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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology

Subjects : dsst, psychology
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1. Types of child play in chronological order:






2. What is: the most developed - and largest (80%) - part of the brain?






3. What is: expression of your maleness or femaleness on a daily basis?






4. All senses report to the thalamus except for one--which?






5. Does a somatic (body) cell have a full - or half - set of chromosomes?






6. Applied when a test measures something more than one facet






7. How many PAIRS of chromosomes do body cells have?






8. What is the most extreme outcome of a woman drinking during her pregnancy?






9. The name most associated with operant conditioning is who?






10. What is the ring of muscles that makes up the colored part of the eye?






11. What is: a period in a child's development in which he/she is capable of understanding some things but not others






12. In a child - can be expressed as 'nobody likes me'






13. True or False: Kohlberg believed that you go through each step of moral development one @ a time and could not skip them.






14. What kind of childbirth did Dr. Grantly Dick Read start teaching?






15. In a study - the researchers have direct control over this variable






16. Second stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'This is unfair. Why me?'






17. Which stage of development is: Industry vs. Inferiority? (working with others)






18. What is the study done to show that infants have depth perception?






19. What is: a child (especially preschool age) doesn't take into consideration other people's needs--their perceptions are limited to their own point of view






20. What two diseases - when caught early in the pregnancy - are most dangerous to the fetus?






21. What is when the baby is born in a pool or bath with dim lights?






22. Who created the first scientific psychology laboratory?






23. What kind of problem can it cause when a husband and wife have different blood types?

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24. When do the two fontanels harden?

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25. Recent research supports that children learn from listening to their parents talk to them in 'baby talk'; which aspect of language is this?






26. What percentage of children are affected by hyperactivity?






27. What is: areas of the body which - when touched - lead to sexual arousal?






28. First step in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs such as food water and shelter






29. Rang the bell each time he fed the dog; eventually how early did the dogs start salivating?






30. How much alcohol is the safe amount to consume during pregnancy?






31. What syndrome happens when a woman smokes while pregnant?






32. Who did the study between stimulus and response with dogs; and what did he discover?






33. What determines physical traits and is inherited from one or both parents?






34. What do doctors agree is the best way to feed babies?






35. Theory that every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first between people - then inside the child.






36. Stage in which whether you will be punished or not determines what is moral or not - also called the punishment and obiedience phase






37. What is: the gland that controls release of hormones from the gonads?






38. Not physical abuse but when the child feels rejected or feels failure






39. What is the scientific name for the sense of smell?






40. A morpheme that can be a word on its own






41. Something pleasant used to make a behavior more likely






42. A method of modifying behavior - by ignoring the behavior so you don't have the response






43. Stages of friendship: autonomous - interdependent






44. What section of the nervous system is responsible for the 'fight or flight' response?






45. What is the method in which a variable and constant are use to test theories?






46. 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?






47. Disagreed w/ Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development because his subjects were mainly male






48. What thought process is supported by the example that: infants are given an object to hold - and then can recognize by sight the object.






49. Time at which most children begin to speak actual words






50. Biological theories of aging: the number of cells that have problems or mutations that increase w/ age