WGU Educational Psychology &
Development of Children and
Adolescents (2022/2023) (Correct
Answers)
Piaget ✔✔Believed we learn from interaction with peers and environment
Preconventional ✔✔All about me
Conventional ✔✔All about rules or laws
Postconventional ✔✔All about others
Kohlberg ✔✔Stages of Moral Development- Preconventional, Conventional, Postconventional
Chomsky ✔✔Theory of Universal Grammar- Innate/Biological
Babbling- 6 to 8 months ✔✔Consonant-vowel combinations (ba-ba, ma-ma)
, Holophrastic- 9 to 18 months ✔✔Single words represent a sentence (up, juice, mine)
Two-Word- 18 to 24 months ✔✔Mini sentences (doggy bark, me play)
Telegraphic- 24 to 30 months ✔✔Vocabulary increases. Use mostly nouns and verbs, omits
auxiliary words (Carrie want ball, I good boy today)- early multiword stage
Later multiword stage- 30+ months ✔✔5+ word sentences, fastest vocabulary increase.
Sentences formed with improving grammar, structure
Skinner ✔✔Operant conditioning and language development- children learn language based on
reinforcement
Operant Conditioning and Language Development ✔✔Children learn language based on
reinforcement, learn language through imitating, prompting, shaping, they associate words with
meanings, correct utterances are positively reinforced- Skinner
Vygotsky ✔✔Social approach to language development
Development of Children and
Adolescents (2022/2023) (Correct
Answers)
Piaget ✔✔Believed we learn from interaction with peers and environment
Preconventional ✔✔All about me
Conventional ✔✔All about rules or laws
Postconventional ✔✔All about others
Kohlberg ✔✔Stages of Moral Development- Preconventional, Conventional, Postconventional
Chomsky ✔✔Theory of Universal Grammar- Innate/Biological
Babbling- 6 to 8 months ✔✔Consonant-vowel combinations (ba-ba, ma-ma)
, Holophrastic- 9 to 18 months ✔✔Single words represent a sentence (up, juice, mine)
Two-Word- 18 to 24 months ✔✔Mini sentences (doggy bark, me play)
Telegraphic- 24 to 30 months ✔✔Vocabulary increases. Use mostly nouns and verbs, omits
auxiliary words (Carrie want ball, I good boy today)- early multiword stage
Later multiword stage- 30+ months ✔✔5+ word sentences, fastest vocabulary increase.
Sentences formed with improving grammar, structure
Skinner ✔✔Operant conditioning and language development- children learn language based on
reinforcement
Operant Conditioning and Language Development ✔✔Children learn language based on
reinforcement, learn language through imitating, prompting, shaping, they associate words with
meanings, correct utterances are positively reinforced- Skinner
Vygotsky ✔✔Social approach to language development
