WGU D307 EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT OF
CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS EXAM
NEW UPDATE FINAL STUDY GUIDE 2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
⫸ personality traits Answer: characteristics that describe an individual's
behavior in a large number of situations
⫸ Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Answer: A personality test that
taps four characteristics and classifies Behavior
⫸ Big Five Model Answer: A personality assessment model that taps
five basic dimensions. extraversion, agreeableness, openness,
conscientiousness, and neuroticism.
⫸ extraversion Answer: A personality describing someone who is
sociable and assertive (confident and forceful )
⫸ agreeableness Answer: A personality that describes someone who is
good natured, cooperative, and trusting.
⫸ conscientiousness Answer: A personality that describes someone who
is responsible, dependable, persistent, and organized.
,⫸ emotional stability Answer: A personality that characterizes someone
as calm, self-confident, and insecure.
⫸ openness to experience Answer: A personality that characterizes
someone in terms of imagination, sensitivity, and curiosity.
⫸ core self-evaluation Answer: Bottom-line conclusions individuals
have about their capabilities, competence, and worth as a person.
⫸ Machiavellianism Answer: The degree to which an individual is
pragmatic, maintains emotional distance, and believes that ends can
justify means.
⫸ narcissism Answer: The tendency to be arrogant, self-importance,
require excessive admiration, and have a sense of entitlement.
⫸ self-monitoring Answer: where an individual's has ability to adjust
his or her behavior to external, situational factors.
⫸ proactive personality Answer: People who identify opportunities,
show initiative, take action, and persevere until meaningful change
occurs.
⫸ values Answer: Basic convictions that a specific mode of conduct or
end-state of existence is personally or socially preferable to an opposite
or converse mode of conduct or end-state of existence.
,⫸ value system Answer: A hierarchy based on a ranking of an
individual's values in terms of their intensity.
⫸ terminal values Answer: Values that we work towards (happiness,
self-respect, family security, recognition)
⫸ instrumental values Answer: Core values that are permanent in nature
(honesty, sincerity, ambition, independence)
⫸ personality Job-fit theory Answer: A theory that identifies six
personality types and proposes that the fit between personality type and
occupational environment determines satisfaction and turnover.
⫸ power distance Answer: where society accepts that power in
institutions and organizations is distributed unequally.
⫸ individualism Answer: where people prefer to act as individuals
rather than as members of groups.
⫸ collectivism Answer: A national culture attribute that describes a
tight social framework in which people expect others in groups of which
they are a part to look after them and protect them.
⫸ masculinity Answer: where culture favors traditional masculine work
roles of achievement, power, and control.
, ⫸ femininity Answer: indicates little differentiation between male and
female roles; where women are treated as the equals of men in all
aspects of the society.
⫸ uncertainty avoidance Answer: A national culture attribute that
describes the extent to which a society feels threatened by uncertain and
ambiguous situations and tries to avoid them.
⫸ long-term orientation Answer: A national culture attribute that
emphasizes the future, thrift, and persistence.
⫸ short-term orientation Answer: A national culture attribute that
emphasizes the past and present, respect for tradition, and fulfillment of
social obligations. people value the here and now; they accept change
more readily and don't see commitments as impediments to change.
⫸ heredity Answer: factors determined at conception; one's biological,
physiological, and inherent psychological makeup.
⫸ Perception Answer: A process by which individuals organize and
interpret their sensory impressions in order to give meaning to their
environment.
⫸ attribution theory Answer: An attempt to determine whether an
individual's behavior is internally or externally caused.
AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT OF
CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS EXAM
NEW UPDATE FINAL STUDY GUIDE 2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
⫸ personality traits Answer: characteristics that describe an individual's
behavior in a large number of situations
⫸ Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Answer: A personality test that
taps four characteristics and classifies Behavior
⫸ Big Five Model Answer: A personality assessment model that taps
five basic dimensions. extraversion, agreeableness, openness,
conscientiousness, and neuroticism.
⫸ extraversion Answer: A personality describing someone who is
sociable and assertive (confident and forceful )
⫸ agreeableness Answer: A personality that describes someone who is
good natured, cooperative, and trusting.
⫸ conscientiousness Answer: A personality that describes someone who
is responsible, dependable, persistent, and organized.
,⫸ emotional stability Answer: A personality that characterizes someone
as calm, self-confident, and insecure.
⫸ openness to experience Answer: A personality that characterizes
someone in terms of imagination, sensitivity, and curiosity.
⫸ core self-evaluation Answer: Bottom-line conclusions individuals
have about their capabilities, competence, and worth as a person.
⫸ Machiavellianism Answer: The degree to which an individual is
pragmatic, maintains emotional distance, and believes that ends can
justify means.
⫸ narcissism Answer: The tendency to be arrogant, self-importance,
require excessive admiration, and have a sense of entitlement.
⫸ self-monitoring Answer: where an individual's has ability to adjust
his or her behavior to external, situational factors.
⫸ proactive personality Answer: People who identify opportunities,
show initiative, take action, and persevere until meaningful change
occurs.
⫸ values Answer: Basic convictions that a specific mode of conduct or
end-state of existence is personally or socially preferable to an opposite
or converse mode of conduct or end-state of existence.
,⫸ value system Answer: A hierarchy based on a ranking of an
individual's values in terms of their intensity.
⫸ terminal values Answer: Values that we work towards (happiness,
self-respect, family security, recognition)
⫸ instrumental values Answer: Core values that are permanent in nature
(honesty, sincerity, ambition, independence)
⫸ personality Job-fit theory Answer: A theory that identifies six
personality types and proposes that the fit between personality type and
occupational environment determines satisfaction and turnover.
⫸ power distance Answer: where society accepts that power in
institutions and organizations is distributed unequally.
⫸ individualism Answer: where people prefer to act as individuals
rather than as members of groups.
⫸ collectivism Answer: A national culture attribute that describes a
tight social framework in which people expect others in groups of which
they are a part to look after them and protect them.
⫸ masculinity Answer: where culture favors traditional masculine work
roles of achievement, power, and control.
, ⫸ femininity Answer: indicates little differentiation between male and
female roles; where women are treated as the equals of men in all
aspects of the society.
⫸ uncertainty avoidance Answer: A national culture attribute that
describes the extent to which a society feels threatened by uncertain and
ambiguous situations and tries to avoid them.
⫸ long-term orientation Answer: A national culture attribute that
emphasizes the future, thrift, and persistence.
⫸ short-term orientation Answer: A national culture attribute that
emphasizes the past and present, respect for tradition, and fulfillment of
social obligations. people value the here and now; they accept change
more readily and don't see commitments as impediments to change.
⫸ heredity Answer: factors determined at conception; one's biological,
physiological, and inherent psychological makeup.
⫸ Perception Answer: A process by which individuals organize and
interpret their sensory impressions in order to give meaning to their
environment.
⫸ attribution theory Answer: An attempt to determine whether an
individual's behavior is internally or externally caused.
