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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. What is the main relay station for incoming sensory signals to the cerebral cortex - and outgoing motor signals from it?
Echolalia
Thalamus
Permissive
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
2. A signal to society that certain rules have changed - this person is no longer a child
Multiple caretakers
Infant
Crystallized intelligence
Rite of Passage
3. What is the name of the largest commissure?
6-12
Corpus callosum
Strong correlation
Old Age
4. What is the most popular method for giving birth?
Medicated delivery
Rubella
Laboratory observation
Hypokinetic diseases
5. A communication style in which single words are used to communicate - typical of toddlers learning to speak - for example 'give' or 'mama'. The meaning is still understood even though complete sentences are not used
Maslow
Babbling
Experimental research
Holophrase syntax
6. What is: a progesterone shot given every three months?
Psychiatrist
Operant Conditioning
Depo-Provera
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
7. Why did studies used by Piaget and Freud lead to wrong conclusions?
Mode
They were not scientifically performed
Harry Harlow
Pituitary gland
8. Defense mechanism: Turning a feeling into the exact opposite feeling
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Reaction Formation
Stage 6
Perception
9. What system is made up of the hypothalamus and other glands?
Depth perception
Intestate
Endocrine system
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
10. In a child - can be expressed as 'nobody likes me'
Harry Harlow
Timbre
Childhood depression
Absolute threshold
11. The integrator between the outer and inner worlds - as well as the id and the superego. Gives continuity and consistency to behavior by providing a personal point of reference - which relates to the events of the past and actions of the present and o
Ego
Correlation coefficient
Emotional neglect
Base of the skull; size of a pea
12. In a case study - a single individual called a _____ is intensely studied
Lewis Terman
Subject
Parallel play
Monocular cues
13. What is the white part of the eye that protects and manages the shape of the eye?
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
Selera
Psychiatrist
Heterosexual
14. The variable in which the researcher has direct control over
Independent variable
Limbic system
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
Gender conservation
15. Believing women followed a different progression than men - she called the moral progression of the woman what?
Morality of Care
Amplitude
12+
Medicated delivery
16. The larger the sample:
The more accurate the result
Allow the skull's plates of bone to shift or flex - making childbirth easier.
Autoerotic behavior
Infants were placed on a solid - opaque surface - and the mothers were placed at the end of the table - where the opaque ended and glass begun. The infants didn't want to cross the glass because they could see the distance between themselves and the
17. What is the characteristic that: you fill in areas that we do not have complete information about?
Biological
Dependent variable
Accommodation
Creative
18. Categories of old age: 85+
Echolalia
Absolute threshold
Old-old
Occipital lobe
19. Types of child play in chronological order:
Puberty
Abstinence
Monocular cues
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
20. In children babbling begins around age _____ - while in deaf infants babbling usually begins around several months later
Acceptance
Childhood depression
Operant conditioning
Six or seven months
21. What is: the most developed - and largest (80%) - part of the brain?
Conceive at younger ages
Gentle birth
Around age two
Cerebral cortex
22. There are usually two groups in an experiment - titled:
Rubella
6
Accommodation
Experimental group and control group
23. What is: when a sample is taken from the fluid in the amniotic sac - to be tested for diseases or genetic traits?
Cut in half
Amniocentesis
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
Selective
24. When one variable increase - another variable increases. We call this a what?
Dyscalcula
Positive Correlation
Psychological Tests
Stage 6
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. What is a learning disability in math - where concepts are learned one day and forgotten the next?
Dyscalcula
Heterosexual
Hippocampus
Self-concept
27. What are the four areas of taste that taste-buds recognize?
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
The brain
Avoid punishment
Lens
28. Who was the psychoanalyst who documented stages of emotional growth in regards to babies?
The brain
Erik Erikson
Norplant
Natural observation
29. What is: psychological definition for having more equal personality characteristics between male&female?
Authoritative
Androgynous
Toddler
Operant Conditioning
30. What is: the process of working something out in your head; shows the difference between young children (act and try things out) and older (can do things in their heads)
Operation
The right hand - right eye - and speech
Stimulus generalization
Middle childhood
31. What is: your thoughts about what gives life purpose--the meaning of life - religion
Cooing
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying
Best friend
Spiritual health
32. The most direct measure of syntax in middle childhood is what?
Nurture
Class inclusion
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
33. What is: long lasting contraceptive where six capsules are injected in a woman's arm?
Norplant
Autonomic Nervous System
John Watson
Infant
34. Which protective brain layer is mostly blood vessels?
Cognitive improvement
Pia mater
Creative
Extrinsic reinforcer
35. Time at which most children begin to speak actual words
10-14 months
Cones
Intestate
Ageism
36. When does language development begin?
John Watson
Six months
Hypokinetic diseases
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
37. What is: not being involved in a sexual relationship?
Celibacy
Dialectical perspective
Social aspect of language
In vitro fertilization
38. What is: the method to prevent an egg and sperm from being able to access each other?
B.F. Skinner
Stage 6
Contraception
9-15
39. What is: the type of thought that has to do with factual information--trivia - vocabulary - science - history?
Natural prepared childbirth
Reaction Formation
Teratogens
Crystallized intelligence
40. Level 3 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
5 & 6
Oral contraceptives
Inner ear
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
41. What controls breathing and heart rate?
Consciousness
Pons
Intrinsic reinforcer
Id
42. What is: an M.D. who specializes in OB-GYN?
Obstetrician-gynecologist
The more accurate the result
Limbic system
Functionalism
43. What do physicians recommend to prevent SIDS?
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
Selera
Authoritative
Contraception
44. What most-extreme fate does syphillis often cause in infants?
Full (46)
Miscarriages or stillbirths
Stillbirth
Base of the skull; size of a pea
45. Parenting styles: respects individually - but tries to instill social values
Sampling
Authoritative
Gilligan
Operation
46. 1 -2 -2 -2 -3 -3 -5 -8 -9 -9. What is the mode?
Social learning theory
2
Social health
Hypokinetic diseases
47. Who created the first scientific psychology laboratory?
Wilhelm Wundt
Infant
Selera
Reaction Formation
48. What is: where the lens changes its curves to help the eye focus?
Crystallized intelligence
Occipital lobe
Accommodation
Structuralism
49. The process of unassociating the condition with the response
Peer group
Extinction
Gender
True
50. Teaches that when a certain action is performed - there are consequences--reinforces good behavior with extrinsic/intrinsic reinforcers
Subject
Operant conditioning
Mostly developed by the time of birth
Raymond Cattell