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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. What is: the amount of pressure produced by a sound wave - measured in decibels?
Iris
Amplitude
Cross Sectional Study
Structuralism
2. What are the four layers that protect the brain?
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
Multiple caretakers
Cognitive improvement
Monocular cues
3. What is the most extreme outcome of a woman drinking during her pregnancy?
Fetal death
Young Adult
Psychiatrist
Cerebellum
4. What is the characteristic that: you fill in areas that we do not have complete information about?
Creative
Developmental norm
Wear-and-Tear Theory
Preparatory Depression
5. 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
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
Ethics
Alzheimer's Disease
6. Theory by Bandura; the interaction of a person's personality - the environment - and the behavior.
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Content validity
Gentle birth
Reciprocal determinism
7. True or False: Kohlberg believed that you go through each step of moral development one @ a time and could not skip them.
True
A census
Mendel
Gonads
8. What is the middle number in a set of data called?
Median
Prenatal development
Rods
Pituitary gland
9. What is: areas of the body which - when touched - lead to sexual arousal?
Displacement
Erogenous zones
Neonate
10-14 months
10. Who argued that if psychology was a true science - then psychologists should only study what they could see and measure (behaviorist theory)?
John Watson
Median
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
Cellular Theory
11. What is the ability to identify correctly something encountered before?
Recognition
Mendel
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
Social development or social cognition
12. If a mother catches rubella in first trimester - what is the chance that the fetus is affected?
Emotional health
90%
Neonate
Stage 5
13. What is: relating new information to something familiar
12+
Gender
Elaboration
Olfactory epithelium
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
Timbre
Parasympathetic
Nature
Holophrase syntax
16. Why did studies used by Piaget and Freud lead to wrong conclusions?
Temporal lobe
Psychiatrist
Punishment
They were not scientifically performed
17. A system which uses operant conditioning to make less probable actions more likely to occur by using more probable actions as reinforcers
Visual cliff
Clinical psychologist
Midwife
The Premack Principle
18. What is: the realization that objects stay the same even when they are made to look different?
Conservation
Breast-feeding
Six or seven months
Fetal death
19. Parenting styles: respects individually - but tries to instill social values
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Authoritative
Echolalia
20. What is the chance of having a boy or girl - according to Mendel's experiments in genetics?
Toxic shock syndrome
90%
Invincibility fable
50%
21. Chomsky believed that the ability to develop language skills was inherited in ______.
Genes
Adolescent
Autonomic Nervous System
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
22. What is: the ear's interpretation of a sound's frequency
Mean
School-age Child
Miscarriages or stillbirths
Pitch
23. Recent research supports that children learn from listening to their parents talk to them in 'baby talk'; which aspect of language is this?
Self-concept
Social aspect of language
Strong correlation
Commissures
24. Removing something unpleasant from a situation - to make a behavior more likely
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
Negative reinforcer
Around age two
Psychoanalytical
25. The distortion of the results
Bias
Developmental norm
Extinction
Self-report data
26. Defense mechanism: Turning a feeling into the exact opposite feeling
Rationalization
Stage 2
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
Reaction Formation
27. Which receptor is more sensitive to light - but is not used to view color?
Rods
Regression
Recognition
Sympathetic nervous system
28. Applied when a test measures something more than one facet
Content validity
Psychological maltreatment
Teratology
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
29. Dying w/o a will
The Montessori Method
Psychometrics
Operant conditioning
Intestate
30. Does a gamete (reproductive) cell have full or half set of chromosomes?
Half (23)
Raymond Cattell
Cognitive theorist
Convergent thinking
31. What is the simple type of learning for getting used to something?
The brain/the cerebral cortex
Hypothalamus
Neonate
Habituation
32. A child that is always in a hurry
23 pairs
Hurried-child
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Half (23)
33. Who introduced the scientific method?
Id - Ego - Super Ego
Wear-and-Tear Theory
Francis Bacon--16th century
As soon as the bell was rung
34. All other variables w/in an experiment that researchers do not have control over
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying
Set high standards - assist along the way
Dependent variable
35. Which lobe is related to vision?
Stage
Prenatal development
Adolescent Egocentrism
Occipital lobe
36. What are: drugs taken within three days to prevent pregnancy from instances such as no protection - or a broken condom?
B.F. Skinner
Emergency contraception
Frequency
Short attention span
37. What is: the number of full wavelengths that pass through a point in a given amount of time
Convergent thinking
Frequency
Gerontology
Regression
38. What is: a person's attraction to other people?
Classification
Wilhelm Wundt
Perception
Sexual orientation
39. A set of cases of people randomly chosen from a large group to represent that large group
Toxic shock syndrome
Automatic
Sampling
Maslow
40. What is: the most developed - and largest (80%) - part of the brain?
Kibbutz
Parallel play
Mentally retarded
Cerebral cortex
41. Who argued that classical conditioning explains some behaviors - but operant conditioning plays a much larger role?
B.F. Skinner
Free morpheme
3-7
Egocentric behavior
42. Level 2 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
The cerebrum
3 & 4
Gender role stereotypes
Pituitary gland
43. Theory that every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first between people - then inside the child.
Adolescent Egocentrism
Social development or social cognition
Classical conditioning
Obstetrician-gynecologist
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?
Midwife
Olfactory epithelium
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
Invincibility fable
45. Who taught women breathing procedures to get through childbirth - including panting?
Condom
Ferdinand Lamaze
Permissive
Critical period
46. What section of the nervous system is responsible for the 'fight or flight' response?
Ivan Pavlov
Autonomic Nervous System
Self-efficacy
Autoerotic behavior
47. Not physical abuse but when the child feels rejected or feels failure
Pons
Pia mater
10
Psychological maltreatment
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.
Egocentrism
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
Cross Sectional Study
3-7
49. What is the rating system to judge a baby's functionality when first born?
Double blind
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
Divergent thinkers
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
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
Kibbutz
Free morpheme
Cognitive
Carl Rogers