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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. Who thought of the mind as a stream of consciousness--a flow of emotions - sensations and thoughts?
Social health
Fetal tobacco syndrome
William James
Structuralism
2. What is the term for identical twins?
Dura mater
Monozygotic twins
The penis doesn't grow and breasts may develop.
Rh positive
3. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs consists of which steps?
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Cerebrum
Erik Erikson
Fontanels
4. Observing someone's behavior and basing our own behavior on it
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Androgynous
Modeling
Adrenal glands
5. Who argued that if psychology was a true science - then psychologists should only study what they could see and measure (behaviorist theory)?
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
John Watson
Belonging and love
Full (46)
6. Dying w/o a will
Intestate
Independent variable
Psychoanalytic theory
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
7. When a participant fills out a survey themselves about themselves
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
Anger (Emotion)
Conceive at younger ages
Self-report data
8. What is the main symptom of hyperactivity?
Short attention span
Outer ear
3
Adrenal glands
9. Why is autism rare in children for the first 2 1/2 years?
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10. What is: a statistical measure of typical scores for categories of information?
Permissive
Endocrine system
Binocular cues
Developmental norm
11. 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
Daydreaming
1 in 14 -000
Rite of Passage
12. What is: psychological definition for having more equal personality characteristics between male&female?
Long labors or birth complications
Androgynous
10
Contraception
13. 1 -2 -2 -2 -3 -3 -5 -8 -9 -9. What is the mode?
ADHD
2
Six or seven months
Middle ear
14. A child that bounces back from a difficult situation
Cut in half
Stage 6
Resilient child
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
15. What are areas in a baby's skull where cartilage hasn't yet hardened into bone?
Obstetrician-gynecologist
Fontanels
Dizygotic twins
Schema
16. Who did the experiment with baby monkeys about affection and love?
2
Inner ear
Harry Harlow
Psychological maltreatment
17. A person who uses ______ has a stated position - but also acknowledges that it may change over time.
The Montessori Method
Dialectical perspective
Wear-and-Tear Theory
6-12
18. What is another term for the system of hearing?
Auditory System
Gender
Diaphragm
5
19. What is the method in which a variable and constant are use to test theories?
Experimental research
Sampling
Mendel
Rh positive
20. What is: the theory to investigate the elements or 'structures' of the mind; classify structures and focus on conscious thought
Natural prepared childbirth
Obstetrician-gynecologist
Structuralism
Resilient child
21. What types of drugs can hurt a developing fetus if taken by the mother?
Operant conditioning
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
Erik Erikson
Gender identity
22. What is the name for depth perception cues made with both eyes?
Cerebellum
Binocular cues
Cerebral palsy
Stage 1
23. The awareness of being a male or female
Gender identity
Correlation coefficient
Stillbirth
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
24. Defense mechanism: a type of displacement - a redirection of the feeling into a socially productive activity
Sublimation
Endocrine system
Wear-and-Tear Theory
Cerebral cortex
25. The ethical component of the personality and provides the moral standards by which the ego operates
Parallel play
Neonate
Super Ego
Dependent variable
26. One's wishes for the distribution of one's property and possessions after death
Pitch
Olfactory epithelium
A will
Cornea
27. What is: when a sample is taken from the fluid in the amniotic sac - to be tested for diseases or genetic traits?
Convergent thinking
Rubella
Amniocentesis
Free morpheme
28. A child that is always in a hurry
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
Hurried-child
Autism
Suppression
29. What is: the type of thought that has to do with factual information--trivia - vocabulary - science - history?
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Crystallized intelligence
Dyslexia
Ferdinand Lamaze
30. What are the two directions of growth in the embryo?
Correlation Research
Authoritarian
Id - Ego - Super Ego
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
31. What is the characteristic that: you fill in areas that we do not have complete information about?
90%
5 & 6
Constant
Creative
32. What two diseases - when caught early in the pregnancy - are most dangerous to the fetus?
Pupil
Syphillis and rubella
Permissive
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
33. Defense mechanism: feelings are redirected to someone else
Carl Rogers
Infertility
Genetic Mutation
Displacement
34. Categories of old age: 75-84
Middle-old
Experimental group and control group
Correlational research
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
35. Applied when a test measures something more than one facet
Spiritual health
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
Content validity
Limbic system
36. What is: when a person or animal responds to a neutral stimulus with a meaningful one
Classical conditioning
Psychometrics
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
Hypokinetic diseases
37. Where nursing care is given meant to maximize the quality of life for someone who is dying
Figurative language
Rods
As they age
Hospice
38. What system is made up of the hypothalamus and other glands?
Endocrine system
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Pia mater
...
39. Sigmund Freud's analysis of human personality and subconscious drives features three main components including:
Fetal death
Cones
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
Id - Ego - Super Ego
40. Level 2 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
Social aspect of language
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Young-old
3 & 4
41. What is the name for minimum amount of something we can detect or sense?
Absolute threshold
Sexually transmitted diseases
Middle ear
Extrinsic reinforcer
42. 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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43. What is: where the lens changes its curves to help the eye focus?
Sexual orientation
Accommodation
Occipital lobe
Cornea and lens
44. Individual sounds w/ in a word
Divergent thinking
Phonemes
Toddler
4-9
45. Extension of 'actions speak louder than words' in behavior; follow others' examples despite their words.
Parallel play
9-15
Social learning theory
Vestibular sense
46. In a study - the researchers have direct control over this variable
Independent variable
Assimilation
Raymond Cattell
Genetic Mutation
47. Second development of language - still pre-speech; repetition of meaningful sounds
Short attention span
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
Chomsky
Babbling
48. Which thought process is: a set of steps is followed to come to a correct answer; used in academic (math/science) settings?
Gender roles
Convergent thinking
Independent variable
3 & 4
49. What syndrome happens when a woman smokes while pregnant?
Anger (Emotion)
The cerebrum
Fetal tobacco syndrome
Cerebral anoxia
50. What is another name for a newborn?
Gender roles
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
Holophrase syntax
Neonate