WGU C217 Objective Assessment Study
Guide Questions and Answers Rated A
Multidimensional Perspective ✔✔how cognitive, biological, and socioemotional development
influence each other
Multidimensionally speaking, if a young boy breaks his leg how will he not develop according to
Piaget? ✔✔He will not be able to develop cognitively because he can't move to experience the
world around him
What are two examples of how growth expands and shrinks? ✔✔Fluid intelligence, Crystallized
intelligence
When does fluid intelligence peak? ✔✔In early adulthood, then declines
When does crystallized intelligence increase ✔✔continuously
Plastic perspective ✔✔the capacity for change
When is a growth mindset most prevalent? ✔✔In middle childhood because they are aware that
they can change and develop.
Memory training ✔✔in older adults it can grow their cognitive abilities
Multidisciplinary discipline ✔✔Any field of study that finds interest in and studies human life and
development
Contextual development ✔✔Every part of development happens in some type of context
, 3 Influences of contextual development ✔✔normative age, normative history, non-normative
Normative age ✔✔growth and development specific to a certain age (graduation)
Normative history ✔✔A person acts a certain way because they grew up during the Great
Depression.
Non-Normative life events ✔✔specific to one person, effects their development. (death of a parent
at a young age)
5 Types of perspectives ✔✔Psychoanalytical, Cognitive, Behavioral, Ecological, Ethological
Psychoanalytical Theorists ✔✔Freud, Erickson
Behavioral theorists ✔✔Skinner, Bandura
Cognitive theorists ✔✔Piaget, Vgotsky
Ecological Theorist ✔✔Bronfenbrenner
Ethological perspective ✔✔Behavior is strongly influenced by biology and evolution.
Characterized by specific periods of development.
Psychoanalytical perspective ✔✔-Unconscious forces
- early experiences
both shape development
Cognitive perspective ✔✔social and cultural interaction guide development
Guide Questions and Answers Rated A
Multidimensional Perspective ✔✔how cognitive, biological, and socioemotional development
influence each other
Multidimensionally speaking, if a young boy breaks his leg how will he not develop according to
Piaget? ✔✔He will not be able to develop cognitively because he can't move to experience the
world around him
What are two examples of how growth expands and shrinks? ✔✔Fluid intelligence, Crystallized
intelligence
When does fluid intelligence peak? ✔✔In early adulthood, then declines
When does crystallized intelligence increase ✔✔continuously
Plastic perspective ✔✔the capacity for change
When is a growth mindset most prevalent? ✔✔In middle childhood because they are aware that
they can change and develop.
Memory training ✔✔in older adults it can grow their cognitive abilities
Multidisciplinary discipline ✔✔Any field of study that finds interest in and studies human life and
development
Contextual development ✔✔Every part of development happens in some type of context
, 3 Influences of contextual development ✔✔normative age, normative history, non-normative
Normative age ✔✔growth and development specific to a certain age (graduation)
Normative history ✔✔A person acts a certain way because they grew up during the Great
Depression.
Non-Normative life events ✔✔specific to one person, effects their development. (death of a parent
at a young age)
5 Types of perspectives ✔✔Psychoanalytical, Cognitive, Behavioral, Ecological, Ethological
Psychoanalytical Theorists ✔✔Freud, Erickson
Behavioral theorists ✔✔Skinner, Bandura
Cognitive theorists ✔✔Piaget, Vgotsky
Ecological Theorist ✔✔Bronfenbrenner
Ethological perspective ✔✔Behavior is strongly influenced by biology and evolution.
Characterized by specific periods of development.
Psychoanalytical perspective ✔✔-Unconscious forces
- early experiences
both shape development
Cognitive perspective ✔✔social and cultural interaction guide development
