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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. How can parents avoid down syndrome in their children?
Create and release chemicals into the blood
Chomsky
Kibbutz
Conceive at younger ages
2. A type of conditioning in which a person associates an action with a consequence
Sympathetic nervous system
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
Operant Conditioning
Dyscalcula
3. A correlation coefficient of zero
Best friend
Norplant
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
No correlation
4. What is a sometimes-fatal disease occuring from the excessive use of tampons - or leaving a diaphragm in - for longer than prescribed time?
Toxic shock syndrome
Intestate
Women - men
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
5. Stage in which you see the right action as what satisfies your personal needs; a person becomes aware of two different viewpoints
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
Iris
Stage 2
A census
6. Stage in which a person is concerned w/ how their action might affect society; the social contract orientation
Stage 5
Monocular cues
Perception
Sexually transmitted diseases
7. Whatmakes a person able to see objects are they are - in 3 dimensions?
5 & 6
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Negative Correlation
Depth perception
8. What is the part in the back of the eye that includes receptors called rods and cones?
Corpus callosum
Cross-modal perception
Retina
Injections
9. What is: when adolescents truly believe themselves to be the center of the universe to those around them?
Adolescent Egocentrism
Corpus callosum
Gestures
Toddler
10. Defense mechanism: a type of displacement - a redirection of the feeling into a socially productive activity
Longitudinal fissure
Accommodation
Sublimation
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
11. Experiment where researchers made a baby afraid of rats through classical conditioning
Babbling
Baby Albert
Behaviorism
Self-report data
12. What is: the theory centered on behavior; see person as blank slate upon which impressions of experiences can be recorded.
Behavioral
Class inclusion
Gestalt psychology
Psychological Tests
13. Which thought process is: many ideas are brainstormed to explore many possible solutions; used in creative settings?
Homosexual
Divergent thinking
Frequency
Morphemes
14. In children babbling begins around age _____ - while in deaf infants babbling usually begins around several months later
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
Six or seven months
Recognition
None!!
15. Which though process is follower thinking?
Convergent thinking
Cerebral palsy
Stage 6
The brain/the cerebral cortex
16. How much are the eyes developed in newborns?
Selective
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
The penis doesn't grow and breasts may develop.
17. A lower number of the correlation coefficient - closer to the number zero shows a:
9-15
Echolalia
Weak correlation
Dependent variable
18. When does language development begin?
Six months
B.F. Skinner
On chromosomes
5 & 6
19. Something used to make a behavior less likely to occur - can be positive or negative
Gonads
Denial
Valid
Punishment
20. Who proposed fluid/crystallized intelligence?
Morphemes
Cornea
Raymond Cattell
Down syndrome
21. What gland releases hormones that regulate hormone secretions of other glands?
The brain/the cerebral cortex
Cornea
Retina
Pituitary gland
22. Which lobe is related to hearing?
Sexually transmitted diseases
10-14 months
Short attention span
Temporal lobe
23. Second development of language - still pre-speech; repetition of meaningful sounds
Babbling
9-15
Family therapy
Independent variable
24. What is: where the lens changes its curves to help the eye focus?
Response extinction
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
Accommodation
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
25. Something pleasant used to make a behavior more likely
Stage 5
First trimester
23 pairs
Positive reinforcer
26. When a participant starts to feel the effects of the drug but is actually taking a sugar pill or placebo
Abstinence
Placebo effect
Social aspect of language
Obstetrician-gynecologist
27. 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?
Outer ear
Bias
Nurture
1 & 2
28. What is the name for the two halves of the brain?
Lewis Terman
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Depo-Provera
Cerebrum
29. In a kibbutz - the real parents of children may see them for one hour a day - a time referred to as the __________.
Hour of love
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
Middle ear
Watching their parents
30. Imitation of a past-observed behavior
The right hand - right eye - and speech
Watching their parents
Full (46)
Deferred imitation
31. A morpheme that can be a word on its own
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Midwife
Ferdinand Lamaze
Free morpheme
32. What are the factors that influence psychosocial health?
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Dependent variable
Naturalistic observation
Recall
33. Theory by Bandura; the interaction of a person's personality - the environment - and the behavior.
Outer ear
Sexually transmitted diseases
Medicated delivery
Reciprocal determinism
34. A higher number of the correlation coefficient closer to the number one shows a:
Strong correlation
Cerebellum
Preparatory Depression
Gender
35. What is the main symptom of hyperactivity?
Short attention span
Hypothalamus
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
Humanistic Theorists
36. What is a learning disability in math - where concepts are learned one day and forgotten the next?
6-12
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Dyscalcula
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
37. States that infants need to form at least one strong attachment such as to a parent - in order to develop normally
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38. What is: sheath of thin latex designed to catch sperm upon ejaculation?
Condom
Sublimation
Cross-modal perception
Social learning theory
39. What is: the theory based on biology; belief that behavior and personality are linked to genetics
B.F. Skinner
Biological
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
40. 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
Childhood depression
Holophrase syntax
Best friend
Hour of love
41. What is: T-shaped device implanted in uterus by a physician for five to ten years at a time?
Noise
IUD
Depth perception
Rods
42. When do children develop object permanence?
Deferred imitation
Around age two
Gender conservation
Egocentrism
43. When a researcher observes and studies subjects w/o interacting or interfering w/ them
Adrenal glands
Placebo effect
Emotional neglect
Naturalistic observation
44. Visible signs of aging include:
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45. What is a common learning disability in reading?
Cornea
Dyslexia
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
A census
46. What is: the type of thought related to numerical and intellectual puzzles--with both quick & creative responses?
Preconventional Morality
Fluid intelligence
Medicated delivery
On chromosomes
47. 1 -3 -4 -5 -7 -8 -10 what is the median?
Psychological maltreatment
5
The Premack Principle
Abstinence
48. What are areas in a baby's skull where cartilage hasn't yet hardened into bone?
Self-efficacy
Hour of love
Fontanels
Qualitative
49. By the time they reach middle childhood - most girls will identify with one and only one _______.
Operant conditioning
Best friend
Syphillis and rubella
Automatic
50. What are the different types of caregivers for pregnancy?
Autonomic Nervous System
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Parasympathetic