WGU PSYCH D094 OA LATEST EXAM REAL EXAM 100 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS (100% VERIFIED ANSWERS) |AGRADE

WGU PSYCH D094 OA LATEST EXAM 2023-2024 REAL EXAM

100 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS (100% VERIFIED

ANSWERS) |AGRADE

Sensorimotor Stage (Piaget) - ANSWER- from birth to 2 years, motor activity

Pre-operational Stage (Piaget) - ANSWER- from 2 years to 7 years, development

of language, memory, and imagination (symbolically)

Concrete Operational Stage (Piaget) - ANSWER- from 7 years to 11 years, logical

thinking

Formal Operational Stage (Piaget) - ANSWER- adolescence to adulthood, abstract

thoughts

Physical Development - ANSWER- a developmental process that refers to the

physical growth of a person's body

Cognitive Development - ANSWER- the development of thinking, problem

solving, and memory

Piaget's Theory - ANSWER- Theory stating that children actively construct their

understanding of the world and go through four stages of cognitive development.

Vygotsky's Theory - ANSWER- A sociocultural cognitive theory that emphasizes

how culture and social interaction guide cognitive development.

Erikson's Theory - ANSWER- Theory that proposes eight stages of human

development. Each stage consists of a unique developmental task that confronts

individuals with a crisis that must be resolved.

Trust versus Mistrust

(Erikson) - ANSWER- Infants learn basic trust if the world is a secure place where

their basic needs are met

Autonomy versus Shame and Doubt (Erikson) - ANSWER- Erikson's second crisis

of psychosocial development. Toddlers either succeed or fail in gaining a sense of

self-rule over their actions and their bodies.

Initiative versus Guilt (Erikson) - ANSWER- Pre-school children initiating

activities and asserting control.

Industry versus Inferiority (Erikson) - ANSWER- The fourth of Erikson's eight

psychosocial crises, during which children attempt to master many skills,

developing a sense of themselves as either industrious or inferior, competent or

incompetent.

Identity versus Role Confusion (Erikson) - ANSWER- Erikson's term for the fifth

stage of development, in which the person tries to figure out "who am I?" but is

confused as to which of many possible roles to adopt

Intimacy versus Isolation (Erikson) - ANSWER- Erikson's sixth stage of

development. Adults see someone with whom to share their lives in an enduring

and self-sacrificing commitment. Without such commitment, they risk profound

aloneness and isolation.

Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory - ANSWER- Holds that behavior, environment,

and person/cognitive factors are the key factors in development

Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development - ANSWER- Developing children

progress through a predictable sequence of stages of moral reasoning

(preconventional, conventional, postconventional).

Preconventional - ANSWER- Kohlberg's stage of moral development in which

rewards and punishments dominate moral thinking

Conventional - ANSWER- Uphold laws and rules to gain social approval or

maintain social order

Postconventional - ANSWER- Right and wrong determined by society's rules

which are viewed as fallible rather than absolute or by abstract ethical principles

that emphasize equality and justice

Gilligan's Theory - ANSWER- The theory suggesting that there is a different

process of moral development in women than in men.

Chomsky's Theory - ANSWER- Children have an inborn ability to learn language

through exposure to it, not being taught it.

Skinner's Theory - ANSWER- Theory proposed that we learn language through

association, imitation and reinforcement

Vygotsky's language theory - ANSWER- Social learning

Language Development - ANSWER- the process by which children come to

understand and communicate language during early childhood

Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) - ANSWER- Vygotsky's concept of the

difference between what a child can do alone and what that child can do with the

help of a teacher (scaffolding)

Intelligence Theories - ANSWER- varying ways that psychologists conceptualize

what is meant to be "smart"

Behaviorist Theory - ANSWER- Personality is constructed by a series of learning

experiences that occur through interactions between the individual and their

environment.

Cognitivist Theory - ANSWER- A research approach that emphasizes how the

human mind receives, processes, stores, and retrieves information in learning and

retrieving information.

Humanistic Theory - ANSWER- An explanation of behavior that emphasizes the

entirety of life rather than individual components of behavior and focuses on

human dignity, individual choice, and self-worth

cooperative learning - ANSWER- small groups of classmates work toward

common goals

collaborative learning - ANSWER- Learning that takes place when students work

in groups to discuss and solve problems together.

Constructivist Theory - ANSWER- Piaget's theory, in which cognitive

development results from children's active construction of reality, based on their

experiences with the world

Physical Development: Infants - ANSWER- * Hold up heads

* Roll over