NSG 250 HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT THEORISTS UB |
COMPREHENSIVE NURSING STUDY GUIDE, PRACTICE QUESTIONS &
ANSWERS 2026/2027
Piaget - correct answer ✔✔cognitive development theorist
Schemas (Mental categories): assimilation and accommodation (ADAPTATION)
stage theorist :
sensorimotor
preoperational
concrete operational
formal operational
sensorimotor stage - correct answer ✔✔PIAGET
birth to 2 years
intelligence relies on senses and bodily motion
preoperational stage - correct answer ✔✔PIAGET
2-7 years
form concepts and symbols
"magical" thinking
concrete operational stage - correct answer ✔✔PIAGET
7-11 years
begin to think logically
understand hierarchy and classification
formal operational stage - correct answer ✔✔PIAGET
11+
can create abstract concepts
think consequences
ask "what if" questions
Bandura - correct answer ✔✔Observational learning; Bobo dolls (WATCHING KIDS W DOLL
AGGRESSION); social-cognitive theory
Freud - correct answer ✔✔psychosexual theorist
development determined by unconscious processes
COMPREHENSIVE NURSING STUDY GUIDE, PRACTICE QUESTIONS &
ANSWERS 2026/2027
Piaget - correct answer ✔✔cognitive development theorist
Schemas (Mental categories): assimilation and accommodation (ADAPTATION)
stage theorist :
sensorimotor
preoperational
concrete operational
formal operational
sensorimotor stage - correct answer ✔✔PIAGET
birth to 2 years
intelligence relies on senses and bodily motion
preoperational stage - correct answer ✔✔PIAGET
2-7 years
form concepts and symbols
"magical" thinking
concrete operational stage - correct answer ✔✔PIAGET
7-11 years
begin to think logically
understand hierarchy and classification
formal operational stage - correct answer ✔✔PIAGET
11+
can create abstract concepts
think consequences
ask "what if" questions
Bandura - correct answer ✔✔Observational learning; Bobo dolls (WATCHING KIDS W DOLL
AGGRESSION); social-cognitive theory
Freud - correct answer ✔✔psychosexual theorist
development determined by unconscious processes