WGU D094 STUDY GUIDE
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- Toddlers need for independence and doing things on their own.: Autonomy vs. Shame and
- Preschoolers need for initiating activities. Pushing physical and social boundaries.:
- Elementary need to compare themselves to peers and see how they measure up.: Industry
Doubt
Initiative vs. Guilt
vs. Inferiority
4. Adolescents need to develop a sense of self.: Identity vs Role Confusion
5. Young adults need to share their lives with others.: Intimacy vs. Isolation
- Chomsky's theory holds that children learn to use language because of an innate capacity
for language and communication; they do not need to be explicitly taught but, rather, pick it
up instinctively: Chomsky's Theory of Language Development
- Theory states that because most children acquire and use language in a consistent way,
there is a common structure or grammar within language.: - Universal Grammar
- Language use is conditioned or influenced by the responses you receive from others
around you.: Skinner's Theory of Language Development
9. Children learn language based on reinforcement.: Operant Conditioning
10. Imitating, prompting, and sharing.: Skinner's Three Language Processes
- Innate challenges within students. Intellectual disabilities, autism, traumatic brain injuries,
and ADHD.: Cognitive Development Barriers
- A condition where a person has certain limitations like communicating, taking care of
themselves, and impaired social skills.: Intellectual Disability
- Personality and mood changes, mental health difficulties, visual or mem- ory impairments,
attention difficulties, headaches.: Brain Injury Implications
- Neurodevelopment disorder that affects how children process certain types of
information.: Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Trouble forming relationships, poor self-regulation, hypervigilance, and executive function
challenges.: Signs of trauma in children
- Persistent pattern of behaviors that disrupt a student's functioning or that of the class.:
- Persistent difficulties in the acquisition and use of language due to deficits in comprehension
Behavioral Disorders
or production.: Language Disorder 1 / 2
- Difficulties in the social use of verbal and non-verbal communication.: So- cial (pragmatic)
- Disruption in the flow of speech and includes repetitions of speech sounds, hesitations, or
Communication Disorder
prolongations of speech sounds.: Childhood-onset Fluency Disorder (Stuttering)
20. Challenges in pronouncing words understandably.: Articulation Difficulties
- Difficulties with the quality, pitch, and loudness of the voice.: Voice Disorders
- Students struggle to understand and remember verbal information.: Language Barriers
- Impairment of the auditory processing, resulting in deficiencies in the recognition and
interpretation of sounds by the brain.: Central Auditory Processing Disorder
24. Trouble getting message across when talking.: Expressive Language Disorder
- Struggle to get the meaning of what others are saying.: Receptive Language Disorder
- Struggle with both using and understanding language.: Mixed Receptive-expressive
- Motor delays, or difficulty hearing or seeing, physical conditions such as nutrition,
Language Issues
poverty, and homelessness.: Physical Development Barriers
- Impairment that adversely affects a child's educational performance.: Orthopedic
- Abnormality of the brain, spinal cord, or nervous system that sends im- pulses to the
Impairments
muscles.: Neuromotor Impairment
- Stage of development from 2 to 7 years. Kids learn through pretend play. Egocentric and
struggle to see others perspective.: Preoperational Stage
- Stage of development from 7 to 11 years. Logical thought begins, and they understand the
idea of conservation.: Concrete Operational Stage
- Stage of development for 12 years and up. Abstract thought begins. Higher order thinking
and ability to systematically plan for future.: Formal Operational Stage
- Categories of knowledge that help us to interpret and understand the world. An organized
pattern of behavior or thought.: Schema
- Process of using or transforming the environment so that it can be placed in preexisting
cognitive structures (schema).: Assimilation
- Process of changing cognitive structures (schema) in order to accept something from the
environment. Can also develop new schemas.: Accomodation
- The attempt to strike a balance between assimilation and accommodation. The tendency to
organize schemas.: Equilibration
- Lev Vygotsky's sociocultural theory that emphasized the important role of social
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interactions in the development of children's cognition.: Vygotsky's Theory of Cognitive Development