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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. Who first coined self-efficacy?
Bandura
Six months
Conceive at younger ages
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
2. What is: the theory centered on behavior; see person as blank slate upon which impressions of experiences can be recorded.
Behavioral
The brain
Limbic system
Conception
3. First element to Vygotsky's theory: what does social interaction facilitate?
Ferdinand Lamaze
Cognitive improvement
Nature
Psychometrics
4. Deaf children will often be more proficient at communicating through _______ than do hearing infants - often being able to sign at ten months old
Emotional neglect
Rite of Passage
Gestures
The cloth monkey
5. Which lobe is related to body sensations?
Parietal lobe
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
Conceive at younger ages
Gilligan
6. How does the pupil work?
Brain and spinal cord
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
No
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
7. Dying w/o a will
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
Intestate
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
Stimulus generalization
8. One's wishes for the distribution of one's property and possessions after death
The cerebrum
Amniocentesis
A will
Negative Correlation
9. In a case study - a single individual called a _____ is intensely studied
Subject
Gerontology
50%
Daydreaming
10. Failure to thrive is caused by:
Gonads
Longitudinal fissure
Emotional neglect
Gender role stereotypes
11. What percent of children in kindergarten are immunized?
99%
The brain
RU-486
Contextual
12. What is the least developed part of a newborn (growth is not complete)?
Diaphragm
Gentle birth
The brain/the cerebral cortex
Explicit role instruction
13. A child that is always in a hurry
Hurried-child
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
Classification
Reinforcer
14. Why did studies used by Piaget and Freud lead to wrong conclusions?
Mainstreaming
Stillbirth
23 pairs
They were not scientifically performed
15. What is the scientific name for the sense of smell?
Olfactory sense
Cross-modal perception
Set high standards - assist along the way
Toddler
16. How was the visual cliff study conducted?
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17. How many PAIRS of chromosomes do body cells have?
Erogenous zones
Semantics
Mostly developed by the time of birth
23 pairs
18. When is anoxia a problem in births?
Ageism
Ethics
Preconventional Morality
Long labors or birth complications
19. Also called learning theory - based on the principle of observing and correcting behavior
Selective attention
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
Subject
Behaviorism
20. The study of the aging process
Norplant
Habituation
Gerontology
5
21. Stage in which a person abides by the law because they think that law is a higher order; laws cannot be broken under any circumstance; social-order-maintaining orientation
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
Stage 4
Erogenous zones
Cerebrospinal fluid
22. What is the perception characteristic that: you don't have to think about it for it to happen?
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Freud
Negative Correlation
Automatic
23. A method of modifying behavior - by ignoring the behavior so you don't have the response
Frontal lobe
Egocentric behavior
Response extinction
Assimilation
24. What is the term for oxygen deficiency to the brain?
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
As they age
Cerebral anoxia
Zone of Proximal Development
25. A type of conditioning in which a person associates an action with a consequence
Mendel
50%
Operant Conditioning
B.F. Skinner
26. Why does a gamete have a half set of chromosomes?
Syphillis and rubella
3 & 4
Zone of Proximal Development
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
27. Why isn't an IQ test a good indicator for children over long periods of time?
Psychiatrist
Medicated delivery
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
28. Second step in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Safety
Six or seven months
Cesarean birth
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
29. The name most associated with operant conditioning is who?
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Consciousness
B.F. Skinner
Self-report data
30. Which stage of development is: Initiative vs. Guilt? (trying different roles)
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Sterilization
Figurative language
Preschooler
31. What is the part of the ear that includes the pinna and external auditory canal?
Outer ear
Clinical psychologist
Experimental research
Gradually through shaping
32. Imitation of a past-observed behavior
Cross-modal perception
Telegraphic speech
Deferred imitation
Intestate
33. What is: irrelevant stimuli that compete for our attention (like traffic)
Sympathetic nervous system
Limbic system
Noise
Parasympathetic
34. Time at which most children begin to speak actual words
Timbre
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
Qualitative
10-14 months
35. Read pages 22-25 for charts: Piaget's Stages of Development and Freud's Psychosexual Stages
Avoid punishment
...
Ego
Dyscalcula
36. Defense mechanism: feelings are redirected to someone else
Displacement
Sound waves
90%
Classification
37. Biological theories of aging: the number of cells that have problems or mutations that increase w/ age
Genetic Mutation
Three
Egocentrism
Safety
38. In children babbling begins around age _____ - while in deaf infants babbling usually begins around several months later
Six or seven months
Socialization
Obstetrician-gynecologist
Id - Ego - Super Ego
39. What syndrome occurs when someone two X and one Y chromosome...and what gender does this make?
John Watson
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Psychoanalytical
Rubella
40. Disagreed w/ Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development because his subjects were mainly male
Authoritarian
Telegraphic speech
Developmental norm
Gilligan
41. Experiment where researchers made a baby afraid of rats through classical conditioning
Baby Albert
Freud
Experimental research
Temporal lobe
42. Who argued that if psychology was a true science - then psychologists should only study what they could see and measure (behaviorist theory)?
Oral contraceptives
Hypothalamus
Sublimation
John Watson
43. How much is hearing developed in neonates?
Mostly developed by the time of birth
Correlational research
Cerebellum
Assimilation
44. Why is autism rare in children for the first 2 1/2 years?
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45. A reinforcer that is physical (tangible) or from the environment - like payment for work - or a prize
Self-actualization
Independent variable
Extrinsic reinforcer
Experimental research
46. What percentage of children are affected by hyperactivity?
Three percent
Corpus callosum
6
On chromosomes
47. Which stage of development is: Industry vs. Inferiority? (working with others)
Emotional health
Structuralism
School-age Child
Gestures
48. First development of language; pre-speech
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Cooing
Mental health
Classical conditioning
49. Id - Ego - and Super Ego were all founded by who?
Teratology
Emotional neglect
Self-report data
Sigmund Freud
50. Who proposed fluid/crystallized intelligence?
Raymond Cattell
Cornea
Developmental norm
Divergent thinking
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