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WGU D167 TASK 1 | EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS | LATEST UPDATE WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS
Performance Assessment Task 1: D167
Brandy L. Mullins
Western Governors University
Educational Psychology and Human Development of Children and Adolescents-D167
Dr. Brandon Morgan
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A1. The elementary school video I watched was called Practicing Presentation and
Audience Skills Through Science Presentations and was case number 9. It was a kindergarten
class with students ages five to seven years old. There were twenty students in the class. Ten
students were boys and the other ten were girls. Three students were Hispanic origin with
speaking English as their second language. One student gets Title 1 reading services five days a
week for thirty-minute intervals. Another student has autism and receives primary services for
thirty minutes a day daily, as well as occupational therapy for thirty minutes once a week. Her
three English learning students receive services daily for thirty minutes a day, while two other
students receive speech services three times a week for thirty minutes. One child has a heart
abnormality and qualifies for a 504 plan which allows him to get drinks often, miss class for
doctor appointments, and he gets to choose whether or not to participate in physical activities. He
needs no special instruction towards learning.
A2. The children in this video were in the preoperational stage of cognitive development.
This stage happens between the ages of two and seven and children start to learn symbolically, or
through different designs and patterns. They enjoy pretend play in this stage and learn a lot about
the world through doing so. They still have a hard time understanding reasoning and logic at this
stage. One example from the video showing something that the children understood symbolically
was the way the teacher used the thumbs up signs as a way of meaning “good job” when the
students raised the signs up to let the teacher and speaking student know if they did well with
their presentation.
A3. I believe the learning theory that best matches this teacher's instruction is Cognitive
learning and Erik Erikson's theory. The teacher used a visual map to show what she needed to go
over with the class. She did a great job of pointing out her visuals to model to the children what 3
WGU D167 TASK 1 | EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS | LATEST UPDATE WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS
Performance Assessment Task 1: D167
Brandy L. Mullins
Western Governors University
Educational Psychology and Human Development of Children and Adolescents-D167
Dr. Brandon Morgan
, 2
A1. The elementary school video I watched was called Practicing Presentation and
Audience Skills Through Science Presentations and was case number 9. It was a kindergarten
class with students ages five to seven years old. There were twenty students in the class. Ten
students were boys and the other ten were girls. Three students were Hispanic origin with
speaking English as their second language. One student gets Title 1 reading services five days a
week for thirty-minute intervals. Another student has autism and receives primary services for
thirty minutes a day daily, as well as occupational therapy for thirty minutes once a week. Her
three English learning students receive services daily for thirty minutes a day, while two other
students receive speech services three times a week for thirty minutes. One child has a heart
abnormality and qualifies for a 504 plan which allows him to get drinks often, miss class for
doctor appointments, and he gets to choose whether or not to participate in physical activities. He
needs no special instruction towards learning.
A2. The children in this video were in the preoperational stage of cognitive development.
This stage happens between the ages of two and seven and children start to learn symbolically, or
through different designs and patterns. They enjoy pretend play in this stage and learn a lot about
the world through doing so. They still have a hard time understanding reasoning and logic at this
stage. One example from the video showing something that the children understood symbolically
was the way the teacher used the thumbs up signs as a way of meaning “good job” when the
students raised the signs up to let the teacher and speaking student know if they did well with
their presentation.
A3. I believe the learning theory that best matches this teacher's instruction is Cognitive
learning and Erik Erikson's theory. The teacher used a visual map to show what she needed to go
over with the class. She did a great job of pointing out her visuals to model to the children what 3
