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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. Which receptor is used for color vision?
As they age
Resilient child
Self-esteem
Cones
2. What is: structures in the cerebral cortex related to memory and emotion?
Limbic system
Organ of corti
Osteoporosis
Clinical psychologist
3. Second step in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Safety
Constant
Freud
Fluid intelligence
4. Who created structuralism?
Alzheimer's Disease
Multiple caretakers
Wilhelm Wundt
Class inclusion
5. What is: the debate between whether a child is born a bad seed--with whatever disposition/tastes/personality they were meant to have; or that a child is born good - with their upbringing affecting their later personality and actions.
Nature vs. nurture
Echolalia
A census
Lens
6. When a participant fills out a survey themselves about themselves
Babbling
Informed consent
Self-report data
Old-old
7. A signal to society that certain rules have changed - this person is no longer a child
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
Frequency
Rite of Passage
Quantitative
8. What is: the way the brain organizes and gives meaning to information provided by the senses?
Median
Perception
Wilhelm Wundt
Daydreaming
9. Who argued that classical conditioning explains some behaviors - but operant conditioning plays a much larger role?
Short attention span
Androgynous
The brain/the cerebral cortex
B.F. Skinner
10. What is a learning disability in math - where concepts are learned one day and forgotten the next?
Gene
Create and release chemicals into the blood
Dyscalcula
Echolalia
11. In a kibbutz - the real parents of children may see them for one hour a day - a time referred to as the __________.
Rods
Independent variable
Hour of love
Egocentrism
12. What is the name for the awareness of external and internal events?
Consciousness
Schema
Medicated delivery
Stage
13. What are the four lobes of the brain?
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
Nurture
Allow the skull's plates of bone to shift or flex - making childbirth easier.
Hospice
14. What is the variable that the experimenter controls?
Independent variable
Self-esteem
Intrinsic reinforcer
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
15. Defense mechanism in which complete rejection of the feeling or situation
Denial
Binocular cues
Gene
Norplant
16. A child that bounces back from a difficult situation
5 & 6
Olfactory sense
Resilient child
The cerebrum
17. The repetition of certain syllables
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Nature
Babbling
Class inclusion
18. What is the perception characteristic that: you don't have to think about it for it to happen?
None!!
Noise
Automatic
Survey
19. 1 -2 -2 -2 -3 -3 -5 -8 -9 -9. What is the mode?
2
Six or seven months
Operant conditioning
Autoerotic behavior
20. What is: when the mother consumes alcohol while her babies are in the womb?
Preconventional Morality
Fetal alcohol syndrome
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
6
21. What is: attraction to the opposite sex?
Heterosexual
Divergent thinking
Hypothalamus
Intrinsic reinforcer
22. The name most associated with operant conditioning is who?
Mendel
B.F. Skinner
Convergent thinking
Create and release chemicals into the blood
23. What is: the difference made to one's mind by the process of assimilation?
Accommodation
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
Divergent thinking
Hypokinetic diseases
24. The larger the sample:
The more accurate the result
Recognition
Teratogens
Psychoanalytic theory
25. What kind of problem can it cause when a husband and wife have different blood types?
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26. Why is self-report data not as reliable as other research methods?
Positive reinforcer
Erogenous zones
Base of the skull; size of a pea
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
27. Which part of the ANS is the calming part of the system?
Free morpheme
Miscarriages or stillbirths
Parasympathetic
Alfred Binet
28. Failure to thrive is caused by:
Pavlov; classical conditioning
Emotional neglect
Psychoanalytical
RU-486
29. A set of cases of people randomly chosen from a large group to represent that large group
Sampling
Displacement
Equilibrium
Obstetrician-gynecologist
30. What is the term for lack of responsiveness to other people?
Rh positive
Conception
Gender conservation
Autism
31. Visible signs of aging include:
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32. What are the three different areas of the Autonomic Nervous System?
Six or seven months
Bisexual
Morality of Justice
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
33. Putting disabled students w/ normal students
Mainstreaming
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
Weak correlation
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
34. All other variables w/in an experiment that researchers do not have control over
Dependent variable
Zygote
Bisexual
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
35. Gilligan believed that Kholberg's theory described the male progression which she called the what?
Personality
Morality of Justice
Contraception
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
36. What is the variable that the experiment is trying to test?
Cross-modal perception
Ethics
Dependent variable
Cornea
37. Which lobe is related to voluntary muscles and intelligence?
Frontal lobe
Conservation
William James
Corpus callosum
38. Cultural bias not generally known across all subcultures
Creative
Psychometrics
Conception
Homosexual
39. The variable in which the researcher has direct control over
Suppression
Independent variable
Egocentrism
Morphemes
40. Pavlovs famous classical conditioning dog experiment.
Cerebral anoxia
Hour of love
Around age two
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
41. How much are the eyes developed in newborns?
Natural observation
Cochlea
Cerebral anoxia
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
42. What is the method in which a variable and constant are use to test theories?
Experimental research
Spermicides
Intrinsic reinforcer
Young Adult
43. What is the middle number in a set of data called?
Zygote
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
2
Median
44. A person who uses ______ has a stated position - but also acknowledges that it may change over time.
Babbling
Dialectical perspective
Teratogens
Babbling
45. What percent of children in kindergarten are immunized?
Subject
99%
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
Selective attention
46. 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.
Safety
Egocentrism
Gilligan
Mean
47. What two things make up the central nervous system?
Closure
Intrinsic reinforcer
Brain and spinal cord
Self-actualization
48. Stages that a person goes through when they find out they have an incurable disease or find out they are going to die
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49. When a participant starts to feel the effects of the drug but is actually taking a sugar pill or placebo
The Premack Principle
Best friend
Placebo effect
Autism
50. The ethical component of the personality and provides the moral standards by which the ego operates
Accommodation
Adolescent
Cones
Super Ego