WGU D202 HUMAN GROWTH AND
DEVELOPMENT PRACTICE PAPER 2026
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉Top-Down Processing. Answer: Deductive reasoning, starts with
some overarching principle and based on this proposes specific
conclusions. Guarantees a truthful conclusion if the premises on
which it is based are accurate.
◉Intuitive Thought. Answer: Automatic, unconscious, and rational.
Easier and more commonly used in everyday life.
◉Analytic Thought. Answer: Deliberate, conscious, and rational
◉Negative impacts of divorce on child's development into
adulthood. Answer: Have more relationship problems
Difficulty forming and sustaining intimate relationships
More dissatisfied with their marriage
More likely to get divorced themselves.
Lower levels of education or occupational status.
,◉Impact of blended families on caregivers and children. Answer:
May require more demonstrations of affection for reassurance
confusing for the children if theyare a part of two households with
different rules
Stepparents expect more gratitude and acknowledgment from the
stepchild than a biological child.
Children fear parents will see them as sources of tension.
Steps feel guilty for lack of feelings they initially have toward
children
Child often reacts with hostility, rebellion, or withdrawal when they
are required to respond to step as though they were the child's real
parent
◉Anorexia Nervose. Answer: Lack or loss of appetite for food as a
medical condition
intense fear of gaining weight
disturbance in one's self-evaluation regarding body weight
◉Bulimia Nervosa. Answer: Emotional disorder characterized by a
distorted body image and an obsessive desire to lose weight, in
which bouts of extreme overeating are followed by fasting or self-
induced vomiting or purging.
◉Binge Eating Disorder. Answer: frequent consumption of unusually
large amounts of food and an inability to stop eating.
, ◉Muscle Dysmorphia. Answer: psychological disorder characterized
by the preoccupation with the idea that one's body is not lean and
muscular
◉Identity Diffusion. Answer: Those who have neither explored the
options or made a commitment to an identity
◉Identity Foreclosure. Answer: adolescents have made a
commitment to an identity without having explored the options
◉Identity Moratorium. Answer: Individuals are actively exploring in
an attempt to establish an identity buy have not yet made any
commitment
◉Identity achievement. Answer: adolescents have made an identity
commitment after exploration of all options
◉Ethnic Identity. Answer: Sorting out and resolving positive and
negative feelings and attitudes about one's own ethnic group and
about other groups and identifying one's place in relation to both.
◉MAMA Cycling. Answer: movement back and forth between
moratorium and achievement in the identity exploration process.
DEVELOPMENT PRACTICE PAPER 2026
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉Top-Down Processing. Answer: Deductive reasoning, starts with
some overarching principle and based on this proposes specific
conclusions. Guarantees a truthful conclusion if the premises on
which it is based are accurate.
◉Intuitive Thought. Answer: Automatic, unconscious, and rational.
Easier and more commonly used in everyday life.
◉Analytic Thought. Answer: Deliberate, conscious, and rational
◉Negative impacts of divorce on child's development into
adulthood. Answer: Have more relationship problems
Difficulty forming and sustaining intimate relationships
More dissatisfied with their marriage
More likely to get divorced themselves.
Lower levels of education or occupational status.
,◉Impact of blended families on caregivers and children. Answer:
May require more demonstrations of affection for reassurance
confusing for the children if theyare a part of two households with
different rules
Stepparents expect more gratitude and acknowledgment from the
stepchild than a biological child.
Children fear parents will see them as sources of tension.
Steps feel guilty for lack of feelings they initially have toward
children
Child often reacts with hostility, rebellion, or withdrawal when they
are required to respond to step as though they were the child's real
parent
◉Anorexia Nervose. Answer: Lack or loss of appetite for food as a
medical condition
intense fear of gaining weight
disturbance in one's self-evaluation regarding body weight
◉Bulimia Nervosa. Answer: Emotional disorder characterized by a
distorted body image and an obsessive desire to lose weight, in
which bouts of extreme overeating are followed by fasting or self-
induced vomiting or purging.
◉Binge Eating Disorder. Answer: frequent consumption of unusually
large amounts of food and an inability to stop eating.
, ◉Muscle Dysmorphia. Answer: psychological disorder characterized
by the preoccupation with the idea that one's body is not lean and
muscular
◉Identity Diffusion. Answer: Those who have neither explored the
options or made a commitment to an identity
◉Identity Foreclosure. Answer: adolescents have made a
commitment to an identity without having explored the options
◉Identity Moratorium. Answer: Individuals are actively exploring in
an attempt to establish an identity buy have not yet made any
commitment
◉Identity achievement. Answer: adolescents have made an identity
commitment after exploration of all options
◉Ethnic Identity. Answer: Sorting out and resolving positive and
negative feelings and attitudes about one's own ethnic group and
about other groups and identifying one's place in relation to both.
◉MAMA Cycling. Answer: movement back and forth between
moratorium and achievement in the identity exploration process.
