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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology

Subjects : dsst, psychology
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What two things make up the central nervous system?






2. Level 2 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages






3. Types of child play in chronological order:






4. Who argued that if psychology was a true science - then psychologists should only study what they could see and measure (behaviorist theory)?






5. What is: the bumps on top of the tongue that contain taste buds?






6. Stages that a person goes through when they find out they have an incurable disease or find out they are going to die

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7. What is another term for the system of hearing?






8. What is: your thoughts - beliefs - attitudes - and values






9. What is: attraction to the same sex?






10. What is the term to describe the thinking part of health?






11. Visible signs of aging include:

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12. Third development of language






13. Rang the bell each time he fed the dog; eventually how early did the dogs start salivating?






14. What is: the realization that objects stay the same even when they are made to look different?






15. What is the term for low IQ and mental age of about 4 years old?






16. What are the four characteristics of perception?






17. What do children in early language development not understand?






18. What is: the ear's interpretation of a sound's frequency






19. What is: dynamic blend of our experiences - heredity - environment - etc. which determines how we react to problems/issues?






20. Is there currently a cure for Alzheimer's disease?






21. The scientific study of words and sentences






22. What is: attraction to the opposite sex?






23. What is: areas of the body which - when touched - lead to sexual arousal?






24. A way of obtaining information about a specific type of information in which questionnaires are given out to participants who are then asked to answer the questions to the best of their ability






25. Why does a gamete have a half set of chromosomes?






26. What is the part of the ear that includes the pinna and external auditory canal?






27. Who conducted a longitudinal study of smart kids - resulting that they become happy adults?






28. The best way to teach children values is?






29. What is the very critical period of the first 3 months in the womb?






30. Piaget believed that the individual actively constructs knowledge about the world--what is the term for this?






31. Biological theories of aging: like everything else in the world - the human body wears out






32. What are the three things to monitor - to measure temperament in infants?






33. When one variable increases while another variable decreases. We call this a what?






34. What is the part in the back of the eye that includes receptors called rods and cones?






35. The final stage of Maslow's Hierarchy of needs. A stage you may never actually meet.






36. Third step in Maslow's Hierarchy of needs in which you may want to meet needs of belongings and love through relationships






37. What is: a person's attraction to other people?






38. When people are followed and studied over a long period of time and checked up on at certain points






39. Who created structuralism?






40. When people of different ages are studied at one particular time






41. The negative effects of sensory deprivation (not as much attention) are more likely to _______ w/ the length of the stage.






42. What is being able to reproduce knowledge from memory?






43. Deaf children will often be more proficient at communicating through _______ than do hearing infants - often being able to sign at ten months old






44. 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






45. When can a person's short term memory become incapacitated?






46. Stages of friendship: Momentary playmates






47. Self-esteem begins forming in:






48. Four steps of the scientific method include:






49. How does the pupil work?






50. A link between a stimulus and a response in which a person or animal associates or substitutes a neutral stimulus with the actual stimulus