WGU C217 Objective Assessment Study Guide| 157 QUESTIONS| WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS

Multidimensional Perspective CORRECT ANSWERS: how cognitive, biological, and socioemotional development influence each other Multidimensionally speaking, if a young boy breaks his leg how will he not develop according to Piaget? CORRECT ANSWERS: He will not be able to develop cognitively because he can't move to experience the world around him What are two examples of how growth expands and shrinks? CORRECT ANSWERS: Fluid intelligence, Crystallized intelligence When does fluid intelligence peak? CORRECT ANSWERS: In early adulthood, then declines When does crystallized intelligence increase CORRECT ANSWERS: continuously Plastic perspective CORRECT ANSWERS: the capacity for change When is a growth mindset most prevalent? CORRECT ANSWERS: In middle childhood because they are aware that they can change and develop. Memory training CORRECT ANSWERS: in older adults it can grow their cognitive abilities Multidisciplinary discipline CORRECT ANSWERS: Any field of study that finds interest in and studies human life and development Contextual development CORRECT ANSWERS: Every part of development happens in some type of context 3 Influences of contextual development CORRECT ANSWERS: normative age, normative history, non-normative Normative age CORRECT ANSWERS: growth and development specific to a certain age (graduation) Normative history CORRECT ANSWERS: A person acts a certain way because they grew up during the Great Depression. Non-Normative life events CORRECT ANSWERS: specific to one person, effects their development. (death of a parent at a young age) 5 Types of perspectives CORRECT ANSWERS: Psychoanalytical, Cognitive, Behavioral, Ecological, Ethological Psychoanalytical Theorists CORRECT ANSWERS: Freud, Erickson