WGU D094 COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE
2026 FULL QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
◍ Long-term Memory.
Answer: The relatively permanent storage of information. Cognitivism
◍ Objective.
Answer: How the goal will be achieved
◍ Vygotsky's Theory of Cognitive Development.
Answer: Lev Vygotsky's sociocultural theory that emphasized the important
role of social interactions in the development of children's cognition.
◍ Schema.
Answer: Categories of knowledge that help us to interpret and understand
the world. An organized pattern of behavior or thought.
◍ Learning Outcomes.
Answer: what the student should be able to produce or achieve
◍ Logical-Mathematical Intelligence.
Answer: Ability to develop equations and proofs, make calculations, and
solve abstract problems.
◍ Alternative Assessment.
Answer: Test designed by teacher to gauge students' understanding of
material.
◍ Stage 2 of Bandura's Observational Learning.
Answer: Retention this is the stage where symbolic coding, cognitive
organization, and cognitive rehearsal takes place
◍ Industry vs. Inferiority.
, Answer: Elementary need to compare themselves to peers and see how they
measure up.
◍ Preconventional Stage.
Answer: Moral development stage where your behavior is influenced by
rewards and punishments
◍ Inquiry-based Learning.
Answer: Allow students to have choices in how they learn and what they
relate new information with.
◍ Constructivism.
Answer: about how people learn. It says that people construct their own
understanding and knowledge of the world, through experiencing things and
reflecting on those experiences.
◍ Objective Assessment.
Answer: Right/Wrong answer
◍ Intellectual Disability.
Answer: A condition where a person has certain limitations like
communicating, taking care of themselves, and impaired social skills.
◍ Childhood-onset Fluency Disorder (Stuttering).
Answer: Disruption in the flow of speech and includes repetitions of speech
sounds, hesitations, or prolongations of speech sounds.
◍ Multiple Intelligence Theory.
Answer: Intelligence consists of several abilities and talents that are
independent and unrelated to each other.
◍ Physical Instructional Context.
Answer: Worksheets, textbooks, lab equipment, computers
◍ Childhood-onset Fluency Disorder (Stuttering).
Answer: Disruption in the flow of speech and includes repetitions of speech
sounds, hesitations, or prolongations of speech sounds.
◍ Equilibration.
, Answer: The attempt to strike a balance between assimilation and
accommodation. The tendency to organize schemas.
◍ Behaviorist Theory.
Answer: Personality is constructed by a series of learning experiences that
occur through interactions between the individual and their environment.
◍ Law and Orientation stage 4 conventional.
Answer: Child blindly accepts rules and conventions because of their
importance in maintaining a functioning society "if one person breaks the
law perhaps everyone would" mindset
◍ Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development.
Answer: 8 stages of identify development where people are motivated by the
need to achieve competence in certain areas of their lives.
◍ Object Permanence.
Answer: The understanding that objects continue to exist even when they
cannot be seen. Major development of sensorimotor stage.
◍ Accomodation.
Answer: Process of changing cognitive structures (schema) in order to
accept something from the environment. Can also develop new schemas.
◍ Initiative vs. Guilt.
Answer: Preschoolers need for initiating activities. Pushing physical and
social boundaries.
◍ Mixed Receptive-expressive Language Issues.
Answer: Struggle with both using and understanding language.
◍ Intrinsic Motivation.
Answer: Act of doing something without any obvious external rewards.
◍ Social Cognitive Theory.
Answer: Learning happens in a social concept and is impacted by the
person, environment, and behavior.
◍ Maslow's Physiological Need.
, Answer: Biological needs for survival, food, water, shelter
◍ classical conditioning.
Answer: a type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli
and anticipate events just happens
◍ Behavioral Disorders.
Answer: Persistent pattern of behaviors that disrupt a student's functioning
or that of the class.
◍ extrinsic barriers.
Answer: are barriers external to the person that impose limitations on that
person's ability to participate or gain access
◍ Self-Efficacy Theory.
Answer: Beliefs become a primary, explicit explanation for motivation.
◍ integrity vs despair.
Answer: Erikson's final stage in which those near the end of life look back
and evaluate their lives, accept value of life experiences, satisfaction v
regret. Either satisfied with life or regret opportunities they missed
◍ Object Permanence.
Answer: The understanding that objects continue to exist even when they
cannot be seen. Major development of sensorimotor stage.
◍ Brain Injury Implications.
Answer: Personality and mood changes, mental health difficulties, visual or
memory impairments, attention difficulties, headaches.
◍ telegraphic speech.
Answer: Using words that have meaning and serve a purpose. 2 word
sentences for most part. But NOT two word speech. Can be more then two
words in a sentence early speech stage in which a child speaks like a
telegram—"go car"—using mostly nouns and verbs.
◍ Industry vs. Inferiority.
