WGU PRE-ASSESSMENT:
HUMAN GROWTH AND
DEVELOPMENT exam with
verified answers 2025/2026
Which theory of human development was proposed by Jean Piaget? - answ✔️✔️-Cognitive
developmental theory
Involves the capacity to change - answ✔️✔️-Plastic development
Occurs within families, schools, peer groups, neighborhoods, universities, and countries - answ✔️✔️-
Contextual development
Includes how body, mind, emotions, and relationships change and affect each other - answ✔️✔️-
Multidimensional development
Involves biological, cultural, and individual factors - answ✔️✔️-Co-constructional development
A researcher is gathering information for a study to determine if adolescents experience depression
more than middle-aged adults. The researcher observes and records behavior exhibited by both groups.
Which research design does this exemplify? - answ✔️✔️-Descriptive research
, Which statement characterizes the debate about the nature-nurture issue? - answ✔️✔️-It involves
the extent to which heredity and the environment influence development.
A child who treats peers with aggression elicits hostility from those peers.
What type of heredity environment correlation does this exemplify? - answ✔️✔️-Evocative genotype-
environment correlation
During which period of prenatal development do the connections form between neurons? -
answ✔️✔️-Fetal period
What are two ways exposure to teratogens can affect standard fetal development?
Choose 2 answers - answ✔️✔️-By causing physical defects
By impairing cognitive and behavioral function
How do genotypes and phenotypes differ in relation to the variability of human characteristics? -
answ✔️✔️-Genotypes represent the genetic makeup of individuals; phenotypes are physical
characteristics.
Which genetic condition is characterized by an abnormal accumulation of lipids in the nervous system,
leading to deceleration of mental and physical development? - answ✔️✔️-Tay-Sachs disease
Which teratogen is commonly associated with low birth weight, subnormal length and head
circumference, excitability, and subnormal reflexes? - answ✔️✔️-Cocaine
What is an example of the cephalocaudal pattern of growth and motor development in infants? -
answ✔️✔️-Controlling trunk muscles before controlling legs and feet
HUMAN GROWTH AND
DEVELOPMENT exam with
verified answers 2025/2026
Which theory of human development was proposed by Jean Piaget? - answ✔️✔️-Cognitive
developmental theory
Involves the capacity to change - answ✔️✔️-Plastic development
Occurs within families, schools, peer groups, neighborhoods, universities, and countries - answ✔️✔️-
Contextual development
Includes how body, mind, emotions, and relationships change and affect each other - answ✔️✔️-
Multidimensional development
Involves biological, cultural, and individual factors - answ✔️✔️-Co-constructional development
A researcher is gathering information for a study to determine if adolescents experience depression
more than middle-aged adults. The researcher observes and records behavior exhibited by both groups.
Which research design does this exemplify? - answ✔️✔️-Descriptive research
, Which statement characterizes the debate about the nature-nurture issue? - answ✔️✔️-It involves
the extent to which heredity and the environment influence development.
A child who treats peers with aggression elicits hostility from those peers.
What type of heredity environment correlation does this exemplify? - answ✔️✔️-Evocative genotype-
environment correlation
During which period of prenatal development do the connections form between neurons? -
answ✔️✔️-Fetal period
What are two ways exposure to teratogens can affect standard fetal development?
Choose 2 answers - answ✔️✔️-By causing physical defects
By impairing cognitive and behavioral function
How do genotypes and phenotypes differ in relation to the variability of human characteristics? -
answ✔️✔️-Genotypes represent the genetic makeup of individuals; phenotypes are physical
characteristics.
Which genetic condition is characterized by an abnormal accumulation of lipids in the nervous system,
leading to deceleration of mental and physical development? - answ✔️✔️-Tay-Sachs disease
Which teratogen is commonly associated with low birth weight, subnormal length and head
circumference, excitability, and subnormal reflexes? - answ✔️✔️-Cocaine
What is an example of the cephalocaudal pattern of growth and motor development in infants? -
answ✔️✔️-Controlling trunk muscles before controlling legs and feet
