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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology

Subjects : dsst, psychology
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1. What is: the amount of pressure produced by a sound wave - measured in decibels?






2. What are the four layers that protect the brain?






3. What is the most extreme outcome of a woman drinking during her pregnancy?






4. What is the characteristic that: you fill in areas that we do not have complete information about?






5. What is a sometimes-fatal disease occuring from the excessive use of tampons - or leaving a diaphragm in - for longer than prescribed time?






6. Theory by Bandura; the interaction of a person's personality - the environment - and the behavior.






7. True or False: Kohlberg believed that you go through each step of moral development one @ a time and could not skip them.






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






9. What is: areas of the body which - when touched - lead to sexual arousal?






10. Who argued that if psychology was a true science - then psychologists should only study what they could see and measure (behaviorist theory)?






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






12. If a mother catches rubella in first trimester - what is the chance that the fetus is affected?






13. What is: relating new information to something familiar






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

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15. A communication style in which single words are used to communicate - typical of toddlers learning to speak - for example 'give' or 'mama'. The meaning is still understood even though complete sentences are not used






16. Why did studies used by Piaget and Freud lead to wrong conclusions?






17. A system which uses operant conditioning to make less probable actions more likely to occur by using more probable actions as reinforcers






18. What is: the realization that objects stay the same even when they are made to look different?






19. Parenting styles: respects individually - but tries to instill social values






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






21. Chomsky believed that the ability to develop language skills was inherited in ______.






22. What is: the ear's interpretation of a sound's frequency






23. Recent research supports that children learn from listening to their parents talk to them in 'baby talk'; which aspect of language is this?






24. Removing something unpleasant from a situation - to make a behavior more likely






25. The distortion of the results






26. Defense mechanism: Turning a feeling into the exact opposite feeling






27. Which receptor is more sensitive to light - but is not used to view color?






28. Applied when a test measures something more than one facet






29. Dying w/o a will






30. Does a gamete (reproductive) cell have full or half set of chromosomes?






31. What is the simple type of learning for getting used to something?






32. A child that is always in a hurry






33. Who introduced the scientific method?






34. All other variables w/in an experiment that researchers do not have control over






35. Which lobe is related to vision?






36. What are: drugs taken within three days to prevent pregnancy from instances such as no protection - or a broken condom?






37. What is: the number of full wavelengths that pass through a point in a given amount of time






38. What is: a person's attraction to other people?






39. A set of cases of people randomly chosen from a large group to represent that large group






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






41. Who argued that classical conditioning explains some behaviors - but operant conditioning plays a much larger role?






42. Level 2 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages






43. Theory that every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first between people - then inside the child.






44. 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?






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






46. What section of the nervous system is responsible for the 'fight or flight' response?






47. Not physical abuse but when the child feels rejected or feels failure






48. What is: the belief that you are the center of the universe and everything revolves around you - and the inability to see the world as someone else does and adapt to it.






49. What is the rating system to judge a baby's functionality when first born?






50. 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