WGU D202 HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
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Greater development in the prefrontal cortex the area of the brain behind the
forehead helps us to
Understand how to play games, especially ones that involve strategy and planning,
controlled attention, inhibit, emotional outburst,
All of the above
Changing in the human brain that occurs between ages three and six years
include
Development of dendrites violation, growth of corpus callosum
All of the above
The ———— is a dense band of fibers that connects the two hemispheres of the
brain.
Corpus callosum
The term ———- refers to the brains, ability to change its structure and function
in response to experience or damage
Neuroplasticity
Which of the following fine motor skills could be seen in a three-year-old, but not
a two-year-old?
Drawing a person with 3parts
Which of the finemotor skills could be seen in a four-year-old but not a three-
year-old
Can cut out a picture using scissors
Which of the following fine motor skills can be seen in a five-year-old but not any
four-year-old
Using a knife to spread soft foods
Which of the following gross motor skills could be seen in a three-year-old but
not a two-year-old
Can pedal a tricycle
Which of the following gross motor skills could be seen in a four-year-old but not
a three-year-old
Throws a ball over hand with coordination
Which of the following gross motor schools could be seen in a five-year-old but
not a four-year-old
stays balance while standing on 1 foot with eyes closed
Children's early drawings of people are described, using which terms
Tadpoles
In Pj's blank stage of development children use symbols to represent words,
images and ideas
Pre-operational
In Piegets theory of cognitive development the term "operational" refers to
, Logical manipulation of information
The ———— substrate of the preoperational stage is characterized by the child
being able to mentally represent an object that is not present and dependence on
perception in problem-solving
Symbolic function
The ———- substage of the preoperational stage is marked by greater
dependence on intuitive thinking rather than just perception
Intuitive thought
Piaget believed that childrens pretend play
Helped children solidify new schemata they were developing, helped them learn
————- is the tendency of young children, not to be able to take the perspective
of others, instead of the child thinks that everyone sees things and feels just as
they do
Egocentrism
———— is the behavior of attributing life light qualities of objects
Animism
————- is the tendency of young children to focus on only one characteristic of
an object to the exclusion of others.
Centration
————- Refers to the ability to recognise that moving or rearranging matter,
does not change the quantity
Conservation
Alex has a scoop of ice cream in a small bowl. Danielle has the same amount of
ice cream but in a larger bowl so the ice cream takes up less space in the bowl.
Danielle is upset because he thinks Alex has more ice cream. Danielle is having a
problem with.
Centration
In one plays hide and seek, he hides by covering his eyes because he believes
that if he can't see someone else, they must not be able to see him either the best
term to describe this is
Egocentrism
Layla does not want hot chocolate put in her Doc McStuffins cup because she's
worried that the hot liquid will burn Doc McStuffins the best term to describe this
is
Animism
———— reasoning involves making faulty inferences from one specific example
to another.
Transductive
Vygotsky believed that children's cognitive skills improved as a result of
social interactions with more learned, peers, language, writing concepts arising from the
culture, social interactions with adults
All of the above.
A child is in the zone approximately development when
They can almost perform a task, but not quite on their own without assistance
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