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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. A way of obtaining information about a specific type of information in which questionnaires are given out to participants who are then asked to answer the questions to the best of their ability
9-15
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
Kohlberg
Survey
2. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs consists of which steps?
Esteem needs
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Commissures
50%
3. What is the term for lack of responsiveness to other people?
Autism
Operant conditioning
The brain stem
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
4. What is: sheath of thin latex designed to catch sperm upon ejaculation?
Lens
Mendel
Condom
Cut in half
5. What is a learning disability in math - where concepts are learned one day and forgotten the next?
Gender
Recognition
Dyscalcula
Abortion
6. Applied when a test measures something more than one facet
Median
Cerebral palsy
Content validity
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
7. What is: the ability to group objects together on the basis of common features?
Toddler
Classification
Alzheimer's Disease
The cerebrum
8. What is: the theory focused on the individual's unconscious motivations?
Psychoanalytical
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Placebo effect
9. A set of cases of people randomly chosen from a large group to represent that large group
Hollow phrases
Rationalization
Sampling
Gonads
10. The integrator between the outer and inner worlds - as well as the id and the superego. Gives continuity and consistency to behavior by providing a personal point of reference - which relates to the events of the past and actions of the present and o
Ego
Correlational research
Chomsky
Rubella
11. What is the part in the back of the eye that includes receptors called rods and cones?
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Retina
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
Classification
12. The smallest unit of a word which has meaning - may be bound or free
Morphemes
The penis doesn't grow and breasts may develop.
Sympathetic nervous system
Syphillis and rubella
13. Therapy that involves the whole family
Family therapy
Divergent thinkers
Organ of corti
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
14. What is: a person's attraction to other people?
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
23 pairs
Quantitative
Sexual orientation
15. A morpheme that can be a word on its own
Free morpheme
4-9
Negative reinforcer
Mostly developed by the time of birth
16. The first experiment of classical conditioning was done by who?
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
The cerebrum
Ivan Pavlov
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
17. A collection of data from all cases or people in the chosen set
Parasympathetic
A census
Old Age
Nurture
18. What houses memories and controls our responses to different sensory signals?
In vitro fertilization
They were not scientifically performed
Cerebral anoxia
The cerebrum
19. The number which occurs the most often
William James
Mode
Mean
Wilhelm Wundt
20. Parenting styles: 'because I say so'--more prevalent in lower-class families
Elaboration
Selera
Dependent variable
Authoritarian
21. Third development of language
Operant conditioning
Hollow phrases
Bandura
Stage 3
22. What is the method of surgical delivery?
Recognition
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Cesarean birth
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
23. What is the main symptom of hyperactivity?
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
Kibbutz
Short attention span
Watching their parents
24. When one variable increases while another variable decreases. We call this a what?
Timbre
Negative Correlation
Telegraphic speech
Morality of Justice
25. How is IQ calculated?
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
Weak correlation
Cerebral cortex
Gene
26. What is: method of contraception by having no direct contact with partner's genitals?
Schema
Abstinence
School-age Child
Gene
27. The distortion of the results
Bias
Cerebrum
Object permanence
Five
28. What is the name for the two halves of the brain?
Stage
Cerebrum
Watching their parents
Emotional health
29. Defense mechanism: feelings are redirected to someone else
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Developmental norm
Displacement
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
30. Who was the psychoanalyst who documented stages of emotional growth in regards to babies?
Carl Rogers
Erik Erikson
Intestate
Recognition
31. What is: the ear's interpretation of a sound's frequency
Divergent thinkers
Pitch
Sterilization
6-12
32. Cultural bias not generally known across all subcultures
Psychometrics
The brain
Maslow
Informed consent
33. Who created the first scientific psychology laboratory?
Stage 2
Endocrine system
Wilhelm Wundt
Negative reinforcer
34. Who created structuralism?
Mostly developed by the time of birth
Wilhelm Wundt
Rubella
Cochlea
35. If a test measures what is meant to measure it is considered what?
Valid
Operant conditioning
First trimester
A census
36. Method that teaches children to realized their full potential.
Smell
Psychological maltreatment
Baby Albert
The Montessori Method
37. What is: hatred and fear of homosexuals?
Three
Explicit role instruction
Jean Piaget
Homophobia
38. Gilligan believed that Kholberg's theory described the male progression which she called the what?
Morality of Justice
Cross Sectional Study
Cerebrospinal fluid
Middle-old
39. What is: attraction to the opposite sex?
Self-report data
Heterosexual
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
40. 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
Rubella
Classical conditioning
Stage 4
Short attention span
41. What is the scientific name for the sense of smell?
Heterosexual
Olfactory sense
Psychometrics
Independent variable
42. What most-extreme fate does syphillis often cause in infants?
The right hand - right eye - and speech
Hippocampus
Miscarriages or stillbirths
Socialization
43. Stage in which whether you will be punished or not determines what is moral or not - also called the punishment and obiedience phase
Phonemes
Mode
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Stage 1
44. What is: the theory to investigate the elements or 'structures' of the mind; classify structures and focus on conscious thought
On chromosomes
Structuralism
Monocular cues
Negative Correlation
45. When is anoxia a problem in births?
Ethics
Long labors or birth complications
Autoerotic behavior
Behavioral
46. Categories of old age: 75-84
School-age Child
Brain and spinal cord
William James
Middle-old
47. All senses report to the thalamus except for one--which?
Diaphragm
Smell
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
Selera
48. Stereotypes in genders; boys play with trucks and girls wear makeup - etc.
Brain and spinal cord
Explicit role instruction
Spiritual health
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
49. The ethical component of the personality and provides the moral standards by which the ego operates
Super Ego
Bargaining
Francis Bacon--16th century
Puberty
50. What is the perception characteristic that: you don't have to think about it for it to happen?
Rationalization
Automatic
Extinction
Acceptance