Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
What is the primary reason students entering health-related fields study developmental theories?
- CORRECT ANSWER - Understanding developmental theory helps the nurse better
predict, detect, and prevent problems that may impact a client's health.
A nurse assesses an infant's height, weight, and head circumference. Which type of development
is the healthcare professional assessing? - CORRECT ANSWER - Biophysical
Cephalocaudal development means growth is FASTEST/SLOWEST at the top of the body.
Proximodistal development means growth starts at the CENTER/EXTREMITIES. - CORRECT
ANSWER - Fastest
Center
cephalocaudal development - CORRECT ANSWER - Development that occurs from the
top of the head down to the extremities.
proximodistal development - CORRECT ANSWER - Development that occurs from the
core or centre of the body outwards (towards the extremities)
What are the 4 types of developmental theories to understand human development? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Biophysical
Psychosocial
Cognitive
Moral
Biophysical Development - CORRECT ANSWER - How the human bodies grow and
change over time
,Most common biophysical theory used by healthcare professionals is - CORRECT
ANSWER - Gesell's Theory of Development
psychosocial development - CORRECT ANSWER - Human development based on
personality, thinking, and behavior
Most common psychosocial theory used by healthcare professionals is - CORRECT
ANSWER - Erikson's Theory of Psychosocial Development
Cognitive Development - CORRECT ANSWER - How an individual learns to think and
makes sense of the world from childhood to adulthood
Most common cognitive theory used by healthcare professionals is - CORRECT
ANSWER - Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development
Moral development - CORRECT ANSWER - Changes in an individual's thoughts
emotions, and behaviors that influence beliefs about what is right and wrong
The most common moral theory used by healthcare professionals is - CORRECT
ANSWER - Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development.
Which growth pattern represents proximodistal development? - CORRECT ANSWER -
The heart and lungs develop before the lower extremities
Identifying Types of Development: Psychosocial - CORRECT ANSWER - How our
personality, thinking, and behavior develop
Identifying Types of Development: Cognitive - CORRECT ANSWER - How we learn to
think and make sense of the world
,Identifying Types of Development: Moral - CORRECT ANSWER - How our thoughts,
emotions, and behaviors influence beliefs about right and wrong
Erik Erikson's Theory of Psychosocial Development - CORRECT ANSWER - Individuals
need to accomplish a particular task before successfully mastering the developmental stage and
progressing to the next one. Each task is described as opposing conflicts.
Example of Erik Erikson's Theory of Psychosocial Development - CORRECT ANSWER -
Initiative versus guilt is the developmental task of the preschool-aged child.
Jean Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development - CORRECT ANSWER - This theory is
focused on children's intellectual organization, specifically how they think, reason, and perceive
the world. Children move from one stage of development to another, seeking cognitive balance
and building mental structures to adapt to the world.
Examples of Jean Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development - CORRECT ANSWER -
School-aged children are in the concrete operations period of cognitive development.
Lawrence Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development - CORRECT ANSWER - This theory
is focused on moral development beginning at age 4 through adulthood. This refers to the
changes in an individual's thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that influence their beliefs about
what is right and wrong.
Examples of Lawrence Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development - CORRECT
ANSWER - Level 1 of moral development is preconventional reasoning.
developmental theory match: Theory of cognitive development - CORRECT ANSWER -
Jean Piaget
developmental theory match: Theory of moral development - CORRECT ANSWER -
Lawrence Kohlberg
, developmental theory match: Theory of psychosocial development - CORRECT
ANSWER - Erik Erikson
What impact will be experienced by an individual who fails to achieve developmental
milestones? - CORRECT ANSWER - Future developmental milestone achievement may
be delayed.
Kohlberg's stages of moral development - CORRECT ANSWER - preconventional (1-10),
conventional (10-19), postconventional (19-death)
Piaget's Stages of Cognitive development - CORRECT ANSWER - Sensorimotor (birth-
2), Preoperational (2-7), Concrete operational (7-10), Formal operational (10-death)
Erikson's Stages of psychosocial development - CORRECT ANSWER - Trust (birth-1.5),
Autonomy (1.5-3), Industry (7-12), Identity (12-19), Intimacy (19-35), Generativity (35-65),
Intergrity (65-death)
Wellness across the life span is defined by the PERCEPTION OF HEALTH/ABSENCE OF
ILLNESS and DEVELOPMENTAL MILESTONES/INTELLECTUAL ABILITY reached
during each stage of life. Each life stage is defined ACCOMPLISHMENTS/BENCHMARKS by
against which development is measured. - CORRECT ANSWER - Absence of illness
Developmental milestones
Benchmarks
CASE STUDY: Which client is likely experiencing significant physical growth that needs to be
measured?
Sadie is a 6-month-old infant.
Thomas is a 32-year-old adult
Harold is a 73-year-old adult
Teresa is a 21-year-old adult - CORRECT ANSWER - Sadie is a 6-month-old infant.