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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Which receptor is used for color vision?
Cones
Gender role stereotypes
Emotional neglect
Olfactory sense
2. The repetition of certain syllables
Amplitude
Babbling
Stage 3
Social health
3. What is the thought process that considers an idea or belief (thesis) and acknowledges the idea's opposite (antithesis)?
Autism
Dialectical perspective
The brain stem
Nature vs. nurture
4. What does the left half of the brain control?
Classical conditioning
Telegraphic speech
Cones
The right hand - right eye - and speech
5. Stages of friendship: one way assistance
Classification
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
4-9
Preschooler
6. What is a disease also called German measles?
Reciprocal determinism
Rubella
Celibacy
Ego
7. When can a person's short term memory become incapacitated?
Olfactory epithelium
IUD
As they age
Middle ear
8. Which protective brain layer is mostly blood vessels?
4-9
Mainstreaming
Pia mater
Old Age
9. How much alcohol is the safe amount to consume during pregnancy?
Super Ego
None!!
Invincibility fable
4
10. What are: chemicals designed to kill sperm?
Spermicides
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
Emergency contraception
Three
11. Who proposed fluid/crystallized intelligence?
Absolute threshold
4-9
Raymond Cattell
Phonemes
12. 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
Divergent thinking
Constant
Hypokinetic diseases
Hollow phrases
13. What is: sheath of thin latex designed to catch sperm upon ejaculation?
Condom
Wilhelm Wundt
Bound morpheme
Id
14. Which stage of development is: Ego Integrity vs. Despair? (what they have done with their life)
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
Old Age
Self-actualization
Regression
15. Level 3 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
Heterosexual
Cochlea
Autism
5 & 6
16. What is: the representation in the mind of a set of perceptions - ideas - and actions - which go together
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Gender
Schema
Stillbirth
17. 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?
Operant conditioning
Loudness
Structuralism
Reaction Formation
18. How many PAIRS of chromosomes do body cells have?
Stage 5
23 pairs
Longitudinal fissure
IUD
19. What is the name of the largest commissure?
A will
Adolescent Egocentrism
Corpus callosum
Hollow phrases
20. A system which uses operant conditioning to make less probable actions more likely to occur by using more probable actions as reinforcers
Denial (Shock)
Francis Bacon--16th century
Gestalt psychology
The Premack Principle
21. 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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22. What is being able to reproduce knowledge from memory?
Recall
Gender roles
Object permanence
The cloth monkey
23. What is the rating system to judge a baby's functionality when first born?
Childhood depression
Three
The right hand - right eye - and speech
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
24. According to both Kohlberg and Piaget - the most immature reason to do something is to:
Multiple caretakers
Avoid punishment
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Social aspect of language
25. What is the most extreme outcome of a woman drinking during her pregnancy?
Fetal death
Laboratory observation
Stage 4
Accommodation
26. What do physicians recommend to prevent SIDS?
Classical conditioning
Cesarean birth
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
4-9
27. What is: areas of the body which - when touched - lead to sexual arousal?
Spermicides
Erogenous zones
Lewis Terman
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
28. The negative effects of sensory deprivation (not as much attention) are more likely to _______ w/ the length of the stage.
Nature vs. nurture
Denial
Genes
Increase
29. What is: your feelings and reactions
Operant conditioning
Class inclusion
Emotional health
Daydreaming
30. Stages of friendship: two way - fair weathered
...
Self-concept
6-12
Erik Erikson
31. What are the factors that influence psychosocial health?
Vygotsky
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Negative Correlation
Spermicides
32. When people of different ages are studied at one particular time
Adolescent
Cross Sectional Study
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
Independent variable
33. What is: generalizations about each gender - such as that men are aggressive and logical - and women are nurturing and emotional
Longitudinal fissure
Psychometrics
Gender role stereotypes
Psychological Tests
34. What thought process characterizes creative - gifted - or advanced children?
Egocentrism
Classification
Divergent thinkers
Behaviorism
35. What is: a period in a child's development in which he/she is capable of understanding some things but not others
Reciprocal determinism
Gentle birth
Stage
Recognition
36. 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
Survey
Nature vs. nurture
Autoerotic behavior
Hour of love
37. Which thought process is a creative process?
Divergent thinking
Bisexual
Id - Ego - Super Ego
Positive reinforcer
38. Who created functionalism?
William James
Id - Ego - Super Ego
Depth perception
Raymond Cattell
39. What are the two directions of growth in the embryo?
Fetal death
Structuralism
Psychological maltreatment
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
40. What is the enzyme deficiency that can cause mental retardation without treatment?
Outer ear
Pituitary gland
Schema
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
41. What is: when a sample is taken from the fluid in the amniotic sac - to be tested for diseases or genetic traits?
They were not scientifically performed
Amniocentesis
Perception
Celibacy
42. How is IQ calculated?
The infant wants to be in proximity of the person who cares for them as a form of self-preservation. If a child feels that their caregiver is nearby and attentive - they feel confident to explore their surroundings. If not - they feel anxious and ove
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
Stimulus generalization
Convergent thinking
43. Gilligan believed that ________ conflicted between self and other - while ________ conflicted between self and justice
Extinction
Ageism
Women - men
Positive Correlation
44. What are: general term for the reproductive organs in a male or female?
Pia mater
Gonads
Longitudinal Study
Extinction
45. Parenting styles: 'because I say so'--more prevalent in lower-class families
Authoritarian
Intrinsic reinforcer
Bisexual
Cross Sectional Study
46. What is another term for the system of hearing?
Naturalistic observation
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Alzheimer's Disease
Auditory System
47. What is: a mix of gender identity - gender roles - and orientation; recognition of ourselves as sexual beings.
Sexual identity
B.F. Skinner
Social health
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
48. What is: attraction to the opposite sex?
Permissive
Rods
Heterosexual
Bargaining
49. Which stage of development is: Trust vs. Mistrust?
Rods
Infant
Hollow phrases
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
50. When do the two fontanels harden?
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