WGU D664
WGU D664 Objective Assessment Final
Exam 2025
involves activities that engage the senses—touch, sight, hearing, smell, and taste—
helping children explore and understand the world around them
Sensory Exploration
This stage involves a child's journey toward independence and decision-making
autonomy versus shame/doubt stage
Infants learn to rely on caregivers for their basic needs, fostering trust—while
inconsistency in meeting these needs can lead to mistrust, suspicion, and anxiety about
their environment.
trust versus mistrust stage
the understanding that something still exists even though it cannot be seen or heard
object permanence
Infants (0-2 years old) explore through senses and actions, developing an understanding
of object permanence and laying cognitive foundations
sensorimotor stage
The transition from the sensorimotor stage to the preoperational stage is marked by
mastery of object permanence, recognition of themselves as separate from their
environment, and the realization that they can affect the objects and people
around them.
Cognitive Transition
Children know the world through movement and their senses. They learn through
grasping, sucking, looking,
and listening.
sensorimotor
At about 18 months old, a child transitions from the crisis of trust-mistrust to the crisis
of autonomy-shame/doubt. This transition is marked by the desire to accomplish daily
tasks by themselves. When children feel safe trying tasks on their own, even though they
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may not yet be capable, they
move into the next stage.
Social Transition to Autonomy - shame vs doubt
Supporting children's independence without overly controlling or criticizing allows them
to develop feelings of accomplishment
and responsibility.
Autonomy
Somewhere around age three, a child transitions
from autonomy to initiative. This transition is marked by the desire to assert control over
the environment and by increased social, physical,
and cognitive exploration.
Autonomy to initiative stage
Erikson's PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT THEORY
TRUST vs.
MISTRUST • Provide love, care,
and food • Need comfort and
safety
Birth - 12 months
AUTONOMY vS.
SHAME & DOUBT
• "Me Do" stage • Need for
independence • Insist on doing things
on their own
• Dress myself
• Feed myself
Ages 1-3 years, Eriksons psychological development theory
INITIATIVE vS.
GUILT
• Exploration • Trying new things on
their own • Asking lots of
questions
WGU D664
WGU D664 Objective Assessment Final
Exam 2025
involves activities that engage the senses—touch, sight, hearing, smell, and taste—
helping children explore and understand the world around them
Sensory Exploration
This stage involves a child's journey toward independence and decision-making
autonomy versus shame/doubt stage
Infants learn to rely on caregivers for their basic needs, fostering trust—while
inconsistency in meeting these needs can lead to mistrust, suspicion, and anxiety about
their environment.
trust versus mistrust stage
the understanding that something still exists even though it cannot be seen or heard
object permanence
Infants (0-2 years old) explore through senses and actions, developing an understanding
of object permanence and laying cognitive foundations
sensorimotor stage
The transition from the sensorimotor stage to the preoperational stage is marked by
mastery of object permanence, recognition of themselves as separate from their
environment, and the realization that they can affect the objects and people
around them.
Cognitive Transition
Children know the world through movement and their senses. They learn through
grasping, sucking, looking,
and listening.
sensorimotor
At about 18 months old, a child transitions from the crisis of trust-mistrust to the crisis
of autonomy-shame/doubt. This transition is marked by the desire to accomplish daily
tasks by themselves. When children feel safe trying tasks on their own, even though they
WGU D664
, WGU D664
may not yet be capable, they
move into the next stage.
Social Transition to Autonomy - shame vs doubt
Supporting children's independence without overly controlling or criticizing allows them
to develop feelings of accomplishment
and responsibility.
Autonomy
Somewhere around age three, a child transitions
from autonomy to initiative. This transition is marked by the desire to assert control over
the environment and by increased social, physical,
and cognitive exploration.
Autonomy to initiative stage
Erikson's PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT THEORY
TRUST vs.
MISTRUST • Provide love, care,
and food • Need comfort and
safety
Birth - 12 months
AUTONOMY vS.
SHAME & DOUBT
• "Me Do" stage • Need for
independence • Insist on doing things
on their own
• Dress myself
• Feed myself
Ages 1-3 years, Eriksons psychological development theory
INITIATIVE vS.
GUILT
• Exploration • Trying new things on
their own • Asking lots of
questions
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