WGU Educational Psychology
and Development of Children
and Adolescents - D094
Graph that shows that individuals must satisfy a basic series of needs before they can reach
their full potential. - correct answer ✔✔Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Physiological needs ( water, food) - correct answer ✔✔Maslow’s Needs level 1
Safety and security ( Place to live, physical or financial safety - correct answer ✔✔Maslow’s
needs level 2
Love and acceptance. Love and belonging needs involve interpersonal relationships—
friendships, intimacy, trust, romance and love, and being part of a group. - correct answer
✔✔Maslow’s needs level 3
Esteem needs include self-respect, respect from others, achievement, independence, status,
and prestige. - correct answer ✔✔Maslow’s needs level 4
Self- actualizations personal growth and fulfillment and the realization of one's personal
potential as a human being (as Maslow put it—a desire "to become everything one is capable of
becoming.") - correct answer ✔✔Maslow’s needs level 5
0-2 years old Sensorimotor stage. Using there senses and very active. Learn Object permanence
- correct answer ✔✔Piaget Theory Stage 1
, 2- 7 years old preoperational good at pretend play and egocentric - correct answer ✔✔Piaget
theory stage 2
7-11 years old Concrete operational, conservation (Water doesn't change in different glass)
Children reason math - correct answer ✔✔Piaget theory stage 3
12+ Formal observation. Moral reasoning, knowing consequences, abstract - correct answer
✔✔Piaget stage 4
A group of thoughts children use to categorize things. ( knowing a horse is big and has four legs,
so when they saw a cow called it a horse) - correct answer ✔✔Schema
Sociocultural development. Social interaction between children and those around them and
their cognition. Varies across cultures - correct answer ✔✔Vygotsky
having a tutor
Attention, sensory, perception, memory - correct answer ✔✔Elementary Mental Functions
Becoming independent - correct answer ✔✔Higher mental function
Vygotsky said children needed someone in order to show them - correct answer ✔✔More
knowledgeable other
phase of learning during which children can benefit from instruction (When the child is actually
learning) - correct answer ✔✔Zone of proximal development
Private speech or internal speech aids in development. Language is an accelerator for thinking
and understanding. Watching and learning language form others. - correct answer ✔✔Vygotsky
on language
and Development of Children
and Adolescents - D094
Graph that shows that individuals must satisfy a basic series of needs before they can reach
their full potential. - correct answer ✔✔Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Physiological needs ( water, food) - correct answer ✔✔Maslow’s Needs level 1
Safety and security ( Place to live, physical or financial safety - correct answer ✔✔Maslow’s
needs level 2
Love and acceptance. Love and belonging needs involve interpersonal relationships—
friendships, intimacy, trust, romance and love, and being part of a group. - correct answer
✔✔Maslow’s needs level 3
Esteem needs include self-respect, respect from others, achievement, independence, status,
and prestige. - correct answer ✔✔Maslow’s needs level 4
Self- actualizations personal growth and fulfillment and the realization of one's personal
potential as a human being (as Maslow put it—a desire "to become everything one is capable of
becoming.") - correct answer ✔✔Maslow’s needs level 5
0-2 years old Sensorimotor stage. Using there senses and very active. Learn Object permanence
- correct answer ✔✔Piaget Theory Stage 1
, 2- 7 years old preoperational good at pretend play and egocentric - correct answer ✔✔Piaget
theory stage 2
7-11 years old Concrete operational, conservation (Water doesn't change in different glass)
Children reason math - correct answer ✔✔Piaget theory stage 3
12+ Formal observation. Moral reasoning, knowing consequences, abstract - correct answer
✔✔Piaget stage 4
A group of thoughts children use to categorize things. ( knowing a horse is big and has four legs,
so when they saw a cow called it a horse) - correct answer ✔✔Schema
Sociocultural development. Social interaction between children and those around them and
their cognition. Varies across cultures - correct answer ✔✔Vygotsky
having a tutor
Attention, sensory, perception, memory - correct answer ✔✔Elementary Mental Functions
Becoming independent - correct answer ✔✔Higher mental function
Vygotsky said children needed someone in order to show them - correct answer ✔✔More
knowledgeable other
phase of learning during which children can benefit from instruction (When the child is actually
learning) - correct answer ✔✔Zone of proximal development
Private speech or internal speech aids in development. Language is an accelerator for thinking
and understanding. Watching and learning language form others. - correct answer ✔✔Vygotsky
on language
