Helwig NCE & CPCE Prep (HGrD)
Questions and Answers 100% Pass
What is the definition of development? (HGrD) ✔✔Systematic changes and continuities in the
individual that occurs between conception and death.
What are t
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Helwig NCE & CPCE Prep (HGrD)
Questions and Answers 100% Pass
What is the definition of development? (HGrD) ✔✔Systematic changes and continuities in the
individual that occurs between conception and death.
What are the three broad areas of systematic change in development? (HGrD) ✔✔Three broad
areas such as physical development, cognitive development, and psychosocial development.
The theories which can explain how humans grow and develop fall into these following broad
categories. (HGrD) ✔✔There are the learning theories including behavioral theories, cognitive
theories, psychoanalytic including the Neo-Freudian, and humanistic psychology included with
self theories.
Human growth and development changes can be viewed from these comparative concepts. (HGrD)
✔✔Qualitative or quantitative, continuous or discontinuous, and mechanistic or organismic.
What is a qualitative view of change in human growth and development? (HGrD) ✔✔Qualitative
change principle is that change occurs in structure or organization (for example, sexual
development).
What is quantitative view of change in human growth and development? (HGrD) ✔✔Quantitative
view of change is in number, degree or frequency (content changes, for example, intellectual
development)
What is considered as the continuous view of change when it comes to human growth and
development? (HGrD) ✔✔A continuous model states that change is sequential and cannot be
separated easily (for example, personality development)
What is considered in the discontinuous view of change in human growth and development?
(HGrD) ✔✔The discontinuous view attributes growth and development as certain changes in
abilities or behaviors that can be separated from others which delineates stages of development
(for example, language development).
What is the mechanistic view of change in human growth and development? (HGrD)
✔✔Mechanistic model states development and growth as those changes that are the reduction of
all behavior to common elements (for example, instinctual or reflexive behavior)
What is the organismic model of change in human growth and development? (HGrD)
✔✔Organismic model states that because of new stages, there is change or discontinuity;
development and growth is more than just stimulus-response. The organism is involved including
the use of cognition An example of this model comes from theories on moral or ethical
development.
What is the definition of self-concept? (HGrD) ✔✔Self-concept may be defined as your perception
of your qualities, attributes, and traits.
What is the theoretical self-concept at birth? (HGrD) ✔✔At birth, infants have no sense of self. In
early months this quickly changes.
By 24 months, what is the theoretical self-concept for most infants? (HGrD) ✔✔Most infants, by
24 months, show signs of self recognition; they are able to identify social categories they are in
i.e. age and gender, "who is like me and wh
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