NSG 250 EXAM 1 | COMPREHENSIVE NURSING STUDY GUIDE,
PRACTICE QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 2026/2027
Cognitive - correct answer ✔✔Those aspects of development that involve the acquisition of skills in
perceiving, thinking, reasoning , and problem solving, as well as the intricate development and use of
language
Behaviorism - correct answer ✔✔The view that the appropriate focus of psychology should be on
observable behavior
Erikson - correct answer ✔✔Combined Unconscious process and psychosexual development
Erikson - correct answer ✔✔Psychosocial Theory
Psychosocial Theory
Erikson - correct answer ✔✔View that Social Interactions with others shape the development of
personality
Classical Conditioning
Pavlov - correct answer ✔✔A type of learning which an association is learned between an environmental
event and the stimulus-response reflex that follows
Pavlov - correct answer ✔✔Developed Classical Conditioning
Operant Conditioning
B.F. Skinner - correct answer ✔✔A type of learning that occurs when a behavior is followed by a reward
(REINFORCEMENT) or punishment, which serves to make the future occurrence of the behavior more or
less likely, respectively
Social Learning Theory
Albert Bandura - correct answer ✔✔A View that emphasizes the influence of the social behavior of
others on our learning
Albert Bandura - correct answer ✔✔Social Learning Theory
Cognitive-Development Theories
Piaget & Vygotsky - correct answer ✔✔Focus on reasoning, thinking and problem solving
Two Men
Jean Piaget - correct answer ✔✔Adaptation Assimilation Accomodation
Schema - correct answer ✔✔Piaget's term for mental structures that processes information,
perceptions, and experiences;
THe Schemes of individuals change as they grow
Accomodation - correct answer ✔✔Requires schemes to change when a new object or event does not fit
, Assimilation - correct answer ✔✔The processs of incorporating NEW information into EXISTING schemas
Vygotsky - correct answer ✔✔He believed that people understand and expertise mainly through
learning from others
Guided Participation - correct answer ✔✔People understanding and expertise mainly through
apprenticeship with more knowledgable LEARNERS
Longitudinal Design - correct answer ✔✔A study in which the same participants are studied at various
points in time to see how they change as they go
Cross-Sectional Design - correct answer ✔✔A study that composes individuals of different ages at one
point in time (A group of 5 year olds, a group of 8 year olds and a group of 11 year olds)
Sequential Cohort Design - correct answer ✔✔A research design where several overlapping cohorts of
different ages are studied longitudinally
Informed Consent - correct answer ✔✔A clear statement of procedures and risks, as well as the
obligations of both the participants and the researchers
Plasticity - correct answer ✔✔The degree to which the brain can be modified through experience;
greater at early age
Fine Motor Skills - correct answer ✔✔Use of the HANDS and FINGERS to perform intricate movements
Adaptation
Piaget - correct answer ✔✔The process by which infants schemes are elaborated, modified and
developed; Adaptation typically involves assimilation and accomidation
Authoritarian Parents - correct answer ✔✔Parents who are Highly controlling, show little warmth and
adhere to struct rules. Children contribute little to the family's decision-making process
Permissive - correct answer ✔✔Parents who exercise little control over their children
High Warmth
Indifferent - correct answer ✔✔Parents who neither set limits nor display much affection or approval
LOW control LOW warmth
Authoritative Parents - correct answer ✔✔Parents who combine a high degree of warmth, acceptance,
and encouragement of autonomy with firm but flexible control: they encourage communication and
negotiation in rule settling with the Family
Mod-High Control High Warmth
5 Developmental Perspectives - correct answer ✔✔Biological
Cognitive
Systems
Psychodynamic
PRACTICE QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 2026/2027
Cognitive - correct answer ✔✔Those aspects of development that involve the acquisition of skills in
perceiving, thinking, reasoning , and problem solving, as well as the intricate development and use of
language
Behaviorism - correct answer ✔✔The view that the appropriate focus of psychology should be on
observable behavior
Erikson - correct answer ✔✔Combined Unconscious process and psychosexual development
Erikson - correct answer ✔✔Psychosocial Theory
Psychosocial Theory
Erikson - correct answer ✔✔View that Social Interactions with others shape the development of
personality
Classical Conditioning
Pavlov - correct answer ✔✔A type of learning which an association is learned between an environmental
event and the stimulus-response reflex that follows
Pavlov - correct answer ✔✔Developed Classical Conditioning
Operant Conditioning
B.F. Skinner - correct answer ✔✔A type of learning that occurs when a behavior is followed by a reward
(REINFORCEMENT) or punishment, which serves to make the future occurrence of the behavior more or
less likely, respectively
Social Learning Theory
Albert Bandura - correct answer ✔✔A View that emphasizes the influence of the social behavior of
others on our learning
Albert Bandura - correct answer ✔✔Social Learning Theory
Cognitive-Development Theories
Piaget & Vygotsky - correct answer ✔✔Focus on reasoning, thinking and problem solving
Two Men
Jean Piaget - correct answer ✔✔Adaptation Assimilation Accomodation
Schema - correct answer ✔✔Piaget's term for mental structures that processes information,
perceptions, and experiences;
THe Schemes of individuals change as they grow
Accomodation - correct answer ✔✔Requires schemes to change when a new object or event does not fit
, Assimilation - correct answer ✔✔The processs of incorporating NEW information into EXISTING schemas
Vygotsky - correct answer ✔✔He believed that people understand and expertise mainly through
learning from others
Guided Participation - correct answer ✔✔People understanding and expertise mainly through
apprenticeship with more knowledgable LEARNERS
Longitudinal Design - correct answer ✔✔A study in which the same participants are studied at various
points in time to see how they change as they go
Cross-Sectional Design - correct answer ✔✔A study that composes individuals of different ages at one
point in time (A group of 5 year olds, a group of 8 year olds and a group of 11 year olds)
Sequential Cohort Design - correct answer ✔✔A research design where several overlapping cohorts of
different ages are studied longitudinally
Informed Consent - correct answer ✔✔A clear statement of procedures and risks, as well as the
obligations of both the participants and the researchers
Plasticity - correct answer ✔✔The degree to which the brain can be modified through experience;
greater at early age
Fine Motor Skills - correct answer ✔✔Use of the HANDS and FINGERS to perform intricate movements
Adaptation
Piaget - correct answer ✔✔The process by which infants schemes are elaborated, modified and
developed; Adaptation typically involves assimilation and accomidation
Authoritarian Parents - correct answer ✔✔Parents who are Highly controlling, show little warmth and
adhere to struct rules. Children contribute little to the family's decision-making process
Permissive - correct answer ✔✔Parents who exercise little control over their children
High Warmth
Indifferent - correct answer ✔✔Parents who neither set limits nor display much affection or approval
LOW control LOW warmth
Authoritative Parents - correct answer ✔✔Parents who combine a high degree of warmth, acceptance,
and encouragement of autonomy with firm but flexible control: they encourage communication and
negotiation in rule settling with the Family
Mod-High Control High Warmth
5 Developmental Perspectives - correct answer ✔✔Biological
Cognitive
Systems
Psychodynamic
