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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. What is the name for the two halves of the brain?
Automatic
The cerebrum
Cerebrum
Divergent thinking
2. What is being able to reproduce knowledge from memory?
1 in 14 -000
Miscarriages or stillbirths
Divergent thinking
Recall
3. John Bowlby felt that attachment held evolutionary purpose. Explain
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Young-old
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
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
4. What is the method of surgical delivery?
Cesarean birth
Hippocampus
Young Adult
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
5. What is the middle number in a set of data called?
5 & 6
Median
Three percent
Content validity
6. Believing women followed a different progression than men - she called the moral progression of the woman what?
Morality of Care
Informed consent
6
Biological
7. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz are used to study the effects of what?
Bandura
Injections
Positive Correlation
Multiple caretakers
8. Imitation of a past-observed behavior
Absolute threshold
50%
Deferred imitation
Morality of Care
9. Parenting styles: makes few demands - hardly ever punishes
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
Permissive
Smell
10. What system is made up of the hypothalamus and other glands?
Safety
Endocrine system
4
Intestate
11. Did a longitudinal study that showed that smart kids are happy adults
Rite of Passage
Middle childhood
9-15
Lewis Terman
12. What is the ability to identify correctly something encountered before?
Recognition
Crystallized intelligence
Olfactory epithelium
They were not scientifically performed
13. The repetition of certain syllables
Longitudinal fissure
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
Babbling
Fluid intelligence
14. Fourth development of language
Object permanence
Behavioral
Telegraphic speech
Binocular cues
15. What is the perception characteristic that: if you have heard a movie is scary - you might be more inclined to get scared?
Contextual
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
Breast-feeding
Olfactory sense
16. Which stage of development is: Industry vs. Inferiority? (working with others)
Semantics
School-age Child
Cones
Holophrase syntax
17. A number between +1 and -1 that measures the strength between two variables
Correlation coefficient
Gender roles
Dialectical perspective
Organ of corti
18. An environment where children live and attend school
Psychological Tests
Independent variable
Sigmund Freud
Peer group
19. The ethical component of the personality and provides the moral standards by which the ego operates
Super Ego
Wilhelm Wundt
True
Watching their parents
20. What is a specific period in development when a certain event has the greatest impact? (For example - a certain period of time when a young bird can learn to fly)
Critical period
Semantics
Middle-age Adult
Teratology
21. What is the term for low IQ and mental age of about 4 years old?
Harry Harlow
Zone of Proximal Development
Longitudinal Study
Mentally retarded
22. What are the factors that influence psychosocial health?
Rite of Passage
6-12
Multiple caretakers
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
23. What is: the process of working something out in your head; shows the difference between young children (act and try things out) and older (can do things in their heads)
Dizygotic twins
Operation
Abstinence
Middle-age Adult
24. How is IQ calculated?
Multiple caretakers
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
RU-486
25. Stage in which a person is concerned w/ how their action might affect society; the social contract orientation
Stage 5
Auditory System
Hospice
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
26. What is the clear membrane in front of the eye that protects it?
Hypokinetic diseases
Dyscalcula
Cornea
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
27. Second element: The presence of someone who knows more in an area - like a parent - teacher - coach - etc.?
Best friend
Multiple caretakers
Parasympathetic
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
28. Stage in which a person makes decisions according to his or her conscience; the universal ethical principal orientation; not many people ever reach this stage
Increase
Behavioral
Social learning theory
Stage 6
29. The awareness of being a male or female
True
Commissures
Amplitude
Gender identity
30. Pavlovs famous classical conditioning dog experiment.
Informed consent
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Semantics
31. What is the name of the scientist known as the father of genetics and inheritance?
Mendel
Babbling
Endocrine system
Egocentric behavior
32. Sigmund Freud's analysis of human personality and subconscious drives features three main components including:
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Acceptance
Id - Ego - Super Ego
4-9
33. Where a group of people live together and the children of all the people are raised by one or two people
Kibbutz
Structuralism
Genes
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
34. What is a common learning disability in reading?
Free morpheme
Hour of love
Dyslexia
Homosexual
35. What is caused by one extra chromosome in the number 21?
Down syndrome
Stage 4
Elaboration
Divergent thinking
36. Which lobe is related to voluntary muscles and intelligence?
Rh positive
Explicit role instruction
Frontal lobe
Recognition
37. 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?
Corpus callosum
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Chomsky
Cognitive theorist
38. Level 3 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
Pavlov; classical conditioning
5 & 6
Reinforcer
The brain stem
39. Categories of old age: 85+
Emotional health
William James
Old-old
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
40. First development of language; pre-speech
Cooing
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Morality of Justice
Nurture
41. What types of drugs can hurt a developing fetus if taken by the mother?
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
Anger (Emotion)
Zygote
Dependent variable
42. Why did studies used by Piaget and Freud lead to wrong conclusions?
They were not scientifically performed
Parasympathetic
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
The cerebrum
43. Who believed that the unconscious motivates our actions - through the id - ego - and superego?
Freud
Heterosexual
Cerebrospinal fluid
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
44. The study of the aging process
Natural observation
Sterilization
Pons
Gerontology
45. What is the most extreme outcome of a woman drinking during her pregnancy?
Weak correlation
Babbling
Five
Fetal death
46. What is the name for minimum amount of something we can detect or sense?
Denial
Creative
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Absolute threshold
47. What is the thought process that considers an idea or belief (thesis) and acknowledges the idea's opposite (antithesis)?
Divergent thinking
Condom
Dialectical perspective
Create and release chemicals into the blood
48. What is: any pill designed to prevent pregnancy?
Oral contraceptives
Valid
Pia mater
Cut in half
49. What fluid covers the brain - and is used to transport chemicals and regulate pressure?
Preparatory Depression
Limbic system
Cerebrospinal fluid
Middle-age Adult
50. A system which uses operant conditioning to make less probable actions more likely to occur by using more probable actions as reinforcers
Medicated delivery
The Premack Principle
Id - Ego - Super Ego
Cerebellum