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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. Is there currently a cure for Alzheimer's disease?
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
No
Smell
Maslow
2. Why is autism rare in children for the first 2 1/2 years?
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3. What is the least developed part of a newborn (growth is not complete)?
The brain/the cerebral cortex
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Sigmund Freud
Rationalization
4. What are the three different areas of the Autonomic Nervous System?
Self-actualization
Longitudinal fissure
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Constant
5. When do the two fontanels harden?
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6. Who made the first IQ test?
Alfred Binet
Qualitative
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
4
7. When is anoxia a problem in births?
Hospice
Long labors or birth complications
Punishment
Denial
8. In a child - can be expressed as 'nobody likes me'
Childhood depression
Selective attention
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
Constant
9. The awareness of being a male or female
Autonomic Nervous System
Egocentric behavior
Gender identity
Cochlea
10. What is the drug to cause an abortion in the first 9 weeks of pregnancy?
Structuralism
Humanistic
The brain stem
RU-486
11. What is when the baby is born in a pool or bath with dim lights?
Gentle birth
Dialectical perspective
Avoid punishment
Stage 2
12. What is: relating new information to something familiar
Watching their parents
Amplitude
Independent variable
Elaboration
13. Time at which most children begin to speak actual words
10-14 months
Psychological Tests
Structuralism
Divergent thinking
14. What is the study done to show that infants have depth perception?
Subject
Dyscalcula
Visual cliff
Freud
15. What is: your thoughts - beliefs - attitudes - and values
Cross-modal perception
Mental health
Self-report data
Teratology
16. What is the main relay station for incoming sensory signals to the cerebral cortex - and outgoing motor signals from it?
Classical conditioning
Cephalocaudal
Thalamus
Content validity
17. Environment in which two (or more) children sit side by side - or near each other - and play without interacting with the other child or trying to influence them in any way. Most children engage in this type of enviornment.
Parallel play
None!!
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
1 in 14 -000
18. Sigmund Freud's analysis of human personality and subconscious drives features three main components including:
Frontal lobe
A census
Androgynous
Id - Ego - Super Ego
19. Defined as diseases which are either related to or caused by a sedentary lifestyle - in other words - caused by the lack of regular exercise or activity
Cerebellum
Hypokinetic diseases
Natural prepared childbirth
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
20. 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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21. What is: the theory based on biology; belief that behavior and personality are linked to genetics
6-12
Three
Young-old
Biological
22. What is the name for depth perception cues made with one eye?
Monocular cues
Syphillis and rubella
Mainstreaming
No correlation
23. Second development of language - still pre-speech; repetition of meaningful sounds
Egocentrism
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
Babbling
Id - Ego - Super Ego
24. What is: an M.D. who specializes in OB-GYN?
Recall
RU-486
Obstetrician-gynecologist
Mostly developed by the time of birth
25. What do endocrine glands do?
Cognitive theorist
Create and release chemicals into the blood
Negative reinforcer
Strong correlation
26. Which thought process is: many ideas are brainstormed to explore many possible solutions; used in creative settings?
Gestures
Set high standards - assist along the way
Divergent thinking
No
27. When one variable increase - another variable increases. We call this a what?
Positive Correlation
90%
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
Negative Correlation
28. What is: the study of substances which are harmful to prenatal development?
Cellular Theory
Teratology
Gene
The Montessori Method
29. Contains the psychic content related to the primitive instincts of the body - notably sex and aggression - functioning entirely according to the pleasure-pain principle - seeking either immediate fulfillment or settling for a compromise fulfillment
Id
Preconventional Morality
Old Age
Personality
30. What do doctors agree is the best way to feed babies?
Breast-feeding
On chromosomes
Outer ear
Longitudinal fissure
31. 1 -2 -2 -2 -3 -3 -5 -8 -9 -9. What is the mode?
2
Gene
Kibbutz
Wear-and-Tear Theory
32. What 4 main problems do fetal alcohol syndrome cause?
Fontanels
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
IUD
Echolalia
33. Whatmakes a person able to see objects are they are - in 3 dimensions?
Sublimation
Pavlov; classical conditioning
Frontal lobe
Depth perception
34. Which part of the ANS is the arousing part of the system?
Celibacy
Smell
Sympathetic nervous system
Free morpheme
35. When people are followed and studied over a long period of time and checked up on at certain points
Old-old
Longitudinal Study
Hospice
3-7
36. What sends commands to all other parts of the body?
Celibacy
Erogenous zones
Developmental norm
The brain stem
37. What are the 8 psychological approaches?
Divergent thinking
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
True
Cognitive
38. Which protective brain layer is the strongest and thickest?
Sexual identity
Dura mater
The penis doesn't grow and breasts may develop.
Preconventional Morality
39. What is: term used to describe a person's belief that they can perform a task successfully?
Self-efficacy
Three
Cooing
Vygotsky
40. Who created structuralism?
Pupil
Wilhelm Wundt
Retina
The cloth monkey
41. Recent research supports that children learn from listening to their parents talk to them in 'baby talk'; which aspect of language is this?
Operant Conditioning
Social aspect of language
Hollow phrases
Self-report data
42. First step in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs such as food water and shelter
Preparatory Depression
Physical needs
Experimental research
In vitro fertilization
43. What is another name for a newborn?
Vygotsky
Alzheimer's Disease
Stage 1
Neonate
44. A system which uses operant conditioning to make less probable actions more likely to occur by using more probable actions as reinforcers
The Premack Principle
School-age Child
9-15
Egocentric behavior
45. What is: your thoughts about what gives life purpose--the meaning of life - religion
Olfactory sense
Cerebral anoxia
4
Spiritual health
46. What is a learning disability in math - where concepts are learned one day and forgotten the next?
Pitch
Puberty
School-age Child
Dyscalcula
47. Third development of language
Hollow phrases
Correlational research
Medicated delivery
Cerebral cortex
48. Pavlovs famous classical conditioning dog experiment.
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Midwife
Heterosexual
Miscarriages or stillbirths
49. Level 3 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
Lewis Terman
Cephalocaudal
5 & 6
Figurative language
50. Jean Piaget extensively used which research method to study children?
Positive reinforcer
Regression
Functionalism
Natural observation