Extinction
Stage 4
40. What is: the difference made to one's mind by the process of assimilation?
Depth perception
Lewis Terman
Personality
Accommodation
41. What are the two directions of growth in the embryo?
Norplant
Correlation coefficient
Autonomic Nervous System
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
42. What is: your thoughts - beliefs - attitudes - and values
Natural prepared childbirth
Olfactory epithelium
Thalamus
Mental health
43. What is: the ear's interpretation of a sound's frequency
23 pairs
Family therapy
Pitch
Miscarriages or stillbirths
44. Age at which most children will identify specific 'best-friends'
10
Babbling
Timbre
Emotional health
45. By the time they reach middle childhood - most girls will identify with one and only one _______.
90%
Auditory System
Sexually transmitted diseases
Best friend
46. Types of child play in chronological order:
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
Hypothalamus
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
Abstinence
47. Who believed that the unconscious motivates our actions - through the id - ego - and superego?
Hour of love
Mendel
Freud
Outer ear
48. What is: an experienced practitioner who can attend pregnancies and deliveries?
Midwife
Social learning theory
Natural observation
None!!
49. Who created the first scientific psychology laboratory?
Wilhelm Wundt
Fetal death
Zone of Proximal Development
The Premack Principle
50. Extension of 'actions speak louder than words' in behavior; follow others' examples despite their words.
Cornea
Social learning theory
Frequency
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
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