WGU C217 OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2026 RATED A WGU C217 OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2026 RATED A WGU C217 OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2026 RATED A

WGU C217 OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT
STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 2026 RATED A
Multidimensional Perspective --PRECISE ANSWER--how cognitive, biological, and
socioemotional development influence each other


Multidimensionally speaking, if a young boy breaks his leg how will he not develop according to
Piaget? --PRECISE ANSWER--He will not be able to develop cognitively because he can't move
to experience the world around him


What are two examples of how growth expands and shrinks? --PRECISE ANSWER--Fluid
intelligence, Crystallized intelligence


When does fluid intelligence peak? --PRECISE ANSWER--In early adulthood, then declines


When does crystallized intelligence increase --PRECISE ANSWER--continuously


Plastic perspective --PRECISE ANSWER--the capacity for change


When is a growth mindset most prevalent? --PRECISE ANSWER--In middle childhood because
they are aware that they can change and develop.


Memory training --PRECISE ANSWER--in older adults it can grow their cognitive abilities


Multidisciplinary discipline --PRECISE ANSWER--Any field of study that finds interest in and
studies human life and development


Contextual development --PRECISE ANSWER--Every part of development happens in some type of
context

,3 Influences of contextual development --PRECISE ANSWER--normative age, normative history,
non-normative


Normative age --PRECISE ANSWER--growth and development specific to a certain age (graduation)


Normative history --PRECISE ANSWER--A person acts a certain way because they grew up
during the Great Depression.


Non-Normative life events --PRECISE ANSWER--specific to one person, effects their
development. (death of a parent at a young age)


5 Types of perspectives --PRECISE ANSWER--Psychoanalytical, Cognitive, Behavioral, Ecological,
Ethological


Psychoanalytical Theorists --PRECISE ANSWER--Freud, Erickson


Behavioral theorists --PRECISE ANSWER--Skinner, Bandura


Cognitive theorists --PRECISE ANSWER--Piaget, Vgotsky


Ecological Theorist --PRECISE ANSWER--Bronfenbrenner


Ethological perspective --PRECISE ANSWER--Behavior is strongly influenced by biology
and evolution. Characterized by specific periods of development.


Psychoanalytical perspective --PRECISE ANSWER---Unconscious forces
- early experiences
both shape development


Cognitive perspective --PRECISE ANSWER--social and cultural interaction guide development

, Behavioral perspective --PRECISE ANSWER--we can only study what can be directly observed and
measures.


Ecological perspective --PRECISE ANSWER--environmental systems have several layers


Information Processing --PRECISE ANSWER--cognitive theory that states how people process
information, thoughts, memory, and language


Who is famous for his psychoanalytic theory? --PRECISE ANSWER--Erick Erickson


Erickson states that development is: --PRECISE ANSWER--Social and reflects a desire to affiliate
with other people


How many psycho social stages are there? --PRECISE ANSWER--8


Erickson believes that personality is shaped in the first ____ years of life --PRECISE ANSWER--5


Discontinuity --PRECISE ANSWER--development happens in stages and not all at once


What are Erickson's stages of development? --PRECISE ANSWER---Trust vs. Mistrust
-Autonomy vs. Shame / guilt
-Initiative vs. guilt
-Industry vs. Inferiority
-Identity vs. Role Confusion
-Intimacy vs. Isolation
-Generativity vs. Stagnation
-Integrity vs. despair


-Trust vs. Mistrust --PRECISE ANSWER--First year. warmth / constant care