WGU C217 Complete Answers 100% Correct (Latest 2024) STUDY GUIDE

WGU C217 Complete Answers 100% Correct (Latest 2024) STUDY GUIDE 1. Multidirectional Answer: Some dimensions expand and others shrink 2. Multidimensional Answer: Has biological, cognitive, and socioemotional dimensions 3. Plastic Answer: The capacity for change 4. Lifelong Answer: Early adulthood is not the endpoint of development, no age perioddominates development 5. Multidisciplinary Answer: Various areas ofstudy have an interest in the field of development through the life span 6. Contextual Answer: All development occurs within a context, or setting (social, cultural,and historic factors) 7. Nature Answer: Refers to an organism's biological inheritance. Genetics, personality,appearance 8. Nurture Answer: Refersto an organism's environmental experiences.How much a parentreads with their children is related to how well children learn and enjoy to read. 9. Continuity Answer: Gradual, cumulative change. Oak grows from seedling to giant oak,gradual change but still an oak 10. Discontinuity Answer: Distinct change. Caterpillar to a butterfly. 11. Stability Answer: The result of heredity and possibly early experiences in life. Neg/posexperiences in early life effect a person's development and personality as they age.