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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. What is: the debate between whether a child is born a bad seed--with whatever disposition/tastes/personality they were meant to have; or that a child is born good - with their upbringing affecting their later personality and actions.
Nature vs. nurture
Commissures
Old-old
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
2. Second development of language - still pre-speech; repetition of meaningful sounds
Elaboration
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
Babbling
True
3. Failure to thrive is caused by:
Occipital lobe
Emotional neglect
Placebo effect
Maslow
4. People who are working that experience discrimination because of their age - whether too young or too old are victims of what?
Median
Id
Ageism
Social learning theory
5. In the Harlow experiment: between the wire monkey+bottle - and cloth monkey+no bottle - which fake mother did the babies prefer?
Ivan Pavlov
Morality of Justice
Survey
The cloth monkey
6. What are the four stages of sexual response?
As they age
Psychological Tests
Informed consent
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
7. What fluid covers the brain - and is used to transport chemicals and regulate pressure?
4
Family therapy
Cerebrospinal fluid
Intrinsic reinforcer
8. Individual sounds w/ in a word
Noise
B.F. Skinner
Phonemes
Endocrine system
9. What are the three parts of memory?
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
Cephalocaudal
...
10. John Bowlby felt that attachment held evolutionary purpose. Explain
Phonemes
Authoritative
Young Adult
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
11. The final stage of Maslow's Hierarchy of needs. A stage you may never actually meet.
Denial (Shock)
Modeling
Fit in
Self-actualization
12. What is: an M.D. who provides comprehensive care for people of all ages?
Family practitioner
Invincibility fable
Conceive at younger ages
Six months
13. What is the approach that assumes people organize their perceptions by patterns?
Genes
Invincibility fable
Gestalt psychology
A census
14. Categories of old age: 85+
Stage 5
Egocentric behavior
ADHD
Old-old
15. What is the conception alternative where fertilization of the egg is done outside the body - and then transferred back into the body?
Humanistic
In vitro fertilization
Equilibrium
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
16. A term used to describe something similar in structure or organization
Gradually through shaping
Gonads
Rubella
Qualitative
17. What gland releases hormones that regulate hormone secretions of other glands?
Pituitary gland
9-15
Parietal lobe
Accommodation
18. The smallest unit of a word which has meaning - may be bound or free
Rh positive
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
Loudness
Morphemes
19. Children learn and form their conscience and thoughts of what is acceptable behavior from what?
Watching their parents
Gentle birth
Mendel
Nurture
20. A medical doctor with a degree who specializes in psychotherapy - who can prescribe drugs
Accommodation
Personality
Conception
Psychiatrist
21. A correlation coefficient of zero
Homophobia
Preschooler
Content validity
No correlation
22. What does the left half of the brain control?
Kohlberg
The right hand - right eye - and speech
Women - men
Punishment
23. What types of drugs can hurt a developing fetus if taken by the mother?
5
Zygote
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
Cerebrum
24. Who proposed fluid/crystallized intelligence?
Mentally retarded
Mental health
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
Raymond Cattell
25. What is: the theory centered on studying how the mind is involved in knowing - learning - remembering - thinking; study how the mind relates to behavior
Operant Conditioning
Cellular Theory
Operation
Cognitive
26. Defense mechanism: a type of displacement - a redirection of the feeling into a socially productive activity
Extrinsic reinforcer
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
Brain and spinal cord
Sublimation
27. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs consists of which steps?
Hollow phrases
Resilient child
Naturalistic observation
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
28. An environment where children live and attend school
Autism
Fetal tobacco syndrome
Peer group
Childhood depression
29. Defense mechanism: hiding the feelings and not acknowledging them
Suppression
They were not scientifically performed
Operant Conditioning
Stillbirth
30. What is the most extreme outcome of a woman drinking during her pregnancy?
Adolescent
Semantics
Fetal death
Half (23)
31. If a mother catches rubella in first trimester - what is the chance that the fetus is affected?
Pituitary gland
90%
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Family therapy
32. What is: attraction to the opposite sex?
Heterosexual
Independent variable
William James
William James
33. What is the method of surgical delivery?
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
Gender identity
Cesarean birth
Nurture
34. Which receptor is more sensitive to light - but is not used to view color?
Rods
Gender role stereotypes
Vygotsky
Autism
35. What is: when a person or animal responds to a neutral stimulus with a meaningful one
Qualitative
Weak correlation
Classical conditioning
Experimental group and control group
36. The scientific study of words and sentences
Bargaining
1 in 14 -000
Absolute threshold
Semantics
37. How is ADHD diagnosed?
Safety
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
Super Ego
Gene
38. What is the rating system to judge a baby's functionality when first born?
Authoritarian
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying
Puberty
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
39. Applied when a test measures something more than one facet
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
Nurture
Content validity
Schema
40. Why are IQ scores only accurate for short periods of time?
5 & 6
Hurried-child
Toxic shock syndrome
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
41. What is the term for oxygen deficiency to the brain?
Operant conditioning
3-7
Cerebral anoxia
Genetic Mutation
42. What is the part of the ear that includes the eardrum - anvil - and stirrup?
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Middle ear
Cooing
Oral contraceptives
43. Level 3 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
5 & 6
Parasympathetic
Olfactory sense
Natural prepared childbirth
44. How is extinction best achieved?
Negative Correlation
Personality
Multiple caretakers
Gradually through shaping
45. There are usually two groups in an experiment - titled:
Alzheimer's Disease
A census
Socialization
Experimental group and control group
46. What is the scientific name for the sense of smell?
Olfactory sense
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
Baby Albert
Assimilation
47. Age at which most children will identify specific 'best-friends'
10
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
Peer group
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
48. A signal to society that certain rules have changed - this person is no longer a child
Rite of Passage
Cellular Theory
Osteoporosis
Hollow phrases
49. Who argued that if psychology was a true science - then psychologists should only study what they could see and measure (behaviorist theory)?
Diaphragm
B.F. Skinner
Around age two
John Watson
50. Stereotypes in genders; boys play with trucks and girls wear makeup - etc.
Olfactory epithelium
Survey
Explicit role instruction
The more accurate the result
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