WGU C217 Questions and Answers Latest 2022

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