WSU PSYCH 361 EXAM 1 ACTUAL COMPLETE EXAM|WITH
ACCURATE QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS|GRADED
A
Physical Development Ans✓✓✓ Changes in body size, proportions,
appearance, functioning of body systems, perceptual and motor
capacities, and physical health
Cognitive Development Ans✓✓✓ Changes in intellectual abilities
Emotional and Social Development Ans✓✓✓ Changes in emotional
communication, self-understanding, knowledge about other people,
interpersonal skills, friendships, intimate relationships, and moral
reasoning and behavior
Periods of Development Ans✓✓✓ - Prenatal: conception to birth
- Infancy and toddlerhood: birth to 2 years
- Early childhood: 2 to 6 years
- Middle childhood: 6 to 11 years
- Adolescence: 11 to 18 years
- Emerging adulthood: 18 to 25 years
Prenatal Period Ans✓✓✓ Most rapid time of change
,Infancy and Early Childhood Ans✓✓✓ Infancy=1st year
Toddlerhood=18-24 months
Early Childhood Ans✓✓✓ Motor skills more refined, body becomes
leaner, make-believe play, thought & language expand
Middle Childhood Ans✓✓✓ Athletic abilities, participation in
organized games, logical thought processes
Adolescence Ans✓✓✓ Puberty, thought becomes abstract, establishing
autonomy
Continuous Ans✓✓✓ Process of gradually adding more of the same
types of skills that were there to begin with
Visual: ramp
Discontinuous Ans✓✓✓ Process where new years of understanding and
responding to the world emerge at specific times
Visual: stairs
One Course Ans✓✓✓ Everyone around follows the same sequence of
development
, Many Courses Ans✓✓✓ Unique personal and environmental
circumstances effecting development
Stability Ans✓✓✓ Results of heredity and possible early experiences
(ex) child high in anxiety will remain so later in life
Plasticity Ans✓✓✓ Larger influential experiences can produce change
Resilience Ans✓✓✓ The ability to adapt effectively in the face of
threats to development
John Locke Ans✓✓✓ British philosopher that viewed the child as a
Tabula Rosa (latin for "blank slate")
-Continuous
-Nurture
-Many courses
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Ans✓✓✓ French philosopher claimed children
are not blank slates. Believed children were naturally endowed with a
sense of right and wrong and an innate plan for orderly, healthy growth
-Discontinuous
-Nature
-One Course
ACCURATE QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS|GRADED
A
Physical Development Ans✓✓✓ Changes in body size, proportions,
appearance, functioning of body systems, perceptual and motor
capacities, and physical health
Cognitive Development Ans✓✓✓ Changes in intellectual abilities
Emotional and Social Development Ans✓✓✓ Changes in emotional
communication, self-understanding, knowledge about other people,
interpersonal skills, friendships, intimate relationships, and moral
reasoning and behavior
Periods of Development Ans✓✓✓ - Prenatal: conception to birth
- Infancy and toddlerhood: birth to 2 years
- Early childhood: 2 to 6 years
- Middle childhood: 6 to 11 years
- Adolescence: 11 to 18 years
- Emerging adulthood: 18 to 25 years
Prenatal Period Ans✓✓✓ Most rapid time of change
,Infancy and Early Childhood Ans✓✓✓ Infancy=1st year
Toddlerhood=18-24 months
Early Childhood Ans✓✓✓ Motor skills more refined, body becomes
leaner, make-believe play, thought & language expand
Middle Childhood Ans✓✓✓ Athletic abilities, participation in
organized games, logical thought processes
Adolescence Ans✓✓✓ Puberty, thought becomes abstract, establishing
autonomy
Continuous Ans✓✓✓ Process of gradually adding more of the same
types of skills that were there to begin with
Visual: ramp
Discontinuous Ans✓✓✓ Process where new years of understanding and
responding to the world emerge at specific times
Visual: stairs
One Course Ans✓✓✓ Everyone around follows the same sequence of
development
, Many Courses Ans✓✓✓ Unique personal and environmental
circumstances effecting development
Stability Ans✓✓✓ Results of heredity and possible early experiences
(ex) child high in anxiety will remain so later in life
Plasticity Ans✓✓✓ Larger influential experiences can produce change
Resilience Ans✓✓✓ The ability to adapt effectively in the face of
threats to development
John Locke Ans✓✓✓ British philosopher that viewed the child as a
Tabula Rosa (latin for "blank slate")
-Continuous
-Nurture
-Many courses
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Ans✓✓✓ French philosopher claimed children
are not blank slates. Believed children were naturally endowed with a
sense of right and wrong and an innate plan for orderly, healthy growth
-Discontinuous
-Nature
-One Course
