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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. By the time they reach middle childhood - most girls will identify with one and only one _______.
Outer ear
Pitch
Corpus callosum
Best friend
2. What is the ability to identify correctly something encountered before?
Acceptance
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
Freud
Recognition
3. A collection of data from all cases or people in the chosen set
Childhood depression
Sexual identity
Monocular cues
A census
4. What is: the theory to investigate the elements or 'structures' of the mind; classify structures and focus on conscious thought
Cerebrospinal fluid
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Structuralism
Six months
5. Also called learning theory - based on the principle of observing and correcting behavior
Preparatory Depression
Fetal tobacco syndrome
Mean
Behaviorism
6. Who first coined self-efficacy?
Operant conditioning
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
Bandura
Base of the skull; size of a pea
7. What is: small device to block access to the uterus; left in place with spermicide for 6-8 hours - in order to kill any remaining sperm?
Diaphragm
Qualitative
Cesarean birth
Amniocentesis
8. A person who uses ______ has a stated position - but also acknowledges that it may change over time.
Dialectical perspective
Punishment
Monocular cues
10-14 months
9. Stages of friendship: intimate
Women - men
9-15
Cerebrospinal fluid
Wilhelm Wundt
10. What are the factors that influence psychosocial health?
True
Toxic shock syndrome
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Kibbutz
11. What is the study done to show that infants have depth perception?
Visual cliff
Infant
Binocular cues
Carl Rogers
12. Imitation of a past-observed behavior
Deferred imitation
Median
Positive reinforcer
Conservation
13. What is the term for: a child's understanding that once you leave the room - you are not gone forever - etc.?
Object permanence
Gender role stereotypes
Fit in
Wear-and-Tear Theory
14. Child's realization their sex will stay the same
A will
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
Gender conservation
Stimulus generalization
15. What is the part of the ear that includes the oval window - cochlea - and organ of Corti?
Longitudinal Study
Inner ear
No correlation
Echolalia
16. What is: your sense of being a man or woman as defined by society?
Five
Authoritative
The penis doesn't grow and breasts may develop.
Gender
17. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs consists of which steps?
1 in 14 -000
Selera
Reinforcer
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
18. What is the part of the ear that includes the pinna and external auditory canal?
School-age Child
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
Outer ear
Self-efficacy
19. Defense mechanism: a type of displacement - a redirection of the feeling into a socially productive activity
Punishment
Jean Piaget
Sublimation
B.F. Skinner
20. Final stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'I'm ready'
Acceptance
Punishment
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
5
21. What is the name for depth perception cues made with one eye?
Monocular cues
Mendel
Multiple caretakers
No
22. What is the sense that gives information about balance and body movement? (if your body is moving - tilting - etc.)
Vestibular sense
Cut in half
Depo-Provera
Midwife
23. What is: growth from the center (spine) outward - where vital organs form before the extremities?
Down syndrome
Proximodistal
Punishment
Divergent thinkers
24. Defense mechanism: Turning a feeling into the exact opposite feeling
Infertility
Zone of Proximal Development
Id
Reaction Formation
25. What disorder causes a person to have difficulty concentration - be easily distracted - or constantly in motion?
4
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
ADHD
Rite of Passage
26. How much are the eyes developed in newborns?
Telegraphic speech
Natural prepared childbirth
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
Assimilation
27. 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
Esteem needs
Cesarean birth
Prenatal development
Best friend
28. Which thought process is a creative process?
Divergent thinking
Mendel
Negative reinforcer
Wear-and-Tear Theory
29. What is: the study of substances which are harmful to prenatal development?
Teratology
Breast-feeding
Autoerotic behavior
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
30. What are: chemicals designed to kill sperm?
Frequency
B.F. Skinner
Content validity
Spermicides
31. What kind of childbirth did Dr. Grantly Dick Read start teaching?
Deferred imitation
Correlation coefficient
Placebo effect
Natural prepared childbirth
32. A morpheme that must be w/ a word
Bound morpheme
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Mental health
Valid
33. What is another name for a sound wave's amplitude?
Create and release chemicals into the blood
The brain stem
Loudness
Down syndrome
34. If a test measures what is meant to measure it is considered what?
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
Naturalistic observation
Valid
Rubella
35. The negative effects of sensory deprivation (not as much attention) are more likely to _______ w/ the length of the stage.
Semantics
Increase
Telegraphic speech
Dialectical perspective
36. Why is autism rare in children for the first 2 1/2 years?
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37. What is the conception alternative where semen is deposited into the body via a thin tube?
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Homophobia
Amniocentesis
Infant
38. Children are most likely to achieve if parents:
Cut in half
Set high standards - assist along the way
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Bound morpheme
39. Stage in which whether you will be punished or not determines what is moral or not - also called the punishment and obiedience phase
None!!
Stage 1
Alzheimer's Disease
Toxic shock syndrome
40. Recent research supports that children learn from listening to their parents talk to them in 'baby talk'; which aspect of language is this?
Zone of Proximal Development
Homophobia
Anger (Emotion)
Social aspect of language
41. What is the main relay station for incoming sensory signals to the cerebral cortex - and outgoing motor signals from it?
Thalamus
Cerebral anoxia
Abstinence
Cognitive theorist
42. What is the main difference between classical and operant conditioning?
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Cross-modal perception
Pons
Infertility
43. What do children in early language development not understand?
Figurative language
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Visual cliff
Longitudinal fissure
44. What is: any pill designed to prevent pregnancy?
Social health
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
Conceive at younger ages
Oral contraceptives
45. The variable in which the researcher has direct control over
Independent variable
Natural observation
Short attention span
Long labors or birth complications
46. Biological theories of aging: like everything else in the world - the human body wears out
Autoimmune Theory
Content validity
Wear-and-Tear Theory
Longitudinal Study
47. What is: an M.D. who provides comprehensive care for people of all ages?
Abstinence
Regression
Family practitioner
Medicated delivery
48. What is: your thoughts - beliefs - attitudes - and values
Bargaining
Mental health
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
Middle childhood
49. Who created the first scientific psychology laboratory?
Morphemes
Gestalt psychology
Wilhelm Wundt
Occipital lobe
50. Stage at which children are egocentric and will therefore think divorce is their fault
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
Psychological maltreatment
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Autoerotic behavior