Human Development

Question 1

The scientific study of how people grow, change, and develop

Answer 1

Human development

Question 2

The size increase of body parts which can be measured quantitatively

Answer 2

Growth

Question 3

The pattern of progressive, orderly, and predictable changes that begins at conception

Answer 3

Development

Question 4

It involves the growth and changes in the body and brain, senses, motor skills, and health and wellness

Answer 4

Physical Development

Question 5

Involves learning, attention, memory, language, thinking, reasoning, and creativity

Answer 5

Cognitive Development

Question 6

It involves emotions, personality, and social relationships

Answer 6

Psychosocial Development

Question 7

Stage where the body is formed in the womb

Answer 7

Pre-Natal stage

Question 8

Is the baby’s health related to the mother’s health?

Answer 8

Yes/True

Question 9

The stage where mothers and caretakers are most protective

Answer 9

Infancy to Toddlerhood

Question 10

The stage where the child learns how to interact with people

Answer 10

Pre-school stage

Question 11

A group of people who are born in the same period in society

Answer 11

Cohort

Question 12

Development is a vast topic

Answer 12

Development is multidisciplinary

Question 13

The ability to change and many of our characteristics are malleable

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Plasticity

Question 14

Development occurs in many contexts

Answer 14

Multicontextual

Question 15

It is a way to identify families and households based on their shared levels of education, income, and occupation

Answer 15

Socioeconomic Status

Question 16

It teaches us how to live in a society. It is also learned from parents, churches, schools, media, etc.

Answer 16

Culture

Question 17

Refers to
the length of time a species can exist under the most optimal conditions.

Answer 17

Life span

Question 18

The predicted number of years a person born in a particular period can reasonably expect to live

Answer 18

Life expectancy

Question 19

The number of years
since your birth

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Chronological age

Question 20

Starts at birth and continues to two years of age

Answer 20

Infancy and Toddlerhood

Question 21

This idea would argue that heredity plays the most important role in
bringing about that feature.

Answer 21

Nature

Question 22

This idea would argue that one’s environment is
most significant in shaping the way we are.

Answer 22

Nurture

Question 23

This assume that
developmental change often occurs in distinct stages that are qualitatively different from each other, and in a set, universal sequence.

Answer 23

Stage theories/ Discontinuous development

Question 24

Development is a more slow and gradual
process

Answer 24

Continuous development

Question 25

He believed that children actively explore their world and construct new ways of thinking to explain
the things they experience.

Answer 25

Piaget