SC2020: Week 1 Assignment
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What factors affect human development?
This assignment helps you apply your knowledge from this week’s modules
and readings.
Understanding human development is important to your healthcare career in
many ways! Factors that affect human development influence our behavior.
Understanding our coworkers’ and patients’ behavior is essential for
problem-solving workplace challenges.
Introduction to Human Development
Using the textbook, answer the questions below.
1. Which theories propose that development is largely determined by how well people resolve the
conflicts that they face at different ages?
☐ learning
☒ psychodynamic
☐ cognitive
☐ systems
2. Which is the proper order of Piaget’s stages?
☐ preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational, sensorimotor
☐ concrete operational, formal operational, sensorimotor, preoperational
☐ formal operational, sensorimotor, concrete operational, preoperational
☒ sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational
3. In general, _________ forces include all internal perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and personality
factors that affect development.
☐ biological
☒ psychological
☐ sociocultural
☐ life-cycle
4. Two-year-old Luke lines up behind peers after seeing them make a line. Luke is demonstrating
learning by _________.
☐ operant conditioning
☐ reinforcement
☐ preoperational thinking
☒ imitation or observation
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5. Towanda notices that her 2-year-old child has made a huge leap in language ability. As far as
language ability is concerned, Towanda would probably most agree with the ________ point of
view.
☐ environmental
☐ universal development
☐ genetic
☒ discontinuity
6. Describe what is meant by biological forces as a part of human development
It means basic forces of development that include all genetic and health -related factor
7. Why are theories used in developmental psychology?
Type answer here
8. In the table below, match the theories of human development with the appropriate description.
A. Biological Model
D. Social-Cognitive Theory