Answer: Elementary need to compare themselves to peers and see how they
2026 FULL QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
◍ Long-term Memory.
Answer: The relatively permanent storage of information. Cognitivism
◍ Objective.
Answer: How the goal will be achieved
◍ Vygotsky's Theory of Cognitive Development.
Answer: Lev Vygotsky's sociocultural theory that emphasized the important
role of social interactions in the development of children's cognition.
◍ Schema.
Answer: Categories of knowledge that help us to interpret and understand
the world. An organized pattern of behavior or thought.
◍ Learning Outcomes.
Answer: what the student should be able to produce or achieve
◍ Logical-Mathematical Intelligence.
Answer: Ability to develop equations and proofs, make calculations, and
solve abstract problems.
◍ Alternative Assessment.
Answer: Test designed by teacher to gauge students' understanding of
material.
◍ Stage 2 of Bandura's Observational Learning.
Answer: Retention this is the stage where symbolic coding, cognitive
organization, and cognitive rehearsal takes place
◍ Industry vs. Inferiority.
, Answer: Elementary need to compare themselves to peers and see how they
measure up.
◍ Preconventional Stage.
Answer: Moral development stage where your behavior is influenced by
rewards and punishments
◍ Inquiry-based Learning.
Answer: Allow students to have choices in how they learn and what they
relate new information with.
◍ Constructivism.
Answer: about how people learn. It says that people construct their own
understanding and knowledge of the world, through experiencing things and
reflecting on those experiences.
◍ Objective Assessment.
Answer: Right/Wrong answer
◍ Intellectual Disability.
Answer: A condition where a person has certain limitations like
communicating, taking care of themselves, and impaired social skills.
◍ Childhood-onset Fluency Disorder (Stuttering).
Answer: Disruption in the flow of speech and includes repetitions of speech
sounds, hesitations, or prolongations of speech sounds.
◍ Multiple Intelligence Theory.
Answer: Intelligence consists of several abilities and talents that are
independent and unrelated to each other.
◍ Physical Instructional Context.
Answer: Worksheets, textbooks, lab equipment, computers
◍ Childhood-onset Fluency Disorder (Stuttering).
Answer: Disruption in the flow of speech and includes repetitions of speech
sounds, hesitations, or prolongations of speech sounds.
◍ Equilibration.
, Answer: The attempt to strike a balance between assimilation and
accommodation. The tendency to organize schemas.
◍ Behaviorist Theory.
Answer: Personality is constructed by a series of learning experiences that
occur through interactions between the individual and their environment.
◍ Law and Orientation stage 4 conventional.
Answer: Child blindly accepts rules and conventions because of their
importance in maintaining a functioning society "if one person breaks the
law perhaps everyone would" mindset
◍ Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development.
Answer: 8 stages of identify development where people are motivated by the
need to achieve competence in certain areas of their lives.
◍ Object Permanence.
Answer: The understanding that objects continue to exist even when they
cannot be seen. Major development of sensorimotor stage.
◍ Accomodation.
Answer: Process of changing cognitive structures (schema) in order to
accept something from the environment. Can also develop new schemas.
◍ Initiative vs. Guilt.
Answer: Preschoolers need for initiating activities. Pushing physical and
social boundaries.
◍ Mixed Receptive-expressive Language Issues.
Answer: Struggle with both using and understanding language.
◍ Intrinsic Motivation.
Answer: Act of doing something without any obvious external rewards.
◍ Social Cognitive Theory.
Answer: Learning happens in a social concept and is impacted by the
person, environment, and behavior.
◍ Maslow's Physiological Need.
, Answer: Biological needs for survival, food, water, shelter
◍ classical conditioning.
Answer: a type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli
and anticipate events just happens
◍ Behavioral Disorders.
Answer: Persistent pattern of behaviors that disrupt a student's functioning
or that of the class.
◍ extrinsic barriers.
Answer: are barriers external to the person that impose limitations on that
person's ability to participate or gain access
◍ Self-Efficacy Theory.
Answer: Beliefs become a primary, explicit explanation for motivation.
◍ integrity vs despair.
Answer: Erikson's final stage in which those near the end of life look back
and evaluate their lives, accept value of life experiences, satisfaction v
regret. Either satisfied with life or regret opportunities they missed
◍ Object Permanence.
Answer: The understanding that objects continue to exist even when they
cannot be seen. Major development of sensorimotor stage.
◍ Brain Injury Implications.
Answer: Personality and mood changes, mental health difficulties, visual or
memory impairments, attention difficulties, headaches.
◍ telegraphic speech.
Answer: Using words that have meaning and serve a purpose. 2 word
sentences for most part. But NOT two word speech. Can be more then two
words in a sentence early speech stage in which a child speaks like a
telegram—"go car"—using mostly nouns and verbs.
◍ Industry vs. Inferiority.
Answer: Elementary need to compare themselves to peers and see how they
