WGU C217 Study guide with Verified Solutions

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WGU C217 Study guide with Verified Solutions what are the five characteristics of development ✔✔life long, multidirectional, contexual, multidisciplinary, multidimensional what does it mean wh ... en development is lifelong? ✔✔Early adulthood is not the endpoint of development; no age period dominates development Development is multidimensional ✔✔Has biological, cognitive, and socioemotional dimensions development is multidirectional ✔✔Some dimensions expand and others shrink Development is plastic ✔✔The capacity for change what does it mean when development is multidisciplinary ✔✔Various areas of study have an interest in the field of development through the life span development is contextual ✔✔All development occurs within a context, or setting (social, cultural, and historic factors) What is development by nature? ✔✔refers to an organism's biological inheritance what is development by nurture? ✔✔its environmental experiences example of development by nature ✔✔beliefs that genetics is the cause. Personality learned by parents, homosexuality is genetic or out of someones control, health risks passed on from parent to child example of development by nurture ✔✔Obestiy is caused by poor eating habits, homosexuality is a choice, education is learned by environmental aspects and not genetics what is development by continuity? ✔✔change is gradual What is development by discontinuity? ✔✔change is in distinct stages example of development by discontinuity ✔✔an insect growing through distinct stagescaterpillar, chrysalis, butterfly example of development by continuity ✔✔a child gradually learning to walk - crawl, stand, and then walk what is development by stability? ✔✔we become older renditions of our early experience what is development by change? ✔✔we develop into someone different from who we were at an earlier point example of development by stability ✔✔being shy due to hereditary or experiences at a young age example of development by change ✔✔personalities are modified by interactions among family and experiences what are the Psychoanalytic and Psychosocial Theories ? ✔✔Freud and Erikson theory what are the cognitive theories? ✔✔Piaget, Vygotsky, and information processing what are the Behavioral and Social Cognitive Theory ✔✔Skinners Operant conditioning and Banduras Social cognitive model what are the Ecological Theory? ✔✔Ethology and [Show More]

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