WGU C217 Study guide with Verified
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what are the five characteristics of development ✔✔life long, multidirectional, contexual,
multidisciplinary, multidimensional
what does it mean when development is lifelo
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WGU C217 Study guide with Verified
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what are the five characteristics of development ✔✔life long, multidirectional, contexual,
multidisciplinary, multidimensional
what does it mean when 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
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