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Helwig NCE & CPCE Prep (HGrD)What is the definition of development? (HGrD) - correct answer ✔✔Systematic changes and continuities
in the individual that occurs between conception and death.
What are the three broad areas of systematic change in development? (HGrD) - correct answer
✔✔Three broad areas such as physical development, cognitive development, and psychosocial
development.
The theories which can explain how humans grow and develop fall into these following broad categories.
(HGrD) - correct answer ✔✔There are the learning theories including behavioral theories, cognitive
theories, psychoanalytic including the Neo-Freudian, and humanistic psychology included with self
theories.
Human growth and development changes can be viewed from these comparative concepts. (HGrD) -
correct answer ✔✔Qualitative or quantitative, continuous or discontinuous, and mechanistic or
organismic.
What is a qualitative view of change in human growth and development? (HGrD) - correct answer
✔✔Qualitative change principle is that change occurs in structure or organization (for example, sexual
development).
What is quantitative view of change in human growth and development? (HGrD) - correct answer
✔✔Quantitative view of change is in number, degree or frequency (content changes, for example,
intellectual development)
What is considered as the continuous view of change when it comes to human growth and
development? (HGrD) - correct answer ✔✔A continuous model states that change is sequential and
cannot be separated easily (for example, personality development)
What is considered in the discontinuous view of change in human growth and development? (HGrD) -
correct answer ✔✔The discontinuous view attributes growth and development as certain changes in
abilities or behaviors that can be separated from others which delineates stages of development (for
example, language development).
,What is the mechanistic view of change in human growth and development? (HGrD) - correct answer
✔✔Mechanistic model states development and growth as those changes that are the reduction of all
behavior to common elements (for example, instinctual or reflexive behavior)
What is the organismic model of change in human growth and development? (HGrD) - correct answer
✔✔Organismic model states that because of new stages, there is change or discontinuity; development
and growth is more than just stimulus-response. The organism is involved including the use of cognition
An example of this model comes from theories on moral or ethical development.
What is the definition of self-concept? (HGrD) - correct answer ✔✔Self-concept may be defined as your
perception of your qualities, attributes, and traits.
What is the theoretical self-concept at birth? (HGrD) - correct answer ✔✔At birth, infants have no sense
of self. In early months this quickly changes.
By 24 months, what is the theoretical self-concept for most infants? (HGrD) - correct answer ✔✔Most
infants, by 24 months, show signs of self recognition; they are able to identify social categories they are
in i.e. age and gender, "who is like me and who is not like me"; they exhibit various temperaments.
At what stage of development does most children shows signs of concrete and physical self-concept?
And at what age can be described inner qualities? (HGrD) - correct answer ✔✔It is the pre-school child's
self-concept that is very concrete and physical. By 8 years old or so, they can describe inner qualities.
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At what stage of development does a child start to develop a more abstract and psychological self-
concept? (HGrD) - correct answer ✔✔It is by adolescents does self-concepts (self descriptions) become
more abstract and psychological.
Does the stabilization of self-concept attributes, in adolescents; continue, stop or maintain itself? (HGrD)
- correct answer ✔✔The stabilization of self-concept attributes continues for adolescents. (HGrD)
What influences the development of attributes and some traits for adolescents? (HGrD) - correct answer
✔✔It is cultural and family factors that influence the development of attributes and some traits.
, Explain nature versus nurture. (HGrD) - correct answer ✔✔Nature includes genetic and hereditary
factors. While nurture includes learning and environmental factors.
Explain genotype and phenotype. (HGrD) - correct answer ✔✔Genotype is the genetic (inherited)
makeup of the individual. While phenotype is the way an individual's genotype is expressed through
physical and behavioral characteristics.
What is the Tabula Rasa theory? (HGrD) - correct answer ✔✔John Locke's theory that children begin as a
'blank slate' acquiring their characteristics through experience.
What does the statement "lifespan development has plasticity" mean? (HGrD) - correct answer ✔✔For
most individuals lifespan development is plastic representing an easy and smooth transition from one
stage to the next.
Explain the concept of resiliency? (HGrD) - correct answer ✔✔Resiliency is the ability to adapt effectively
despite the experience of adverse circumstances. For example, some children, despite experiencing
potentially damaging conditions and circumstances, seem to suffer few consequences.
What is neuroscience sometimes referred to in mental health professions? (HGrD) - correct answer
✔✔Neuroscience is usually sometimes referred to as the missing link in mental health professions.
According to Ivey, D'Andrea and Ivey, what are the levels for which the mind is a product of activity
occurring in the brain? (HGrD) - correct answer ✔✔The mind is a product of the activity occurring at the
molecular, cellular, and anatomical levels.
According to Ivey, D'Andrea and Ivey, what impacts the mind, as it is product of activities in the brain?
(HGrD) - correct answer ✔✔The mind is impacted by a person's interpersonal, relationships, cultural
context, and societal experience.
Counselor use of theories, skills and interventions help promote the release of what, which promotes
related brain changes? (HGrD) - correct answer ✔✔When counselors promote the use of theories, skills
and interventions, they help release various neurotransmitters which promotes related brain changes.
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