WGU C217 Practice Exam Questions With All Correct Answers.
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Multidirectional - Answer Some dimensions expand and others shrink
multidimensional - Answer Has biological, cognitive, and socioemotional dimensions
plastic - Answer The capacity for change
lifelong - Answer Early adulthood is not the endpoint of development, no age period dom...
WGU C217 Practice Exam Questions
With All Correct Answers.
Multidirectional - Answer Some dimensions expand and others shrink
multidimensional - Answer Has biological, cognitive, and socioemotional dimensions
plastic - Answer The capacity for change
lifelong - Answer Early adulthood is not the endpoint of development, no age period dominates
development
Multidisciplinary - Answer Various areas of study have an interest in the field of development through
the life span
Contextual - Answer All development occurs within a context, or setting (social, cultural, and historic
factors)
Nature - Answer Refers to an organism's biological inheritance. Genetics, personality, appearance
Nurture - Answer Refers to an organism's environmental experiences. How much a parent reads with
their children is related to how well children learn and enjoy to read.
Continuity - Answer Gradual, cumulative change. Oak grows from seedling to giant oak, gradual change
but still an oak
Discontinuity - Answer Distinct change. Caterpillar to a butterfly.
Stability - Answer The result of heredity and possibly early experiences in life. Neg/pos experiences in
early life effect a person's development and personality as they age.
,Change - Answer Later experiences in life can alter a person's development. A person can grow/alter
later in life due to recent changes/experiences.
Freud - Answer Psychoanalytical. Psychosexual. Personality shaped during first 5 years of life. Focus for
pleasure evolves from anus to mouth.
Erikson - Answer 8 stages of development. Also psychoanalytical. Primary motivation for human
behavior is social
Piaget - Answer Cognitive theorist. Children go through 4 stages of development. Organization and
adaptation underlie the cognitive construct of the world.
Vygotsky - Answer Cognitive theorist. Believed children actively constructed their knowledge. His
theory is sociocultural cognitive theory. Emphasized how culture and social interaction guide cognitive
development
Information processing - Answer Emphasized that individuals manipulate information, monitor it, and
strategize about it. Individuals develop a gradually increasing capacity for processing information
Operant conditioning - Answer Created by B.F. Skinner. Reward vs punishment. Consequences of
actions shape the occurrence of that action
Bandura's social cognitive model - Answer Behavior, environment, and cognition are key factors in
development. Cognitive processes have important links with environment and behavior
Ecological theory - Answer Emphasized environmental factors and holds that development reflects the
influence of several environmental systems. 5 systems: Microsystems, mesosystem, exosystem,
macrosystem, and chronosystem
Ethology - Answer Stresses that behavior is strongly influenced by biology and is tied to evolution, and
is characterized by critical or sensitive periods.
, How does Erikson's theory differ from that of Freud? - Answer Erikson believed development is social
rather than sexual
What are the 8 stages of Erikson's development in order? - Answer Trust vs mistrust
Autonomy vs shame and doubt
Initiative vs guilt
Industry vs inferiority
Identity vs identity confusion
Intimacy vs isolation
Generativity vs stagnation
Integrity vs despair
What are Piaget's 4 stages of development in order? - Answer Sensorimotor
Preoperational
Concrete operational
Formal operational
Descriptive research. - Answer Aims to observe and record behavior.
Correlational - Answer Describe the strength of the relationship between two ore more events
/characteristics. The effect of one subject on another.
Experimental - Answer Carefully regulated study in which one or more factors believed to influence the
behavior being studied are manipulated while other factors are held constant
Case study - Answer an in-depth look at a single individual
Cross-sectional - Answer individuals of different ages are compared at one time
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