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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology

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1. Did a longitudinal study that showed that smart kids are happy adults
Longitudinal Study
Fetal death
Lewis Terman
Constant

2. What are areas in a baby's skull where cartilage hasn't yet hardened into bone?
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Fontanels
Biological
Emergency contraception

3. What is: hatred and fear of homosexuals?
Homophobia
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
Parietal lobe
Hospice

4. If you are A positive blood - what is that in terms of Rh factor?
Closure
Bargaining
Rh positive
Random assignment

5. The repetition of certain syllables
Babbling
Thalamus
Morphemes
Sublimation

6. What houses memories and controls our responses to different sensory signals?
Longitudinal fissure
Stimulus generalization
The cerebrum
Creative

7. Id - Ego - and Super Ego were all founded by who?
Self-actualization
Sigmund Freud
1 in 14 -000
Mode

8. Why did studies used by Piaget and Freud lead to wrong conclusions?
They were not scientifically performed
Cephalocaudal
Create and release chemicals into the blood
Valid

9. How much are the eyes developed in newborns?
Francis Bacon--16th century
On chromosomes
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
Old-old

10. What is: a mix of gender identity - gender roles - and orientation; recognition of ourselves as sexual beings.
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
Sexual identity
Selective
Parietal lobe

11. Stages of friendship: one way assistance
Infertility
Denial
4-9
Gradually through shaping

12. All senses report to the thalamus except for one--which?
Sampling
Sigmund Freud
Smell
Syphillis and rubella

13. What is the term for the death of a child under one year - for no apparent reason?
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
On chromosomes
Clinical psychologist
Cross-modal perception

14. Third element: There is a gap between what the child can do with help - and what they can do on their own; shows when a child has finally learned it
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
Fluid intelligence
Zone of Proximal Development
Mental health

15. What glands affect the mood - energy level - and stress?
No
Anger (Emotion)
Stimulus generalization
Adrenal glands

16. How is ADHD diagnosed?
Rite of Passage
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
Structuralism
Stage 6

17. What is: relating new information to something familiar
Class inclusion
First trimester
Elaboration
Six months

18. What do doctors agree is the best way to feed babies?
Breast-feeding
Double blind
Operant conditioning
RU-486

19. The process of unassociating the condition with the response
Infant
Survey
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
Extinction

20. Third stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'If you don't die I will do the following...'
Wilhelm Wundt
Bargaining
Self-esteem
Dependent variable

21. What is the transparent part in the front of the eye?
Lens
Clinical psychologist
Sexual orientation
Sigmund Freud

22. What are the four components of psychosocial health?
Longitudinal Study
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Fontanels
Convergent thinking

23. What is: attraction to the opposite sex?
Heterosexual
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
No
Accommodation

24. What are the four layers that protect the brain?
Recall
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
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
Independent variable

25. What are the two directions of growth in the embryo?
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Longitudinal fissure
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell

26. What are the four stages of sexual response?
Cellular Theory
Cornea and lens
Pons
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases

27. Who developed the theory of social development?
Convergent thinking
Vygotsky
Social learning theory
Cognitive improvement

28. A method of modifying behavior - by ignoring the behavior so you don't have the response
Harry Harlow
Permissive
Response extinction
Epinephrine and norepinephrine

29. Usually has a doctoral degree in psychology plus an internship; cannot prescribe medicine.
Dependent variable
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Clinical psychologist
1 & 2

30. What is: growth from the center (spine) outward - where vital organs form before the extremities?
Proximodistal
Pituitary gland
Frontal lobe
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative

31. Who first coined self-efficacy?
Bandura
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Limbic system
Self-actualization

32. The distortion of the results
Cross-modal perception
Toxic shock syndrome
Bias
Spermicides

33. What attention disorders also interfere with the learning process?
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Autoimmune Theory
Ethics
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence

34. 1 + 5 + 6. What is the mean?
Operation
4
Papillae
Convergent thinking

35. Gilligan believed that Kholberg's theory described the male progression which she called the what?
Wear-and-Tear Theory
Pupil
Morality of Justice
Recall

36. Why does a gamete have a half set of chromosomes?
Adolescent
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
Free morpheme
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.

37. Defense mechanism: Turning a feeling into the exact opposite feeling
Recognition
Gentle birth
Survey
Reaction Formation

38. The name most associated with operant conditioning is who?
Loudness
Stage 2
B.F. Skinner
Toxic shock syndrome

39. How many PAIRS of chromosomes do body cells have?
Mode
23 pairs
Psychoanalytical
Dura mater

40. How is IQ calculated?
Denial (Shock)
Pavlov; classical conditioning
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100

41. What is the thought process that considers an idea or belief (thesis) and acknowledges the idea's opposite (antithesis)?
Intestate
Dialectical perspective
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
Social learning theory

42. List the levels (in order) of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development
Contextual
Chomsky
Cross Sectional Study
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional

43. The final stage of Maslow's Hierarchy of needs. A stage you may never actually meet.
Phonemes
Self-actualization
Sexual identity
Oral contraceptives

44. Who proposed fluid/crystallized intelligence?
Hypothalamus
Morphemes
Contextual
Raymond Cattell

45. Which lobe is related to vision?
Raymond Cattell
Corpus callosum
Adrenal glands
Occipital lobe

46. Four steps of the scientific method include:
Mental health
Cochlea
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
On chromosomes

47. When people are followed and studied over a long period of time and checked up on at certain points
Longitudinal Study
Semantics
Psychiatrist
Syphillis and rubella

48. When a participant starts to feel the effects of the drug but is actually taking a sugar pill or placebo
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
Self-concept
Androgynous
Placebo effect

49. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz will often:
Social health
William James
Social learning theory
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth

50. Level 3 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
Commissures
Permissive
5 & 6
Correlational research