WGU D094 EDUCATIONAL

WGU D094 EDUCATIONAL

COMPLETE ANSWERS 100% CORRECT (LATEST 2024 / 2025 )

• Physical Development: Infants: * Hold up heads
• Roll over
• Reach for things
• Sit
• Crawl
• Begin to Walk
• Increased coordination
• Manipulate objects with hands
• Physical Development: By Age 2: * Feed themselves with hands
• Jump & run awkwardly
• Throw ball
• Use zipper
• Make tower of blocks
• Physical Development: Toddlers: *Love to run
• Hop
• Tumble
• Play
• Swing
• Fine motor skills developing
• Can string beads
• Do jigsaw puzzles
• Physical Development: By Age 4: * Print name
• Dress and undress self
• Eat with utensils
• Physical Development: Middle Childhood: 6-10 Years: * Slow, steady weight gain
• Speed and coordination improve
• Begin organized sports 1 / 4

• Refinement of fine motor skills
• Improved handwriting
• Drawings more representational
• Physical Development: Adolescence: 10-18 Years: * Girls begin puberty earlier
• Boys grow taller
• Boys more muscular
• Girls' physical growth slows
• Boys physical growth continues
• Reach sexual maturity
• At which developmental stage would a child be expected to tie shoes?: Pri- mary school

• How does female growth differ than male growth during the adolescent stage?: Females

usually complete physical growth before males

• Which characteristic is consistent with a student in the early childhood physical

development stage?: Ties shoelaces

• Which characteristic is consistent with a student in the middle childhood physical

development stage?: Refining of motor coordination

11. Piaget: * scheme, schema

• adaptation
• assimilation, disequilibrium, equilibrium, & accommodation
• Learn from interaction with peers and environment

12. Vygotsky: * Scaffolding

• Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)
• More knowledgeable other (MKO)
• Using language (as a mediator)

** explaining, giving examples, asking leading questions

• Social & Cultural interactions important

13. Piaget Stages: * Sensorimotor Stage

• Preoperational Stage
• Concrete Operational Stage
• Formal Operational Stage 2 / 4

14. Sensorimotor Stage: (Birth - 2 years)

• Learn through movement and senses
• Reflexive or active
• Sucking
• Grabbing
• Looking
• Listening

*Object permanence ** unseen things still exist

15. Preoperational Stage: (Preschool/Kinder)

• Prelogical thought
• Play and pretend
• Language develops
• Forms many new schemes
• Egocentrism

** all about me

• Centration

** focus on only one aspect at a time

16. Concrete Operational Stage: (Elementary)

• Logical thought
• Need concrete, hands-on, experience
• Mental reversal
• Seriation
• Sorting
• Classifying
• Conservation

17. Formal Operational Stage: (Middle school/High school)

• Abstract thought
• Higher order thinking & reasoning 3 / 4

• Mental manipulations
• Systematic problem-solving, critical thinking
• Hypothesize
• Predict

18. Vygotsky Stages: * No specific stages

• Support learning from lower level to higher level and more complex knowledge and skills at all

ages

• Erikson - Psychosocial (8 Stages of Identity Development): 1. Trust vs. Mistrust
• Autonomy vs. Shame & Doubt
• Initiative vs. Guilt 4.Industry vs. Inferiority
• Identity vs. Role Confusion
• Intimacy vs. Isolation

20. Trust vs. Mistrust: * Babies

• Provide love, care, food
• Need comfort and safety

21. Autonomy vs. Shame & Doubt: * Toddlers

• Need for independence
• Me do stage
• Insist on doing things on own

22. Initiative vs. Guilt: * Preschool/Kinder

• Exploration
• Asking lots of questions
• Trying new things on own

23. Industry vs. Inferiority: * Elementary

• Intellectual curiosity
• School performance

• Need positive reinforcement
• Praise
• Avoid undue competition or criticism
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