MODULE 1 & 2

Question 1

Finding a congenial social group

Answer 1

Early Adulthood

Question 2

when individuals experience difficulties in adaptation, they make poor personal
and social adjustment

Answer 2

periods of disequilibrium

Question 3

Developing concepts necessary for everyday living

Answer 3

Late Childhood

Question 4

Selecting a mate

Answer 4

Early Adulthood

Question 5

It is observed during the prenatal period and continues throughout babyhood up to the
first six years.

Answer 5

Rapid Development.

Question 6

Personal experiences have a profound effect on an individual’s attitude toward developmental
changes. Since the authority and prestige of middle-aged executives decreases as they approach retirement, their attitudes toward aging are, for example, unfavorably affected. These attitudes are intensified by unfavorable social
attitudes.

Answer 6

Personal Experiences

Question 7

is one area of psychology that explains the course of physical, social, emotional, moral and intellectual development over a person’s life span.

Answer 7

Developmental Psychology

Question 8

The pattern of change in emotions, personality, and social relations.

Answer 8

Psychosocial Development

Question 9

refers to the development or unfolding of traits potentially present in the individual
considering his hereditary endowment.

Answer 9

Maturation

Question 10

Building a wholesome attitude toward oneself as a growing
organism

Answer 10

Late Childhood

Question 11

Relating oneself to one’s spouse as a person

Answer 11

Middle Age

Question 12

Developing attitudes toward social groups and institutions

Answer 12

Late Childhood

Question 13

refers to the progressive series of changes of an orderly and coherent type toward the goal of maturity

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Development

Question 14

Enumerate the six major objectives of developmental psychologist have:

Answer 14

1. to find out what are the common and characteristic age changes in appearance, behavior, interests, and
   in goals from one developmental period to another;
2. to find out when these changes occur;
3. to find out what causes them;
4. to find out how they influence behavior;
5. to find out whether they can or cannot be predicted;
6. to find out whether they are individual or universal.

Question 15

are individuals engaged in the professional study of human
development.

Answer 15

Developmental Scientist (Developmentalist)

Question 16

description, explanation,
prediction and intervention.

Answer 16

social constructions:

Question 17

When behavior changes are disconcerting, as during puberty and senescence, they affect attitudes toward
the changes unfavorably. The reverse is true when changes are favorable, as occur, for example, when the
helplessness of babyhood gradually gives way to the independence of childhood.

Answer 17

Behavior

Question 18

Developing adult leisure, time activities

Answer 18

Middle Age

Question 19

Acquiring a set of values and an ethical system as a guide to
behavior – developing an ideology

Answer 19

Adolescence

Question 20

is a chronology of different aspects of human development or a lifelong process from conception to death.

Answer 20

Developmental Psychology

Question 21

Physical development is not only limited to size. It is also apparent in mental development. At first, a child is interested in himself alone, and later in others and in toys. Finally, his interests are directed toward
members of the opposite sex.

Answer 21

Change in proportion.

Question 22

There is a change in the physical and mental growth.

Answer 22

Change in size.

Question 23

Who developed development theory; the developmental task

Answer 23

Robert James Havighurst

Question 24

The four goals of the scientific study of human development are:

Answer 24

description,
explanation,
prediction
and intervention.

Question 25

functions that are common to the human race, such as creeping, sitting, and walking - development comes from maturation.

Answer 25

Phylogenetic Functions

Question 26

Assisting teenage children to become responsible and happy adults

Answer 26

Middle Age

Question 27

Attitudes toward people of different ages are greatly influenced by the roles they play. When people change their roles to less favorable ones, as in the case of retirement or widowhood, social attitudes toward them are less sympathetic.

Answer 27

Role Changes

Question 28

There is ample evidence that each period in the life span has associated with it certain developmental hazards-whether physical, psychological, or environmental in origin- and these inevitably involve adjustment problems.

Answer 28

Each phase of development has hazards.

Question 29

the stage when no physical development takes place)

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“plateau”

Question 30

Growth of body and brain, including patterns of change in sensory capacities, motor skills, and health.

Answer 30

Physical Development

Question 31

Learning to distinguish right and wrong and beginning to develop a conscience, what stages developmental task describes.

