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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. Failure to thrive is caused by:
Displacement
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
Divergent thinking
Emotional neglect
2. Defined as diseases which are either related to or caused by a sedentary lifestyle - in other words - caused by the lack of regular exercise or activity
Perception
Hypokinetic diseases
Gradually through shaping
Natural prepared childbirth
3. Recent research supports that children learn from listening to their parents talk to them in 'baby talk'; which aspect of language is this?
Rite of Passage
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
Social aspect of language
Organ of corti
4. Time at which most children begin to speak actual words
Selera
10-14 months
First trimester
Nurture
5. What is the simple type of learning for getting used to something?
Contextual
Habituation
Fontanels
Organ of corti
6. A set of cases of people randomly chosen from a large group to represent that large group
Adolescent
Peer group
Sampling
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
7. When is anoxia a problem in births?
Social learning theory
90%
Long labors or birth complications
Mental health
8. Who introduced the scientific method?
The brain/the cerebral cortex
Stage 5
Longitudinal fissure
Francis Bacon--16th century
9. What is the perception characteristic that: if you have heard a movie is scary - you might be more inclined to get scared?
Monocular cues
Accommodation
Contextual
Crystallized intelligence
10. Where a group of people live together and the children of all the people are raised by one or two people
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
Hurried-child
Ethics
Kibbutz
11. Parenting styles: respects individually - but tries to instill social values
Echolalia
Authoritative
Closure
Authoritarian
12. What is: expression of your maleness or femaleness on a daily basis?
Gender identity
Preschooler
Gender roles
Sexually transmitted diseases
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.
Erik Erikson
Cross-modal perception
Babbling
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
14. What do physicians recommend to prevent SIDS?
Celibacy
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
Kibbutz
Abortion
15. How much is hearing developed in neonates?
Syphillis and rubella
Phonemes
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
Mostly developed by the time of birth
16. What is the term for: a child's understanding that once you leave the room - you are not gone forever - etc.?
Norplant
Object permanence
3
Figurative language
17. What percentage of children are affected by hyperactivity?
Three percent
Breast-feeding
Prenatal development
School-age Child
18. Which stage of development is: Ego Integrity vs. Despair? (what they have done with their life)
As they age
Old Age
Alfred Binet
Explicit role instruction
19. Which lobe is related to hearing?
Half (23)
Temporal lobe
Selera
Crystallized intelligence
20. Stages of friendship: Momentary playmates
A will
Occipital lobe
Binocular cues
3-7
21. Level 2 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
Around age two
Random assignment
3 & 4
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
22. Who created structuralism?
Wilhelm Wundt
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
Six months
Positive reinforcer
23. First element to Vygotsky's theory: what does social interaction facilitate?
Young-old
Cognitive improvement
Ivan Pavlov
Raymond Cattell
24. Which stage of development is: Trust vs. Mistrust?
Infant
Iris
Adolescent Egocentrism
Experimental group and control group
25. The negative effects of sensory deprivation (not as much attention) are more likely to _______ w/ the length of the stage.
Hypokinetic diseases
Injections
Recognition
Increase
26. What do endocrine glands do?
Experimental research
Babbling
Create and release chemicals into the blood
Condom
27. Individual sounds w/ in a word
Hippocampus
Phonemes
Deferred imitation
Kohlberg
28. Which stage of development is: Industry vs. Inferiority? (working with others)
Crystallized intelligence
School-age Child
Clinical psychologist
Childhood depression
29. Age at which most children will identify specific 'best-friends'
10
Response extinction
Survey
Figurative language
30. Categories of old age: 85+
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Reciprocal determinism
Old-old
Cross Sectional Study
31. Who believed that children's thinking doesn't develop smoothly - but instead certain points where it 'takes off' and transitions into new areas?
Jean Piaget
Vestibular sense
Selera
The penis doesn't grow and breasts may develop.
32. What is the main difference between classical and operant conditioning?
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Recall
Informed consent
Autoerotic behavior
33. When a participant fills out a survey themselves about themselves
Family therapy
Self-report data
Suppression
Breast-feeding
34. Who was the psychoanalyst who documented stages of emotional growth in regards to babies?
Erik Erikson
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Developmental norm
Adolescent
35. The first experiment of classical conditioning was done by who?
Ivan Pavlov
No
Preparatory Depression
William James
36. What is the name for minimum amount of something we can detect or sense?
Absolute threshold
Rationalization
Experimental research
Object permanence
37. What is the clear membrane in front of the eye that protects it?
Infertility
Cornea
Bias
Daydreaming
38. A lower number of the correlation coefficient - closer to the number zero shows a:
Weak correlation
Egocentrism
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Pitch
39. What are the three different areas of the Autonomic Nervous System?
Morphemes
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Lewis Terman
Depo-Provera
40. The scientific study of words and sentences
5
Classification
Semantics
Cut in half
41. What syndrome occurs when someone two X and one Y chromosome...and what gender does this make?
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
42. What is: another form of consciousness involving very little effort; dreaming while awake or letting the mind wander?
Cerebrospinal fluid
Recall
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Daydreaming
43. What is: not being involved in a sexual relationship?
Corpus callosum
Accommodation
Sexual identity
Celibacy
44. Where nursing care is given meant to maximize the quality of life for someone who is dying
Hippocampus
Hospice
The Montessori Method
5
45. What is the chance of a baby having PKU?
1 in 14 -000
Daydreaming
Lens
B.F. Skinner
46. According to both Kohlberg and Piaget - the most immature reason to do something is to:
Loudness
Automatic
Response extinction
Avoid punishment
47. What is: the representation in the mind of a set of perceptions - ideas - and actions - which go together
Schema
Toxic shock syndrome
Mainstreaming
Projection
48. Who made the first IQ test?
Physical needs
The brain stem
Alfred Binet
Intrinsic reinforcer
49. Aside from learning disabilities - what physical problem do Kleinfelter people have?
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50. Defense mechanism: transferring your thoughts and feelings onto others
Infants were placed on a solid - opaque surface - and the mothers were placed at the end of the table - where the opaque ended and glass begun. The infants didn't want to cross the glass because they could see the distance between themselves and the
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
Dyslexia
Projection