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WGU C217 Questions and Answers Latest 2022 Multidirectional ✔✔Some dimensions expand and others shrink multidimensional ✔✔Has biological, cognitive, and socioemotional dimensions plastic �... ��✔The capacity for change lifelong ✔✔Early adulthood is not the endpoint of development, no age period dominates development Multidisciplinary ✔✔Various areas of study have an interest in the field of development through the life span Contextual ✔✔All development occurs within a context, or setting (social, cultural, and historic factors) Nature ✔✔Refers to an organism's biological inheritance. Genetics, personality, appearance Nurture ✔✔Refers to an organism's environmental experiences. How much a parent reads with their children is related to how well children learn and enjoy to read. Continuity ✔✔Gradual, cumulative change. Oak grows from seedling to giant oak, gradual change but still an oak Discontinuity ✔✔Distinct change. Caterpillar to a butterfly. Stability ✔✔The result of heredity and possibly early experiences in life. Neg/pos experiences in early life effect a person's development and personality as they age. Change ✔✔Later experiences in life can alter a person's development. A person can grow/alter later in life due to recent changes/experiences. Freud ✔✔Psychoanalytical. Psychosexual. Personality shaped during first 5 years of life. Focus for pleasure evolves from anus to mouth. Erikson ✔✔8 stages of development. Also psychoanalytical. Primary motivation for human behavior is social Piaget ✔✔Cognitive theorist. Children go through 4 stages of development. Organization and adaptation underlie the cognitive construct of the world. Vygotsky ✔✔Cognitive theorist. Believed children actively constructed their knowledge. His theory is sociocultural cognitive theory. Emphasized how culture and social interaction guide cognitive development Information processing ✔✔Emphasized that individuals manipulate information, monitor it, and strategize about it. Individuals develop a gradually increasing capacity for processing information Operant conditioning ✔✔Created by B.F. Skinner. Reward vs punishment. Consequences of actions shape the occurrence of that action Bandura's social cognitive model ✔✔Behavior, environment, and cognition are key factors in development. Cognitive processes have important links with environment and behavior Ecological theory ✔✔Emphasized environmental factors and holds that development reflects the influence of several environmental systems. 5 systems: Microsystems, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem, and chronosystem Ethology ✔✔Stresses that behavior is strongly influenced by biology and is tied to evolution, and is characterized by critical or sensitive periods. How does Erikson's theory differ from that of Freud? ✔✔Erikson believed development is social rather than sexual What are the 8 stages of Erikson's development in order? ✔✔Trust vs mistrust Autonomy vs shame and doubt Initiative vs guilt Industry vs inferiority Identity vs identity confusion Intimacy vs isolation Generativity vs stagnation Integrity vs despair What are Piaget's 4 stages of development in order? ✔✔Sensorimotor Preoperational Concrete operational Formal operational Descriptive research. ✔✔Aims to observe and record behavior. Correlational ✔✔Describe the strength of the relationship between two ore more events /characteristics. The effect of one subject on another. Experimental ✔✔Carefully regulated study in which one or more factors believed to influence the behavior being studied are manipulated while other factors are held constant Case study ✔✔an in-depth look at a single individual Cross-sectional ✔✔individuals of different ages are compared at one time Longitudinal ✔✔describes research that measures a trait in a particular group of subjects over a long period of time Genotype ✔✔genetic makeup of an organism Phenotype ✔✔An organism's physical appearance, or visible traits. List 3 examples of chromosomal abnormalities ✔✔Down syndrome Fragile x Turner syndrome List 3 examples of genetic abnormalities ✔✔Sickle cell anemia Spina bifida Phenylketonuria What is the goal of the field of beh [Show More]

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