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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A reinforcer that is physical (tangible) or from the environment - like payment for work - or a prize
Super Ego
Extrinsic reinforcer
Sexual identity
Dialectical perspective
2. What are the three different types of teratogens?
Middle-old
Diaphragm
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
Hollow phrases
3. Second stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'This is unfair. Why me?'
Mentally retarded
Middle-age Adult
Conservation
Anger (Emotion)
4. What is: hatred and fear of homosexuals?
Homophobia
5 & 6
Freud
Erogenous zones
5. The name most associated with operant conditioning is who?
B.F. Skinner
Operant conditioning
Midwife
Babbling
6. What is: sheath of thin latex designed to catch sperm upon ejaculation?
Condom
Schema
Self-report data
Dependent variable
7. What is: a statistical measure of typical scores for categories of information?
Developmental norm
Dyscalcula
Heterosexual
On chromosomes
8. Categories of old age: 75-84
Three
Cerebral anoxia
Middle-old
Correlation Research
9. What is: the difference made to one's mind by the process of assimilation?
A will
Accommodation
Auditory System
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
10. A term used in research used to describe something measurable usually expressed as a number
Experimental research
Selera
Quantitative
Permissive
11. Which stage of development is: Trust vs. Mistrust?
Cross-modal perception
Denial (Shock)
Homosexual
Infant
12. What is the conception alternative where fertilization of the egg is done outside the body - and then transferred back into the body?
In vitro fertilization
Full (46)
Id
Depth perception
13. What is: attraction to the same sex?
Extinction
Homosexual
Correlation Research
Young-old
14. The smallest unit of a word which has meaning - may be bound or free
Morphemes
Positive reinforcer
Cerebral palsy
Endocrine system
15. Age at which most children will identify specific 'best-friends'
9-15
Classification
10
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
16. What is a fertilized ovum or egg?
1 in 14 -000
Monozygotic twins
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
Zygote
17. What is the name for the two halves of the brain?
Sympathetic nervous system
Cerebrum
Gonads
Cerebellum
18. What is the name for depth perception cues made with one eye?
Mode
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Rods
Monocular cues
19. What is the characteristic that: you fill in areas that we do not have complete information about?
Creative
Stage 6
Monocular cues
Five
20. Which thought process is a creative process?
Gender role stereotypes
Divergent thinking
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Parallel play
21. Who developed the theory of social development?
Dura mater
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
Vygotsky
Cognitive
22. 1 + 5 + 6. What is the mean?
4
William James
Mainstreaming
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
23. When people of different ages are studied at one particular time
Operant conditioning
Abortion
Cross Sectional Study
The brain
24. The negative effects of sensory deprivation (not as much attention) are more likely to _______ w/ the length of the stage.
Preschooler
Increase
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
Reciprocal determinism
25. How does the pupil work?
Dura mater
Self-efficacy
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
Explicit role instruction
26. Age at with children start feeling a fear of the dark - which can be strong and appear suddenly
Resilient child
Selective
6
Adrenal glands
27. What is being able to reproduce knowledge from memory?
Recall
Social development or social cognition
Harry Harlow
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
28. What is the characteristic that: you may be more interested in a person - rather than what she is saying?
Operant conditioning
Selective
Medicated delivery
Pituitary gland
29. John Bowlby felt that attachment held evolutionary purpose. Explain
Conservation
Create and release chemicals into the blood
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
Parasympathetic
30. Method that teaches children to realized their full potential.
Suppression
Ethics
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
The Montessori Method
31. Who proposed fluid/crystallized intelligence?
Spermicides
The Premack Principle
Raymond Cattell
Dyscalcula
32. Which lobe is related to body sensations?
Proximodistal
Parietal lobe
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
Content validity
33. What is the term for oxygen deficiency to the brain?
Schema
Cerebral anoxia
Displacement
Monozygotic twins
34. What are: vibrations in the air that we receive through the ear to be processed?
Selective attention
Sound waves
Babbling
Echolalia
35. Third stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'If you don't die I will do the following...'
Family practitioner
Social health
Prenatal development
Bargaining
36. In the Harlow experiment: between the wire monkey+bottle - and cloth monkey+no bottle - which fake mother did the babies prefer?
Stage
Gestalt psychology
Emergency contraception
The cloth monkey
37. Not physical abuse but when the child feels rejected or feels failure
In vitro fertilization
Psychological maltreatment
Peer group
Sublimation
38. Stage in which you see the right action as what satisfies your personal needs; a person becomes aware of two different viewpoints
Cross-modal perception
Stage 6
Stage 2
Emergency contraception
39. What is: a child (especially preschool age) doesn't take into consideration other people's needs--their perceptions are limited to their own point of view
Classical conditioning
Egocentric behavior
Operant conditioning
23 pairs
40. A correlation coefficient of zero
No correlation
Loudness
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
Reinforcer
41. What is: the elated feeling adolescents have - that they are immune to risks - mortality and probability; false sense of security thinking they will never fall or get caught.
Invincibility fable
True
Social learning theory
Psychoanalytic theory
42. The repetition of certain syllables
Nurture
Toddler
Schema
Babbling
43. What is: generalizations about each gender - such as that men are aggressive and logical - and women are nurturing and emotional
Family therapy
Gender role stereotypes
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
Dependent variable
44. Which part of the ANS is the arousing part of the system?
Habituation
Sympathetic nervous system
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Proximodistal
45. What is: the theory centered on behavior; see person as blank slate upon which impressions of experiences can be recorded.
Behavioral
Permissive
4-9
Stage 6
46. What is: attraction to the opposite sex?
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
Heterosexual
Medicated delivery
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
47. What is: your feelings and reactions
Conception
Psychometrics
Genetic Mutation
Emotional health
48. Disagreed w/ Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development because his subjects were mainly male
Naturalistic observation
Informed consent
Gilligan
Classical conditioning
49. Who argued that if psychology was a true science - then psychologists should only study what they could see and measure (behaviorist theory)?
As soon as the bell was rung
School-age Child
John Watson
Dizygotic twins
50. What is: term used to describe a person's belief that they can perform a task successfully?
Mean
Self-efficacy
Sexual identity
Behaviorism