Answer 31

Babyhood and Early Childhood

Question 32

New features are acquired such as the primary and secondary sex characteristics as well as new mental traits like curiosity, sex urge, knowledge, morals and standards, religious beliefs, forms and language, and types of neurotic tendencies.

Answer 32

Acquisition of new features.

Question 33

is a scientific study of processes of change and stability throughout the human life span.

Answer 33

Human Development

Question 34

Getting started in an occupation

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Early Adulthood

Question 35

Starts from six years to adolescence. However, the changes of old age usually occur at a much slower pace than those of childhood or adolescence. In adolescence, the rate of development is once
more accelerated.

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Slow Development.

Question 36

Some features that disappear are the thymus glands, baby hair, Darwinian reflex, Babinski reflex, and baby forms of locomotion such as creeping and crawling.

Answer 36

Disappearance of old features.

Question 37

Developmentalist have come to recognize that human development is a lifelong process, a concept known as
life-span development.

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Life Span Development

Question 38

Every cultural group expects its member to master certain essential skills and acquire certain approved patterns of behavior at various ages during the life span.

Answer 38

The social expectations for every stage of development.

Question 39

Every culture has certain values associated with different ages. Because maximum productivity is
associated with young through early middle-age adulthood, attitudes toward this group are more favorable than attitudes toward other ages.

Answer 39

Cultural Values

Question 40

Getting ready to read, what stages developmental task describes.

Answer 40

Babyhood and Early Childhood

Question 41

Desiring, accepting, and achieving socially responsible behavior

Answer 41

Adolescence

Question 42

Accepting one’s physique and using one’s body effectively

Answer 42

Adolescence

Question 43

Learning to take solid foods, what stages developmental task describes.

Answer 43

Babyhood and Early Childhood

Question 44

Learning to get along with age-mates

Answer 44

Late Childhood

Question 45

These beliefs about the physical and psychological characteristics of a person affect the judgment of others as well as one’s own self-evaluations.

Answer 45

Traditional beliefs about people of all ages.

Question 46

Achieving new and more mature relations within age-mates of
both sexes

Answer 46

Adolescence

Question 47

Developing a conscience, a sense of morality, and a scale of values

Answer 47

Late Childhood

Question 48

A task arises at or about a certain period in the life of the individual, successful achievement of which leads to happiness and to success with later tasks, while failure leads to unhappiness and difficulty with later tasks.

Answer 48

Developmental Task -

Question 49

when individuals adapt easily to environmental demands, they make good personal and social adjustment.

Answer 49

periods of equilibrium -

Question 50

is the individual’s state of preparedness with respect to one or more areas of his /her
functioning.

Answer 50

Developmental Readiness

Question 51

those that are specific to the individual, such as writing, driving, and swimming - learning in the form of training is essential. Without, it, the development would not take place.

Answer 51

Ontogenetic Functions

Question 52

This can be done by stimulating development by directly encouraging the individual to use an ability that is in the process of developing.

Answer 52

Development is aided by stimulation.

Question 53

refers to the development or unfolding of traits potentially present in the individual
considering his hereditary endowment.

Answer 53

Maturation

Question 54

From mass media, people learn cultural stereotypes associated with different ages and they
use these stereotypes to judge people of those ages.

Answer 54

Cultural Stereotypes

Question 55

Rearing children

Answer 55

Early Adulthood

Question 56

Adjusting to aging parents

Answer 56

Middle Age

Question 57

Reaching and maintaining satisfactory performance in one’s occupational career

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Middle Age

Question 58

Change that improves one’s appearance are welcome and leads to favorable attitudes while those that detract from one’s appearance are resisted and every possible attempt is made to camouflage them.

Answer 58

Appearance

Question 59

is a development that comes from exercise and effort on the individual’s part. It is the result
of activities or day-to-day experiences of the person himself.

Answer 59

Learning

Question 60

Because an individual’s development is molded to conform to cultural standards and ideals, changes in these standards affect the developmental pattern

Answer 60

Development is affected by cultural changes.

Question 61

Patterns of change in mental abilities, such as learning, attention, memory, language, thinking, reasoning
and creativity.

Answer 61

Cognitive Development