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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is: the process by which a society identifies its expectations?
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
As they age
Socialization
Homosexual
2. What is: the type of thought related to numerical and intellectual puzzles--with both quick & creative responses?
Gonads
Increase
Fluid intelligence
Frequency
3. What is the chance of a baby having PKU?
A will
Dialectical perspective
Mendel
1 in 14 -000
4. Which thought process is: many ideas are brainstormed to explore many possible solutions; used in creative settings?
A census
Allow the skull's plates of bone to shift or flex - making childbirth easier.
Creative
Divergent thinking
5. Which protective brain layer is mostly blood vessels?
Correlational research
Pia mater
Social learning theory
Fluid intelligence
6. What is: a child (especially preschool age) doesn't take into consideration other people's needs--their perceptions are limited to their own point of view
Morality of Justice
Egocentric behavior
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
The Montessori Method
7. An environment where children live and attend school
Occipital lobe
...
Hypothalamus
Peer group
8. Who believed that the unconscious motivates our actions - through the id - ego - and superego?
Babbling
B.F. Skinner
Freud
Functionalism
9. Level 1 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
Cerebral palsy
Preconventional Morality
1 & 2
Prenatal development
10. What do physicians recommend to prevent SIDS?
Spermicides
Cones
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
Morality of Care
11. What is: a mix of gender identity - gender roles - and orientation; recognition of ourselves as sexual beings.
Noise
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
Qualitative
Sexual identity
12. What is: the theory centered on behavior; see person as blank slate upon which impressions of experiences can be recorded.
Correlation Research
Long labors or birth complications
Behavioral
Nurture
13. Babies are rewarded with food/attention with they say 'mama' etc - so they continue to say those words and learn new ones; what idea does this theory follow?
Six months
Classical conditioning
Operant conditioning
Telegraphic speech
14. First step in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs such as food water and shelter
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
Cerebellum
Physical needs
Valid
15. There are usually two groups in an experiment - titled:
Peer group
Toddler
2
Experimental group and control group
16. Where nursing care is given meant to maximize the quality of life for someone who is dying
Hospice
Wear-and-Tear Theory
Six or seven months
Down syndrome
17. What is: any pill designed to prevent pregnancy?
Cellular Theory
Oral contraceptives
Survey
Five
18. What are: the harmful substances to a developing fetus?
Accommodation
Teratogens
Timbre
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
19. What is the medical means to terminate a pregnancy?
Abortion
Mendel
School-age Child
Stage
20. When one variable increases while another variable decreases. We call this a what?
Six or seven months
Childhood depression
Negative Correlation
Super Ego
21. What is the sense that gives information about balance and body movement? (if your body is moving - tilting - etc.)
Long labors or birth complications
Bargaining
Kibbutz
Vestibular sense
22. The ethical component of the personality and provides the moral standards by which the ego operates
Social learning theory
5 & 6
Super Ego
Puberty
23. Who did the experiment with baby monkeys about affection and love?
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Gender
Lewis Terman
Harry Harlow
24. Which stage of development is: Generativity vs. Stagnation? (giving to the next generation)
Psychological maltreatment
Lewis Terman
Closure
Middle-age Adult
25. Therapy that involves the whole family
Family therapy
Independent variable
Invincibility fable
Inner ear
26. Believed each person had an idea of a 'perfect person' and tried to work towards being like that person as much as possible - believing that people needed to become 'fully functioning' individuals
Regression
Perception
Six months
Carl Rogers
27. What syndrome occurs when someone two X and one Y chromosome...and what gender does this make?
Loudness
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Genes
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
28. What are the four characteristics of perception?
Consciousness
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Conception
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
29. What is: the method to prevent an egg and sperm from being able to access each other?
Diaphragm
Contraception
Puberty
Fontanels
30. Which part of the ANS is the calming part of the system?
Morality of Care
Divergent thinking
Freud
Parasympathetic
31. What coordinates all movements and muscles?
Cerebellum
Self-esteem
Sexually transmitted diseases
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
32. What is: attraction to the opposite sex?
Natural prepared childbirth
Middle-old
Organ of corti
Heterosexual
33. Third stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'If you don't die I will do the following...'
Short attention span
Constant
Parietal lobe
Bargaining
34. A test that gives information about a participant including standardized tests such as aptitude - interest - and personality tests
Psychological Tests
Stage 3
Breast-feeding
Gentle birth
35. What is: structures in the cerebral cortex related to memory and emotion?
Pitch
Limbic system
Obstetrician-gynecologist
Pupil
36. What is the ability to identify correctly something encountered before?
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
Survey
Recognition
37. Which part of the ANS is the arousing part of the system?
Pitch
Sympathetic nervous system
Nature vs. nurture
Limbic system
38. When a researcher observes and studies subjects w/o interacting or interfering w/ them
Naturalistic observation
Mentally retarded
Genes
B.F. Skinner
39. If you are A positive blood - what is that in terms of Rh factor?
Rubella
Amniocentesis
Rh positive
Permissive
40. What is: another form of consciousness involving very little effort; dreaming while awake or letting the mind wander?
Wear-and-Tear Theory
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Id - Ego - Super Ego
Daydreaming
41. A morpheme that must be w/ a word
Bound morpheme
Cut in half
Invincibility fable
6-12
42. In a kibbutz - the real parents of children may see them for one hour a day - a time referred to as the __________.
Hour of love
The penis doesn't grow and breasts may develop.
The Montessori Method
Independent variable
43. How is extinction best achieved?
Gender identity
Prenatal development
Psychometrics
Gradually through shaping
44. Four steps of the scientific method include:
Independent variable
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
Negative reinforcer
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
45. What syndrome happens when a woman smokes while pregnant?
Short attention span
Parallel play
Fetal tobacco syndrome
A will
46. A disorder where the bones are weakened and become porous - like a sponge
Childhood depression
Pitch
Osteoporosis
Crystallized intelligence
47. A set of cases of people randomly chosen from a large group to represent that large group
Sampling
Correlation coefficient
Alzheimer's Disease
Lewis Terman
48. In a study - the researchers have direct control over this variable
Spermicides
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
Independent variable
Conservation
49. Child's realization their sex will stay the same
Placebo effect
Teratology
School-age Child
Gender conservation
50. What two things make up the central nervous system?
William James
Amplitude
School-age Child
Brain and spinal cord