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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. What is a specific period in development when a certain event has the greatest impact? (For example - a certain period of time when a young bird can learn to fly)
Create and release chemicals into the blood
Frequency
Critical period
Pituitary gland
2. What is: expression of your maleness or femaleness on a daily basis?
Displacement
Gender roles
Operant Conditioning
William James
3. What thought process is supported by the example that: infants are given an object to hold - and then can recognize by sight the object.
Crystallized intelligence
Cross-modal perception
Natural prepared childbirth
Operant conditioning
4. What gland releases hormones that regulate hormone secretions of other glands?
Old Age
Middle childhood
Parasympathetic
Pituitary gland
5. What are the 8 psychological approaches?
B.F. Skinner
Short attention span
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
Echolalia
6. Who made the first IQ test?
Alfred Binet
Loudness
The brain stem
Contextual
7. What is: a person's attraction to other people?
Sexual orientation
Stage 3
2
Bound morpheme
8. Categories of old age: 75-84
Middle-old
Projection
Reciprocal determinism
Holophrase syntax
9. 1 + 5 + 6. What is the mean?
Gender
4
Mean
Fetal tobacco syndrome
10. 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
Full (46)
Rubella
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
11. Level 3 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
Loudness
5 & 6
Absolute threshold
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
12. How was the visual cliff study conducted?
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13. First development of language; pre-speech
Hippocampus
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
Response extinction
Cooing
14. When one variable increase - another variable increases. We call this a what?
Positive Correlation
Heterosexual
Binocular cues
Down syndrome
15. How is IQ calculated?
Displacement
Down syndrome
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
Cornea and lens
16. Why is autism rare in children for the first 2 1/2 years?
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17. Level 1 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
1 & 2
Self-esteem
Old-old
Outer ear
18. What is the ability to identify correctly something encountered before?
Nurture
Multiple caretakers
Assimilation
Recognition
19. Third step in Maslow's Hierarchy of needs in which you may want to meet needs of belongings and love through relationships
Hollow phrases
As they age
Lewis Terman
Belonging and love
20. Theory that every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first between people - then inside the child.
3
Pupil
Social development or social cognition
Toddler
21. The awareness of being a male or female
Recognition
Pupil
Gender identity
Noise
22. A lower number of the correlation coefficient - closer to the number zero shows a:
Cognitive
Cerebral anoxia
Weak correlation
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
23. True or False: Kohlberg believed that you go through each step of moral development one @ a time and could not skip them.
Elaboration
Operant Conditioning
Midwife
True
24. John Bowlby felt that attachment held evolutionary purpose. Explain
Biological
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
Closure
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
25. Failure to thrive is caused by:
ADHD
Gender role stereotypes
Equilibrium
Emotional neglect
26. Which lobe is related to vision?
Occipital lobe
Cerebrospinal fluid
Wilhelm Wundt
Correlation coefficient
27. What do children in early language development not understand?
Middle-age Adult
Middle childhood
Monocular cues
Figurative language
28. Usually has a doctoral degree in psychology plus an internship; cannot prescribe medicine.
Obstetrician-gynecologist
Biological
Clinical psychologist
Frontal lobe
29. What is: long lasting contraceptive where six capsules are injected in a woman's arm?
Morality of Justice
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
Norplant
Spiritual health
30. Which thought process is: many ideas are brainstormed to explore many possible solutions; used in creative settings?
Midwife
Divergent thinking
A will
Create and release chemicals into the blood
31. What is a sometimes-fatal disease occuring from the excessive use of tampons - or leaving a diaphragm in - for longer than prescribed time?
Toxic shock syndrome
Gender conservation
Genetic Mutation
Negative Correlation
32. One's wishes for the distribution of one's property and possessions after death
Safety
A will
Independent variable
Survey
33. What is: your feelings and reactions
Emotional health
Biological
Temporal lobe
Equilibrium
34. What is: the tone color or perceptual quality of a sound?
Lewis Terman
As soon as the bell was rung
Timbre
Best friend
35. What is the part of the ear that includes the eardrum - anvil - and stirrup?
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
Middle-age Adult
Middle ear
Extinction
36. A reinforcer that comes from within the individual--something emotional.
Intrinsic reinforcer
Content validity
Lewis Terman
Behavioral
37. Self-esteem begins forming in:
Lewis Terman
Sterilization
Middle childhood
Informed consent
38. According to both Kohlberg and Piaget - the most immature reason to do something is to:
A will
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
Avoid punishment
Survey
39. What is: areas of the body which - when touched - lead to sexual arousal?
Erogenous zones
Divergent thinking
Midwife
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
40. What is a fertilized ovum or egg?
Fetal death
In vitro fertilization
Zygote
Retina
41. Biological theories of aging: the number of cells that have problems or mutations that increase w/ age
Monocular cues
Infant
Genetic Mutation
Gestures
42. All other variables w/in an experiment that researchers do not have control over
Deferred imitation
Dependent variable
Social aspect of language
Allow the skull's plates of bone to shift or flex - making childbirth easier.
43. Who created structuralism?
Gonads
Stage 6
Wilhelm Wundt
Three
44. Who argued that classical conditioning explains some behaviors - but operant conditioning plays a much larger role?
B.F. Skinner
Diaphragm
Sound waves
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
45. What are the four components of psychosocial health?
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Fetal death
Classical conditioning
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
46. Stage in which whether you will be punished or not determines what is moral or not - also called the punishment and obiedience phase
Stage 1
Cerebral cortex
Natural observation
Bargaining
47. First element to Vygotsky's theory: what does social interaction facilitate?
Cognitive improvement
Esteem needs
Chomsky
Fontanels
48. When people of different ages are studied at one particular time
Cephalocaudal
Prenatal development
Cross Sectional Study
Amniocentesis
49. Level 1 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development
Sigmund Freud
Preconventional Morality
Frequency
Lewis Terman
50. Gilligan believed that Kholberg's theory described the male progression which she called the what?
Abstinence
Morality of Justice
Convergent thinking
Dialectical perspective