WGU C217 Human Growth and Development Questions and Answers

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WGU C217 Human Growth and Development Questions and Answers Nature versus nurture controversy ✔✔experiences (nurture) or genetics (nature) influences development Nature versus nurture differen... ces ✔✔nature preprogrammed and nurture experiences Continuity theories ✔✔Steady growth process Discontinuity (stage) vs Continuity ✔✔Stage is qualitative Child development vs. Life Span Perspective ✔✔Freud and Piaget = child development Erikson = life span Child Development theory ✔✔complete once reach adolescence Life Span theory ✔✔continues throughout life span Universality vs. context-specific development ✔✔Universality (Piaget) = same order and same age Context-specific (Bronfenbrenner) = takes place in various contexts Context-specific development ✔✔Collectivist cultures vs. individualistic cultures changes development Cognitive development theory ✔✔Based on the notion that cognitive abilities are developed as individuals mature physiologically and have opportunity to interact with environment (Piaget) Equilibration of accommodation and assimilation ✔✔Piaget argues that normally we are in this state, when a new stimulus presents we enter state of disequilibrium Accommodation ✔✔Adjusting prior knowledge gained through former experiences and interactions Assimilation ✔✔Fitting together the new information with what has been previously known or understood Constructivism ✔✔Piaget position on learning. Children construct schema, organized patterns of thought or action, Based on the experiences that they have actively exploring the environment Piaget Constructivism ✔✔considered a stage theory Piaget Constructivism Four Stages ✔✔1. Sensorimotor (birth - 2) 2. Preoperational (2-7) 3. Concrete Operations (7-11) 4. Formal Operaitons (11-15) Preoperational stage ✔✔egocentrism, rigidity of thought, semi logical reasoning, limited social cognition Concrete Operations ✔✔Beginning of operational thinking, can perform transformations, understand reversibility, inversion, reciprocity, and conservation, group into categories, make inferences, inductive reasoning Formal Operations ✔✔higher ordered critical thinking, adult thinking, ultimate stage of cognitive development, scientific method, logic [Show More]

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