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WGU D167 PSYCHOLOGY EXAM WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS | LATEST UPDATE
2026 FULL BLUEPRINT
Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development - Answer Moral development takes
place in stages and awareness of other people increases at each stage
Kholberg's stages of moral development - Answer preconventional,
conventional, postconventional
Crystalized Intelligence - Answer Accumulated knowledge and increases as we
age.
Inquiry based learning - Answer Students learn by engaging in a range of
different investigations that are descriptive or experimental
Discovery Learning - Answer students are encouraged to learn largely on their
own through active involvement with concepts and principles, and teachers
encourage students to have experiences and conduct experiments that
permit them to discover principles for themselves
Direct Instruction - Answer Developed by Siegried for underpriveleged at risk
youth. Curriculum based, step by step instruction, quick checks, mastery
Sequential learning - Answer must be performed in a specific sequence
Working Memory - Answer Captures pictures and does phonological loop
Long term memory - Answer Experiences create automated response
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Declarative Memory - Answer Symantic Episodic
Humanistic Theory kkl; - Answer Individual focused learning based on free will,
self actualization. The approach studies the whole person. People are
basically good and have an innate need to make themselves and the world
better.
Development of disorders and learning barriers - Answer acquired
through culture and environmental factors
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Kohlberg & Heinz Dilema - Answer Obeying the law vs. saving a life
Level 1: Preconventional - Answer follows rules to avoid unpleasant
consequences
Level 2 Conventional - Answer Lives up to expectations of others. Fulfills
duties and obligations of social system. Upholds laws.
Level 3 Postconventional - Answer Individual's disobey rules and challenge
laws that do not align with their own principles.
classical conditioning - Answer a type of learning in which one learns to link
two or more stimuli and anticipate events
operant conditioning - Answer the learning of voluntary behavior through the
effects of pleasant and unpleasant consequences to responses
Carol Gilligan - Answer moral development studies to follow up Kohlberg. She
studied girls and women and found that they did not score as high on his six
stage scale because they focused more on relationships rather than laws and
principles. Their reasoning was merely different, not better or worse
Carol Gilligan stages - Answer 1. Pre conventional: I love myself
2. Conventional: I love you more than I love myself
3. Post conventional: I love you and I love myself
Chomsky's Language Acquisition Device - Answer every child is born with the
knowledge to acquire language
WGU D167 PSYCHOLOGY EXAM WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS | LATEST UPDATE
2026 FULL BLUEPRINT
Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development - Answer Moral development takes
place in stages and awareness of other people increases at each stage
Kholberg's stages of moral development - Answer preconventional,
conventional, postconventional
Crystalized Intelligence - Answer Accumulated knowledge and increases as we
age.
Inquiry based learning - Answer Students learn by engaging in a range of
different investigations that are descriptive or experimental
Discovery Learning - Answer students are encouraged to learn largely on their
own through active involvement with concepts and principles, and teachers
encourage students to have experiences and conduct experiments that
permit them to discover principles for themselves
Direct Instruction - Answer Developed by Siegried for underpriveleged at risk
youth. Curriculum based, step by step instruction, quick checks, mastery
Sequential learning - Answer must be performed in a specific sequence
Working Memory - Answer Captures pictures and does phonological loop
Long term memory - Answer Experiences create automated response
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Declarative Memory - Answer Symantic Episodic
Humanistic Theory kkl; - Answer Individual focused learning based on free will,
self actualization. The approach studies the whole person. People are
basically good and have an innate need to make themselves and the world
better.
Development of disorders and learning barriers - Answer acquired
through culture and environmental factors
, 3
Kohlberg & Heinz Dilema - Answer Obeying the law vs. saving a life
Level 1: Preconventional - Answer follows rules to avoid unpleasant
consequences
Level 2 Conventional - Answer Lives up to expectations of others. Fulfills
duties and obligations of social system. Upholds laws.
Level 3 Postconventional - Answer Individual's disobey rules and challenge
laws that do not align with their own principles.
classical conditioning - Answer a type of learning in which one learns to link
two or more stimuli and anticipate events
operant conditioning - Answer the learning of voluntary behavior through the
effects of pleasant and unpleasant consequences to responses
Carol Gilligan - Answer moral development studies to follow up Kohlberg. She
studied girls and women and found that they did not score as high on his six
stage scale because they focused more on relationships rather than laws and
principles. Their reasoning was merely different, not better or worse
Carol Gilligan stages - Answer 1. Pre conventional: I love myself
2. Conventional: I love you more than I love myself
3. Post conventional: I love you and I love myself
Chomsky's Language Acquisition Device - Answer every child is born with the
knowledge to acquire language
