CLEP HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT REA PRACTICE EXAM 1 WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS

CLEP HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT REA
PRACTICE EXAM 1 WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS




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The psychodynamic theory emphasizes nature in the nature versus nurture debate more th
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an the other perspectives listed because of the emphasis on inborn, biological drives within t
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Vygotsky is the one theorist of the five who argued that culture influences cognitive
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ment. He argued that a child's cognitive abilities develop as a result of engaging in tasks with o
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lder, more competent adults. He also argued that language affects thought.
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Piaget used the term "adaptation" for the process of a child adjusting to the environment. Th
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e two complementary processes involved in adaptation are accommodation, when a child
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constructs a new scheme that organizes a new experience, and assimilation, when a child
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applies an already existing scheme to understand a new experience. Piaget argued that acc
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ommodation occurs when an attempt to assimilate new information fails.
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The information-
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processing approach argues children's memory improves because children get better at or
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learned information. The better a child can organize new information, the better that informa
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tion is encoded for storage in memory and later retrieval.
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Jane digs a hole in the sandbox while Jim, who is sitting next to her, fills his bucket with
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They share the shovels in the sandbox and talk about school. They are engaged in
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The children are engaged in associative play because even though they are talking to each o
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ther while playing and sharing tools, they are not sharing the same purpose or goal.
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