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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. The number which occurs the most often
Quantitative
Mode
School-age Child
Phonemes
2. How can parents avoid down syndrome in their children?
Cooing
Conceive at younger ages
Consciousness
23 pairs
3. Anything which makes a behavior more likely to occur
1 & 2
Socialization
Social health
Reinforcer
4. Stage at which children are egocentric and will therefore think divorce is their fault
Middle-age Adult
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
Id - Ego - Super Ego
5. What is the medical term for birth of a dead baby?
Stillbirth
Perception
Accommodation
Gonads
6. What is the variable that the experiment is trying to test?
Olfactory sense
Dependent variable
Raymond Cattell
Negative Correlation
7. What are the five areas of Apgar Rating - with scores of 0-2 in each?
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
Classical conditioning
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
8. What regulates internal temperature - eating - sleeping - drinking - emotions - and sexual activity?
Creative
Figurative language
Hypothalamus
ADHD
9. What is: the realization that objects stay the same even when they are made to look different?
Conservation
Structuralism
Nature
Cerebral palsy
10. Where is the pituitary gland located - and how big is it?
Base of the skull; size of a pea
50%
Monocular cues
Proximodistal
11. The negative effects of sensory deprivation (not as much attention) are more likely to _______ w/ the length of the stage.
Increase
Autoimmune Theory
Peer group
Limbic system
12. Which lobe is related to hearing?
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
Cephalocaudal
Temporal lobe
Increase
13. What thought process is supported by the example that: infants are given an object to hold - and then can recognize by sight the object.
Cross-modal perception
William James
Parallel play
John Watson
14. A person who uses ______ has a stated position - but also acknowledges that it may change over time.
Dialectical perspective
Sexual identity
Wilhelm Wundt
50%
15. 1 -3 -4 -5 -7 -8 -10 what is the median?
The brain/the cerebral cortex
Temporal lobe
5
Cellular Theory
16. What is: not being involved in a sexual relationship?
Celibacy
50%
Family therapy
Fit in
17. What side of the N/N debate means that all children are first good; believe it is the way they are brought up that affects personality and actions?
Daydreaming
Monozygotic twins
Nurture
Alzheimer's Disease
18. Who did the study between stimulus and response with dogs; and what did he discover?
Erik Erikson
Stage 5
Pavlov; classical conditioning
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
19. Who believed that children's thinking doesn't develop smoothly - but instead certain points where it 'takes off' and transitions into new areas?
Autoerotic behavior
School-age Child
Conception
Jean Piaget
20. What is: growth from the head downward (head develops before rest of the body)?
Accommodation
Mostly developed by the time of birth
Francis Bacon--16th century
Cephalocaudal
21. Deaf children will often be more proficient at communicating through _______ than do hearing infants - often being able to sign at ten months old
Gestures
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
A census
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
22. What is: a person's attraction to other people?
Sexual orientation
Cognitive theorist
Babbling
Negative reinforcer
23. What system is made up of the hypothalamus and other glands?
Endocrine system
As they age
Vestibular sense
Emotional health
24. What is the chance of having a boy or girl - according to Mendel's experiments in genetics?
Cross-modal perception
Hollow phrases
True
50%
25. One's wishes for the distribution of one's property and possessions after death
A will
23 pairs
Class inclusion
Qualitative
26. What is the perception characteristic that: you don't have to think about it for it to happen?
As soon as the bell was rung
Self-actualization
Content validity
Automatic
27. Where nursing care is given meant to maximize the quality of life for someone who is dying
Cognitive improvement
Fetal death
Pitch
Hospice
28. What are: the principles and standards of behavior - including morals; right/wrong and having one's actions correlate with their beliefs
Ethics
Holophrase syntax
The more accurate the result
Alzheimer's Disease
29. What do children in early language development not understand?
Celibacy
Nature
Figurative language
Medicated delivery
30. Defense mechanism: feelings are redirected to someone else
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Displacement
Survey
Naturalistic observation
31. When a participant starts to feel the effects of the drug but is actually taking a sugar pill or placebo
Placebo effect
Cognitive improvement
Dyslexia
Mental health
32. What is: when the mother consumes alcohol while her babies are in the womb?
Developmental norm
Baby Albert
Ferdinand Lamaze
Fetal alcohol syndrome
33. List the levels (in order) of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Behavioral
Social learning theory
9-15
34. After how many cigarettes will the fetus definitely have problems--with a 50% greater risk of childhood cancer?
Five
The brain/the cerebral cortex
Cross Sectional Study
Humanistic
35. What is: the method to prevent an egg and sperm from being able to access each other?
Contraception
Phonemes
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Peer group
36. A higher number of the correlation coefficient closer to the number one shows a:
Rubella
Strong correlation
Binocular cues
Androgynous
37. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz will often:
Object permanence
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Personality
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
38. What determines physical traits and is inherited from one or both parents?
Gene
Positive Correlation
Selective attention
Sexually transmitted diseases
39. When do the two fontanels harden?
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40. Whatmakes a person able to see objects are they are - in 3 dimensions?
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
School-age Child
Projection
Depth perception
41. Biological theories of aging: the number of cells that have problems or mutations that increase w/ age
Genetic Mutation
Emotional health
Teratogens
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
42. Defense mechanism: Turning a feeling into the exact opposite feeling
Correlational research
Id - Ego - Super Ego
Hospice
Reaction Formation
43. What is: a statistical measure of typical scores for categories of information?
Experimental research
Psychological maltreatment
Operant Conditioning
Developmental norm
44. The repetition of certain syllables
Psychiatrist
Babbling
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Noise
45. When something from conditioning carries over to another related area; made baby Albert afraid of all furry animals - rather than just rats
Natural prepared childbirth
Denial (Shock)
Strong correlation
Stimulus generalization
46. 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?
Around age two
Emotional neglect
Assimilation
Longitudinal fissure
47. How does the pupil work?
Stage 3
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
Iris
48. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs consists of which steps?
Rubella
Biological
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Ethics
49. 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?
Sigmund Freud
The cloth monkey
Chomsky
Toxic shock syndrome
50. Dying w/o a will
Cornea and lens
Intestate
Cerebral palsy
Papillae