WGU D665 LEARNER DEVELOPMENT UPDATED FINAL
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Erikson's trust vs. mistrust (birth to 12 months) - ✔✔• Provide love, care, and food
• Need comfort and safety
✔✔Erikson's autonomy vs shame and doubt (Ages 1-3) - ✔✔• "Me Do" stage
• Need for
independence
• Insist on doing things on their own
• Dress myself
• Feed myself
*independence and decision making
✔✔Erikson's initiative vs. guilt (ages 3-6) - ✔✔• Exploration
• Trying new things on their own
• Asking lots of questions
✔✔Erikson's industry vs. Inferiority (ages 6-12) - ✔✔• Intellectual curiosity
• School performance
• Need positive reinforcement
• Praise
• Avoid undue competition or criticism
✔✔Erikson's identity vs. role confusion (ages 12-19) - ✔✔-Develop a sense of self
-influenced by others' reactions
-Peers are more important than parents or teachers
-social role models
-figuring out what they want to do after high school
✔✔Piaget sensorimotor (0-2) - ✔✔-grabbing
-sucking
-looking
-listening
-reflexive or active
✔✔Piaget preoperational (2-7) - ✔✔• Play and pretend
• Symbolic thinking
• Language develops
• Forms many new schemes
• Egocentrism (focus on self, self-centered)
• Centration (focus on only one aspect at a time)
✔✔Piaget concrete operational (7-11) - ✔✔• Need concrete, hands-on experiences
• Mental reversal (balloons inflate-deflate)
, • Seriation
• Sortina
• Classifying
• Conservation (tall skinny glass and short fat glass hold the same amount of liquid)
✔✔Piaget formal operational (12+) - ✔✔• Abstract thinking
• Critical thinking
• Hypothesize
• Predict
• Metaphors
• Mental manipulations
• Systemic problem-solving
✔✔Behaviorism - ✔✔Ex: Pavlov dogs
sheds light on how external stimuli shape behavior, emphasizing the focus on
observable behaviors rather than internal mental processes
✔✔cognitivism - ✔✔"Brain" ;seeks to understand the internal processes involved in
learning, such as perception, memory, problem-solving, and decision-making
✔✔Bloom's Taxonomy - ✔✔Bloom's revised taxonomy: a framework that categorizes
educational objectives into six levels of cognitive complexity:
1. remembering, 2. understanding, 3. applying, 4. analyzing, 5. evaluating, and 6.
creating
✔✔Contructivism - ✔✔a prominent theory in education combining cognitive and social
elements, emphasizing active learning, student-centered instruction, and the
construction of knowledge through personal experiences and interactions
✔✔Humanism - ✔✔emphasis on holistic development of students, focusing on their
emotional well-being and personal growth alongside intellectual learning.
✔✔Where is the limbic system located? - ✔✔Deep in the brain, involved in emotion and
memory
✔✔Which brain structure is responsible for higher-level thinking? - ✔✔Frontal lobe /
Cerebral cortex
✔✔Which function is associated with the cerebellum? - ✔✔Motor control
✔✔What is encoding in learning? - ✔✔Transforming sensory input into a usable form
✔✔What is storage in the learning process? - ✔✔Holding processed information for
later use
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Erikson's trust vs. mistrust (birth to 12 months) - ✔✔• Provide love, care, and food
• Need comfort and safety
✔✔Erikson's autonomy vs shame and doubt (Ages 1-3) - ✔✔• "Me Do" stage
• Need for
independence
• Insist on doing things on their own
• Dress myself
• Feed myself
*independence and decision making
✔✔Erikson's initiative vs. guilt (ages 3-6) - ✔✔• Exploration
• Trying new things on their own
• Asking lots of questions
✔✔Erikson's industry vs. Inferiority (ages 6-12) - ✔✔• Intellectual curiosity
• School performance
• Need positive reinforcement
• Praise
• Avoid undue competition or criticism
✔✔Erikson's identity vs. role confusion (ages 12-19) - ✔✔-Develop a sense of self
-influenced by others' reactions
-Peers are more important than parents or teachers
-social role models
-figuring out what they want to do after high school
✔✔Piaget sensorimotor (0-2) - ✔✔-grabbing
-sucking
-looking
-listening
-reflexive or active
✔✔Piaget preoperational (2-7) - ✔✔• Play and pretend
• Symbolic thinking
• Language develops
• Forms many new schemes
• Egocentrism (focus on self, self-centered)
• Centration (focus on only one aspect at a time)
✔✔Piaget concrete operational (7-11) - ✔✔• Need concrete, hands-on experiences
• Mental reversal (balloons inflate-deflate)
, • Seriation
• Sortina
• Classifying
• Conservation (tall skinny glass and short fat glass hold the same amount of liquid)
✔✔Piaget formal operational (12+) - ✔✔• Abstract thinking
• Critical thinking
• Hypothesize
• Predict
• Metaphors
• Mental manipulations
• Systemic problem-solving
✔✔Behaviorism - ✔✔Ex: Pavlov dogs
sheds light on how external stimuli shape behavior, emphasizing the focus on
observable behaviors rather than internal mental processes
✔✔cognitivism - ✔✔"Brain" ;seeks to understand the internal processes involved in
learning, such as perception, memory, problem-solving, and decision-making
✔✔Bloom's Taxonomy - ✔✔Bloom's revised taxonomy: a framework that categorizes
educational objectives into six levels of cognitive complexity:
1. remembering, 2. understanding, 3. applying, 4. analyzing, 5. evaluating, and 6.
creating
✔✔Contructivism - ✔✔a prominent theory in education combining cognitive and social
elements, emphasizing active learning, student-centered instruction, and the
construction of knowledge through personal experiences and interactions
✔✔Humanism - ✔✔emphasis on holistic development of students, focusing on their
emotional well-being and personal growth alongside intellectual learning.
✔✔Where is the limbic system located? - ✔✔Deep in the brain, involved in emotion and
memory
✔✔Which brain structure is responsible for higher-level thinking? - ✔✔Frontal lobe /
Cerebral cortex
✔✔Which function is associated with the cerebellum? - ✔✔Motor control
✔✔What is encoding in learning? - ✔✔Transforming sensory input into a usable form
✔✔What is storage in the learning process? - ✔✔Holding processed information for
later use
