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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. Aside from learning disabilities - what physical problem do Kleinfelter people have?
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2. Stages of friendship: autonomous - interdependent
Zygote
Vygotsky
12+
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
3. Experiment when none of the doctors - researchers - and participants know who is getting the real drug
Self-efficacy
Double blind
Cochlea
RU-486
4. What do doctors agree is the best way to feed babies?
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Neonate
Breast-feeding
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying
5. What is: the ability to group objects together on the basis of common features?
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
Hypothalamus
Classification
Gilligan
6. Something pleasant used to make a behavior more likely
Structuralism
Social aspect of language
Convergent thinking
Positive reinforcer
7. What is the part of the ear that includes the pinna and external auditory canal?
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
Outer ear
Denial (Shock)
8. Biological theories of aging: like everything else in the world - the human body wears out
Self-efficacy
Six months
Bound morpheme
Wear-and-Tear Theory
9. What is: any pill designed to prevent pregnancy?
In vitro fertilization
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
Qualitative
Oral contraceptives
10. What is a learning disability in math - where concepts are learned one day and forgotten the next?
Correlation Research
Echolalia
6-12
Dyscalcula
11. What is the part of the ear that includes the oval window - cochlea - and organ of Corti?
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
Inner ear
Echolalia
12. What is another name for a sound wave's amplitude?
Vygotsky
Authoritarian
Loudness
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
13. What is: a progesterone shot given every three months?
Depo-Provera
Frontal lobe
Psychological Tests
As they age
14. What does the left half of the brain control?
Depth perception
Random assignment
The right hand - right eye - and speech
Ethics
15. Jean Piaget extensively used which research method to study children?
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Cooing
Natural observation
99%
16. What is: relating new information to something familiar
Content validity
Depo-Provera
Monocular cues
Elaboration
17. What are the four stages of sexual response?
Mentally retarded
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
School-age Child
18. Categories of old age: 75-84
Physical needs
Bias
None!!
Middle-old
19. Who founded the Hierarchy of Needs theory?
Maslow
Figurative language
Hospice
Crystallized intelligence
20. What is: the representation in the mind of a set of perceptions - ideas - and actions - which go together
Schema
Daydreaming
Social learning theory
Dialectical perspective
21. Stages of friendship: Momentary playmates
Monocular cues
3-7
As soon as the bell was rung
Frequency
22. What are the two parts responsible for bending light and focusing it in the back of the eye?
Cornea and lens
Conservation
Anger (Emotion)
Cochlea
23. Once the disease strikes - an individual w/ Alzheimer's disease usually has their life expectancy is:
Explicit role instruction
5
1 & 2
Cut in half
24. What is: the process by which a person takes material into their mind from the environment - which may mean changing sensory evidence to make it fit?
Telegraphic speech
Intrinsic reinforcer
Assimilation
Random assignment
25. Stage in which a person abides by the law because they think that law is a higher order; laws cannot be broken under any circumstance; social-order-maintaining orientation
Hypokinetic diseases
Stage 4
Autism
6-12
26. What is: the process of working something out in your head; shows the difference between young children (act and try things out) and older (can do things in their heads)
Five
Conceive at younger ages
Positive reinforcer
Operation
27. How is ADHD diagnosed?
IUD
Accommodation
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
28. What is the main relay station for incoming sensory signals to the cerebral cortex - and outgoing motor signals from it?
Parallel play
Thalamus
Absolute threshold
Structuralism
29. Stage at which children are egocentric and will therefore think divorce is their fault
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
90%
Operation
Reciprocal determinism
30. What is the most popular method for giving birth?
Self-concept
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
Medicated delivery
12+
31. What is: term used to describe a person's belief that they can perform a task successfully?
Self-efficacy
Amplitude
Divergent thinking
Parasympathetic
32. When do the two fontanels harden?
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33. What is the name of the scientist known as the father of genetics and inheritance?
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
Mendel
4
Maslow
34. What are: the principles and standards of behavior - including morals; right/wrong and having one's actions correlate with their beliefs
Psychiatrist
Accommodation
Ethics
Double blind
35. What two other chemicals do the adrenal glands secrete?
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Kohlberg
10-14 months
The brain
36. Who coined the Theory of Moral Development?
Kohlberg
Ego
In vitro fertilization
Autoimmune Theory
37. What is the term to describe the thinking part of health?
Crystallized intelligence
Mental health
Hurried-child
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
38. Disagreed w/ Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development because his subjects were mainly male
Sexually transmitted diseases
Six months
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Gilligan
39. Read pages 22-25 for charts: Piaget's Stages of Development and Freud's Psychosexual Stages
Visual cliff
...
Egocentrism
Hypokinetic diseases
40. What is: expression of your maleness or femaleness on a daily basis?
Gender roles
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
Independent variable
Lewis Terman
41. Parenting styles: respects individually - but tries to instill social values
Sympathetic nervous system
Authoritative
Create and release chemicals into the blood
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
42. What is the least developed part of a newborn (growth is not complete)?
Middle-age Adult
The brain/the cerebral cortex
Gradually through shaping
Self-concept
43. Third step in Maslow's Hierarchy of needs in which you may want to meet needs of belongings and love through relationships
Amplitude
Around age two
Belonging and love
William James
44. Id - Ego - and Super Ego were all founded by who?
Belonging and love
Genetic Mutation
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
Sigmund Freud
45. What is the term for the death of a child under one year - for no apparent reason?
Young Adult
Monozygotic twins
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Cephalocaudal
46. What is: a person's attraction to other people?
Stage 1
Social aspect of language
Sexual orientation
Pituitary gland
47. Piaget believed that the individual actively constructs knowledge about the world--what is the term for this?
Infertility
Dura mater
Cognitive theorist
Weak correlation
48. What is: the method to prevent an egg and sperm from being able to access each other?
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
Stillbirth
Contraception
Preparatory Depression
49. Which stage of development is: Intimacy vs. Isolation? (emotional ties with others)
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
First trimester
Convergent thinking
Young Adult
50. Fourth step in Maslow's Hierarchy of needs in which you begin to think about you self-esteem and how you feel as a person
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
Esteem needs
Ferdinand Lamaze
Morphemes