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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. Who did the study between stimulus and response with dogs; and what did he discover?
Egocentrism
Assimilation
Fit in
Pavlov; classical conditioning
2. What is: the theory that all people are inherently good and motivated to achieve their full potential
Humanistic
Ferdinand Lamaze
Sexually transmitted diseases
Base of the skull; size of a pea
3. What is the term for: a child's understanding that once you leave the room - you are not gone forever - etc.?
Cerebral cortex
Schema
Object permanence
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
4. What is: a person's attraction to other people?
1 & 2
5
Sexual orientation
Gene
5. What is: the tone color or perceptual quality of a sound?
Norplant
Preparatory Depression
ADHD
Timbre
6. Stages of friendship: intimate
Id
9-15
Ego
Pia mater
7. What is the name for depth perception cues made with one eye?
Schema
Monocular cues
5 & 6
Reinforcer
8. Stage in which you do what is right in order to gain status or approval from other people or society; 'good boy-good girl' orientation
Stage 3
Organ of corti
Absolute threshold
Maslow
9. Who coined the Theory of Moral Development?
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
Kohlberg
Freud
Fontanels
10. Which of these diseases can cause miscarriage - stillbirth - heart defects - deafness - and other problems?
Puberty
Negative Correlation
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Rubella
11. What attention disorders also interfere with the learning process?
Free morpheme
Mental health
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
12. What are the three different types of teratogens?
Multiple caretakers
Cerebral palsy
Biological
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
13. What is the term for identical twins?
Monozygotic twins
Independent variable
They were not scientifically performed
Developmental norm
14. 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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15. Stages of friendship: Momentary playmates
Spermicides
3-7
Family therapy
Rationalization
16. What is: an M.D. who specializes in OB-GYN?
Alfred Binet
Extrinsic reinforcer
Obstetrician-gynecologist
Psychological maltreatment
17. What is the very critical period of the first 3 months in the womb?
The Montessori Method
Developmental norm
Prenatal development
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
18. What is: the fluid filled structure in the inner ear that looks like a snail?
Cochlea
Cut in half
Humanistic
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
19. Which receptor is more sensitive to light - but is not used to view color?
Rods
Gradually through shaping
Cognitive
Auditory System
20. What is: the number of full wavelengths that pass through a point in a given amount of time
Rh positive
Permissive
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
Frequency
21. What gland releases hormones that regulate hormone secretions of other glands?
Rubella
Quantitative
Pituitary gland
Psychoanalytic theory
22. Recent research supports that children learn from listening to their parents talk to them in 'baby talk'; which aspect of language is this?
Physical needs
Dura mater
Social aspect of language
Acceptance
23. Why did studies used by Piaget and Freud lead to wrong conclusions?
They were not scientifically performed
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
Cerebrum
Amniocentesis
24. What is the conception alternative where fertilization of the egg is done outside the body - and then transferred back into the body?
Oral contraceptives
In vitro fertilization
Developmental norm
Consciousness
25. Aside from learning disabilities - what physical problem do Kleinfelter people have?
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26. Piaget believed that the individual actively constructs knowledge about the world--what is the term for this?
Lens
Cognitive theorist
Autonomic Nervous System
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
27. Stereotypes in genders; boys play with trucks and girls wear makeup - etc.
Structuralism
Stage 3
Explicit role instruction
Anger (Emotion)
28. What is another name for a sound wave's amplitude?
Loudness
Avoid punishment
Autonomic Nervous System
Explicit role instruction
29. Theory by Bandura; the interaction of a person's personality - the environment - and the behavior.
Acceptance
Reciprocal determinism
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
Adolescent Egocentrism
30. Which lobe is related to vision?
Authoritarian
Occipital lobe
Laboratory observation
Erogenous zones
31. What two things make up the central nervous system?
Stage 4
Brain and spinal cord
9-15
Mental health
32. What is the part of the ear that includes the oval window - cochlea - and organ of Corti?
Denial (Shock)
Inner ear
Nurture
Operant Conditioning
33. Is there currently a cure for Alzheimer's disease?
Autoerotic behavior
No
Mode
Temporal lobe
34. Where nursing care is given meant to maximize the quality of life for someone who is dying
Emotional neglect
Bisexual
Infertility
Hospice
35. When does language development begin?
Corpus callosum
Cesarean birth
Six months
Cross-modal perception
36. Something pleasant used to make a behavior more likely
Parallel play
Positive reinforcer
Around age two
Echolalia
37. Which thought process is: many ideas are brainstormed to explore many possible solutions; used in creative settings?
Divergent thinking
Spiritual health
Mental health
Rationalization
38. Who introduced the scientific method?
Francis Bacon--16th century
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
As they age
Abortion
39. What is: when a person or animal responds to a neutral stimulus with a meaningful one
Crystallized intelligence
Rh positive
Classical conditioning
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
40. Observing someone's behavior and basing our own behavior on it
Modeling
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
As they age
Vestibular sense
41. A term used in research used to describe something measurable usually expressed as a number
Accommodation
Medicated delivery
Quantitative
Francis Bacon--16th century
42. 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)
Fluid intelligence
Operation
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Nurture
43. Failure to thrive is caused by:
The Montessori Method
Naturalistic observation
Emotional neglect
First trimester
44. Which stage of development is: Identity vs. Role Confusion? (who am I)
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
Gender identity
Adolescent
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
45. 1 -3 -4 -5 -7 -8 -10 what is the median?
5
Rite of Passage
Amniocentesis
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
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.
Egocentrism
Dialectical perspective
Psychometrics
Midwife
47. What are the two different classifications of intelligence?
Pupil
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
Thalamus
Adolescent Egocentrism
48. The average of a data set
Permissive
Mean
Short attention span
Intrinsic reinforcer
49. What is the clear membrane in front of the eye that protects it?
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
Cerebral anoxia
Cornea
Behaviorism
50. Defense mechanism: transferring your thoughts and feelings onto others
Toxic shock syndrome
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
Independent variable
Projection