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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. Stage in which you see the right action as what satisfies your personal needs; a person becomes aware of two different viewpoints
Correlation coefficient
Short attention span
Stage 2
Diaphragm
2. What is the name for the 'crack' in the middle of the brain halves?
Longitudinal fissure
Valid
Outer ear
Hypokinetic diseases
3. What is: growth from the center (spine) outward - where vital organs form before the extremities?
Middle ear
99%
The right hand - right eye - and speech
Proximodistal
4. Believing women followed a different progression than men - she called the moral progression of the woman what?
Peer group
6-12
Morality of Care
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
5. What is: your thoughts about what gives life purpose--the meaning of life - religion
Longitudinal fissure
The brain/the cerebral cortex
Hour of love
Spiritual health
6. Children learn and form their conscience and thoughts of what is acceptable behavior from what?
Accommodation
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
Watching their parents
Conception
7. What is the main relay station for incoming sensory signals to the cerebral cortex - and outgoing motor signals from it?
Thalamus
Sexual orientation
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
Old-old
8. Infants develop a secure attachment when parents pay attention to and respond to a child's needs. What theory includes this statement?
Infant
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
Gerontology
Psychoanalytic theory
9. Where are genes carried?
Daydreaming
Temporal lobe
On chromosomes
Kibbutz
10. What is: the amount of pressure produced by a sound wave - measured in decibels?
Amplitude
Gilligan
Sigmund Freud
Biological
11. First element to Vygotsky's theory: what does social interaction facilitate?
Monozygotic twins
Hurried-child
Cognitive improvement
Heterosexual
12. What is: sexual self-stimulation or masturbation?
Autoerotic behavior
B.F. Skinner
Social aspect of language
Self-actualization
13. What is: not being involved in a sexual relationship?
Babbling
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Celibacy
Francis Bacon--16th century
14. In a child - can be expressed as 'nobody likes me'
Authoritarian
Childhood depression
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Sexual orientation
15. What do doctors agree is the best way to feed babies?
Ivan Pavlov
Breast-feeding
Selective
Kibbutz
16. How was the visual cliff study conducted?
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17. What is: the theory to investigate the elements or 'structures' of the mind; classify structures and focus on conscious thought
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Structuralism
Developmental norm
Young-old
18. What is the white part of the eye that protects and manages the shape of the eye?
Id
Condom
Dialectical perspective
Selera
19. In the Harlow experiment: between the wire monkey+bottle - and cloth monkey+no bottle - which fake mother did the babies prefer?
12+
The cloth monkey
Content validity
Parasympathetic
20. A term used to describe something similar in structure or organization
Convergent thinking
Qualitative
Rationalization
Alfred Binet
21. What is: hatred and fear of homosexuals?
1 in 14 -000
William James
Midwife
Homophobia
22. What is: areas of the body which - when touched - lead to sexual arousal?
Fit in
No correlation
Erogenous zones
Free morpheme
23. A type of conditioning in which a person associates an action with a consequence
Kohlberg
Create and release chemicals into the blood
Operant Conditioning
Occipital lobe
24. When a researcher observes and studies subjects w/o interacting or interfering w/ them
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Cerebral cortex
Three percent
Naturalistic observation
25. A chronic condition that deteriorates the nerve fibers in the brain controlling memory - speech - and personality. Early symptoms including personality changes - lack of interest in activities - and change in sleep patterns.
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26. Applied when a test measures something more than one facet
Correlation Research
Content validity
Heterosexual
Vygotsky
27. What is: attraction to both sexes?
Rubella
Bisexual
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
Bound morpheme
28. What kind of childbirth did Dr. Grantly Dick Read start teaching?
Cooing
Rite of Passage
Natural prepared childbirth
Limbic system
29. What is the method of surgical delivery?
Cesarean birth
Contextual
Nurture
Diaphragm
30. What is: when a child can't be conceived via the usual method?
Biological
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
Norplant
Infertility
31. When do the two fontanels harden?
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32. What is: growth from the head downward (head develops before rest of the body)?
Rods
Parasympathetic
Cephalocaudal
Temporal lobe
33. In a study - the researchers have direct control over this variable
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
Bandura
Diaphragm
Independent variable
34. Who did the study between stimulus and response with dogs; and what did he discover?
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
Absolute threshold
The more accurate the result
Pavlov; classical conditioning
35. A medical doctor with a degree who specializes in psychotherapy - who can prescribe drugs
Rite of Passage
Psychiatrist
Francis Bacon--16th century
Deferred imitation
36. What system is made up of the hypothalamus and other glands?
Alfred Binet
Social development or social cognition
Natural prepared childbirth
Endocrine system
37. Defense mechanism: a type of displacement - a redirection of the feeling into a socially productive activity
Women - men
Sublimation
Socialization
Rubella
38. How many PAIRS of chromosomes do body cells have?
Stillbirth
Gender identity
23 pairs
Ego
39. What is: term for how much someone values and respects themselves?
Outer ear
Limbic system
Self-esteem
Autism
40. A lower number of the correlation coefficient - closer to the number zero shows a:
Nature
Projection
Weak correlation
Infertility
41. What is the perception characteristic that: if you have heard a movie is scary - you might be more inclined to get scared?
Contextual
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
Diaphragm
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
42. A test that gives information about a participant including standardized tests such as aptitude - interest - and personality tests
Psychological Tests
Midwife
Condom
Laboratory observation
43. The scientific study of words and sentences
Semantics
Survey
99%
Gene
44. Stages of friendship: autonomous - interdependent
Daydreaming
Limbic system
Visual cliff
12+
45. Defense mechanism: Turning a feeling into the exact opposite feeling
Personality
Visual cliff
Freud
Reaction Formation
46. Usually has a doctoral degree in psychology plus an internship; cannot prescribe medicine.
Clinical psychologist
Papillae
Alfred Binet
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
47. What is: the ability to group objects together on the basis of common features?
Jean Piaget
Classification
Correlational research
Vestibular sense
48. What thought process is supported by the example that: infants are given an object to hold - and then can recognize by sight the object.
Autoimmune Theory
Closure
Freud
Cross-modal perception
49. What are: the principles and standards of behavior - including morals; right/wrong and having one's actions correlate with their beliefs
Ethics
Obstetrician-gynecologist
Harry Harlow
Androgynous
50. We smell when airborne molecules of an odor reach tiny receptor cells in the top of the nasal cavity; what is the name of this receptor area?
Sublimation
Belonging and love
Olfactory epithelium
Frequency