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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. In a kibbutz - the real parents of children may see them for one hour a day - a time referred to as the __________.
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Hour of love
Middle childhood
Pituitary gland
2. What syndrome happens when a woman smokes while pregnant?
Mentally retarded
Emergency contraception
Old Age
Fetal tobacco syndrome
3. How much is hearing developed in neonates?
Pituitary gland
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Mostly developed by the time of birth
Fluid intelligence
4. What is the term for low IQ and mental age of about 4 years old?
The brain
Mentally retarded
Infant
Fetal death
5. What is: psychological definition for having more equal personality characteristics between male&female?
Heterosexual
True
Androgynous
Celibacy
6. There are usually two groups in an experiment - titled:
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Experimental group and control group
Stage 2
Sexual orientation
7. First element to Vygotsky's theory: what does social interaction facilitate?
Genes
Cognitive improvement
Cerebral palsy
Diaphragm
8. Usually has a doctoral degree in psychology plus an internship; cannot prescribe medicine.
Clinical psychologist
99%
Pavlov; classical conditioning
Esteem needs
9. What are the factors that influence psychosocial health?
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Holophrase syntax
Retina
Rh positive
10. Time at which most children begin to speak actual words
Biological
Cerebral palsy
Cognitive theorist
10-14 months
11. A method of modifying behavior - by ignoring the behavior so you don't have the response
Response extinction
Bias
Cognitive theorist
Structuralism
12. What is the method of surgical delivery?
Olfactory epithelium
Family practitioner
Cesarean birth
12+
13. What are the four lobes of the brain?
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
Free morpheme
Rubella
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
14. 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
Gentle birth
Ego
Five
Amplitude
15. Id - Ego - and Super Ego were all founded by who?
Intrinsic reinforcer
Denial
Sigmund Freud
Spiritual health
16. When people w/in an experiment are assigned to a group randomly
A census
Experimental research
Random assignment
Preschooler
17. What is a disease also called German measles?
Gradually through shaping
Rubella
Independent variable
Base of the skull; size of a pea
18. What is the middle number in a set of data called?
Intrinsic reinforcer
Median
Hurried-child
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
19. Categories of old age: 65-74
Classification
Young-old
Divergent thinkers
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
20. What most-extreme fate does syphillis often cause in infants?
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Miscarriages or stillbirths
Three
Conceive at younger ages
21. What is: where the lens changes its curves to help the eye focus?
Accommodation
Echolalia
Sexual orientation
Self-actualization
22. What is: the gland that controls release of hormones from the gonads?
Id
Pituitary gland
Habituation
Full (46)
23. Anything which makes a behavior more likely to occur
Stimulus generalization
Stage 6
Humanistic
Reinforcer
24. Which thought process is: many ideas are brainstormed to explore many possible solutions; used in creative settings?
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
Divergent thinking
Sympathetic nervous system
Retina
25. Teaches that when a certain action is performed - there are consequences--reinforces good behavior with extrinsic/intrinsic reinforcers
Timbre
1 & 2
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
Operant conditioning
26. Child's realization their sex will stay the same
Dyslexia
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
Sympathetic nervous system
Gender conservation
27. The scientific study of words and sentences
Pituitary gland
Semantics
Longitudinal Study
Projection
28. The repetition of certain syllables
Babbling
Stillbirth
Stage 6
Genetic Mutation
29. Piaget believed that the individual actively constructs knowledge about the world--what is the term for this?
Celibacy
Jean Piaget
Cellular Theory
Cognitive theorist
30. States that infants need to form at least one strong attachment such as to a parent - in order to develop normally
31. What is: your feelings and reactions
Socialization
As they age
Emotional health
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
32. What is: the tone color or perceptual quality of a sound?
Self-efficacy
Timbre
School-age Child
Cones
33. How much alcohol is the safe amount to consume during pregnancy?
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
B.F. Skinner
Six months
None!!
34. How can parents avoid down syndrome in their children?
Condom
Conceive at younger ages
Homosexual
Create and release chemicals into the blood
35. Individual sounds w/ in a word
Phonemes
Psychological Tests
Teratology
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
36. What is the name for the two halves of the brain?
Alzheimer's Disease
Infant
Cones
Cerebrum
37. Method that teaches children to realized their full potential.
The Montessori Method
3
Middle-old
Biological
38. How do you fix the problem of mother's cells attacking the baby's?
Spermicides
Injections
Monocular cues
Suppression
39. The most direct measure of syntax in middle childhood is what?
Emotional health
Double blind
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
Mostly developed by the time of birth
40. Defense mechanism: feelings are redirected to someone else
Psychometrics
Displacement
3
Telegraphic speech
41. Self-esteem begins forming in:
Acceptance
Lewis Terman
Middle childhood
6
42. Why is self-report data not as reliable as other research methods?
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Cross-modal perception
Stillbirth
Structuralism
43. Level 1 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development
Pia mater
Divergent thinking
Preconventional Morality
Quantitative
44. Parenting styles: respects individually - but tries to instill social values
Fetal death
Preschooler
Noise
Authoritative
45. What is: small device to block access to the uterus; left in place with spermicide for 6-8 hours - in order to kill any remaining sperm?
B.F. Skinner
Watching their parents
Diaphragm
Injections
46. In children babbling begins around age _____ - while in deaf infants babbling usually begins around several months later
Cut in half
Six or seven months
Peer group
Self-efficacy
47. How is extinction best achieved?
Informed consent
1 in 14 -000
Peer group
Gradually through shaping
48. Read pages 22-25 for charts: Piaget's Stages of Development and Freud's Psychosexual Stages
...
Correlation coefficient
Visual cliff
IUD
49. First development of language; pre-speech
None!!
Cooing
Dura mater
Dependent variable
50. A child that is always in a hurry
Dizygotic twins
Hurried-child
Women - men
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating