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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. If a mother catches rubella in first trimester - what is the chance that the fetus is affected?
Habituation
Adolescent Egocentrism
Denial (Shock)
90%
2. A term used to describe something similar in structure or organization
Dizygotic twins
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
Qualitative
Brain and spinal cord
3. What is: long lasting contraceptive where six capsules are injected in a woman's arm?
The cerebrum
Negative Correlation
Extrinsic reinforcer
Norplant
4. What is the term for low IQ and mental age of about 4 years old?
Cornea and lens
Sigmund Freud
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Mentally retarded
5. Which stage of development is: Industry vs. Inferiority? (working with others)
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
Mode
School-age Child
Psychological Tests
6. What is the chance of having a boy or girl - according to Mendel's experiments in genetics?
50%
Sublimation
Wear-and-Tear Theory
Pupil
7. What is: T-shaped device implanted in uterus by a physician for five to ten years at a time?
Biological
IUD
Adrenal glands
Homosexual
8. Defense mechanism: hiding the feelings and not acknowledging them
Selective attention
Suppression
Valid
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
9. What is: psychological definition for having more equal personality characteristics between male&female?
Conservation
Androgynous
Hospice
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
10. What is the method of surgical delivery?
12+
10
Cesarean birth
Fit in
11. Second step in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Safety
Hypothalamus
Neonate
Cochlea
12. Does a somatic (body) cell have a full - or half - set of chromosomes?
Recall
Nature
Full (46)
Cesarean birth
13. The distortion of the results
Automatic
Inner ear
Bias
Binocular cues
14. When one variable increases while another variable decreases. We call this a what?
Negative Correlation
Figurative language
Genes
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
15. Self-aware - recognized - defined
Bound morpheme
Self-concept
Lens
Invincibility fable
16. What is: where the lens changes its curves to help the eye focus?
Accommodation
Gradually through shaping
Dialectical perspective
Gerontology
17. What regulates internal temperature - eating - sleeping - drinking - emotions - and sexual activity?
Five
Hypothalamus
The brain stem
3-7
18. A person who uses ______ has a stated position - but also acknowledges that it may change over time.
As they age
Behaviorism
Fluid intelligence
Dialectical perspective
19. How was the visual cliff study conducted?
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20. John Bowlby felt that attachment held evolutionary purpose. Explain
Sterilization
Biological
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
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
21. What is the main symptom of hyperactivity?
Six or seven months
Short attention span
Temporal lobe
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
22. How much are the eyes developed in newborns?
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
Three percent
Adolescent
Bargaining
23. Which part of the ANS is the arousing part of the system?
Emergency contraception
Gentle birth
Invincibility fable
Sympathetic nervous system
24. What is: the process by which a person takes material into their mind from the environment - which may mean changing sensory evidence to make it fit?
Sublimation
As they age
Displacement
Assimilation
25. When something from conditioning carries over to another related area; made baby Albert afraid of all furry animals - rather than just rats
Autism
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
Olfactory sense
Stimulus generalization
26. What controls breathing and heart rate?
Perception
Oral contraceptives
Pons
Response extinction
27. What is the scientific name for the sense of smell?
Double blind
Olfactory sense
Placebo effect
Absolute threshold
28. Experiment when none of the doctors - researchers - and participants know who is getting the real drug
Middle-old
Cross-modal perception
Experimental research
Double blind
29. What most-extreme fate does syphillis often cause in infants?
Nurture
Invincibility fable
Teratogens
Miscarriages or stillbirths
30. What is the clear membrane in front of the eye that protects it?
Binocular cues
Cornea
Explicit role instruction
Critical period
31. Biological theories of aging: as our bodies age - our immune systems become less effective at fighting disease - stress - etc.
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
Autoimmune Theory
Ageism
Breast-feeding
32. Children are most likely to achieve if parents:
Set high standards - assist along the way
Cones
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
33. Stages of friendship: intimate
9-15
Psychometrics
Critical period
Corpus callosum
34. Who conducted a longitudinal study of smart kids - resulting that they become happy adults?
Stimulus generalization
Full (46)
Psychoanalytic theory
Lewis Terman
35. What is: the representation in the mind of a set of perceptions - ideas - and actions - which go together
Loudness
A census
Schema
Carl Rogers
36. What is: the part of the ear inside the cochlea; contains sensors that change energy into impulses to be decoded by the brain?
Class inclusion
Organ of corti
Monocular cues
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
37. When a researcher observes and studies subjects w/o interacting or interfering w/ them
Naturalistic observation
Qualitative
12+
Egocentrism
38. Removing something unpleasant from a situation - to make a behavior more likely
Heterosexual
Negative reinforcer
Median
Teratology
39. What is the ring of muscles that makes up the colored part of the eye?
Infant
Iris
1 & 2
Qualitative
40. When do children develop object permanence?
Puberty
Francis Bacon--16th century
Around age two
Sound waves
41. Stage in which whether you will be punished or not determines what is moral or not - also called the punishment and obiedience phase
Dyslexia
Dialectical perspective
Cerebrospinal fluid
Stage 1
42. In a study - the researchers have direct control over this variable
Noise
Independent variable
Commissures
1 in 14 -000
43. What two diseases - when caught early in the pregnancy - are most dangerous to the fetus?
Contextual
Syphillis and rubella
Spermicides
Erik Erikson
44. What is: the theory that all people are inherently good and motivated to achieve their full potential
Egocentric behavior
Humanistic
Sympathetic nervous system
Base of the skull; size of a pea
45. What is: sexual self-stimulation or masturbation?
Operant Conditioning
Convergent thinking
Spermicides
Autoerotic behavior
46. What is: growth from the head downward (head develops before rest of the body)?
Neonate
Positive Correlation
Cephalocaudal
Francis Bacon--16th century
47. What is: attraction to the opposite sex?
Phonemes
6
Heterosexual
Osteoporosis
48. A morpheme that must be w/ a word
Bound morpheme
Natural prepared childbirth
Punishment
Three
49. What two other chemicals do the adrenal glands secrete?
Corpus callosum
Cephalocaudal
Osteoporosis
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
50. What thought process is supported by the example that: infants are given an object to hold - and then can recognize by sight the object.
Authoritarian
Psychometrics
Crystallized intelligence
Cross-modal perception
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