UNIT 1 - PART 2

Question 1

STAGES IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

Answer 1

Prenatal Stage
Infancy
Babyhood
Early Childhood
Middle Childhood
Puberty
Adolescence
Young Adulthood
Middle Adulthood
Late Adulthood

Question 2

Conception until Birth

Answer 2

Prenatal Stage

Question 3

The human embryo develops during pregnancy, from fertilization until birth.

Answer 3

Prenatal Stage

Question 4

Birth to 2 Weeks

Answer 4

Infancy

Question 5

The bond that develops between the infant and their primary caregiver is important in terms of the infant’s later emotional development.

Answer 5

Infancy

Question 6

2 Weeks to 2 Years

Answer 6

Babyhood

Question 7

A time of rapid growth and change and of decrease dependency, increase individuality, and beginning of socialization

Answer 7

Babyhood

Question 8

2 to 6 years

Answer 8

Early Childhood

Question 9

The helplessness and dependency of a child is replaced by his growing independence.

Become aware of some simple concepts of social and physical realities.

Answer 9

Early Childhood

Question 10

6 to 12 years

Answer 10

Middle Childhood

Question 11

Children become increasingly independent from their parents as they learn to do things themselves and gain self-control.

Children’s cognitive skills develop and they also begin to develop an understanding of what is right and wrong.

Answer 11

Middle Childhood

Question 12

This is the stage where the child’s body matures into an adult body capable of sexual reproduction to enable fertilization

Answer 12

Puberty

Question 13

12 to 20 years

Answer 13

Adolescence

Question 14

Dominated by seeking independence from parents and developing one’s own identity

Thought processes are more logical, complex, and idealistic.

Answer 14

Adolescence

Question 15

20 to 40 years

Answer 15

Young Adulthood

Question 16

Establishing financial independence and consolidating career

Time in which individuals select a partner, develop an ongoing intimate relationship, and begin a family

Answer 16

Young Adulthood

Question 17

40 to 65 years

Answer 17

Middle Adulthood

Question 18

This is a period of expanding social and personal involvements and responsibilities, advancing a career, and supporting offspring in their development to become mature individuals

Answer 18

Middle Adulthood

Question 19

65 years and older

Answer 19

Late Adulthood

Question 20

The period of considerable adjustment to changes in one’s life and self-perceptions

Answer 20

Late Adulthood

Question 21

ASPECTS OF DEVELOPMENT

Answer 21

• Physical-Motor Development
• Cognitive Development
• Language Development
• Social Development
• Emotional Development
• Moral Development

Question 22

SOURCES OF DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS
Havighurst (1972)

Answer 22

1. Tasks that arise from physical maturation
2. Tasks that arise from personal sources
3. Tasks that have their source in the pressure of society

Question 23

one that arises at a certain period in life

Answer 23

developmental tasks

Question 24

INFANCY AND EARLY CHILDHOOD

Answer 24

1. Learning to walk
2. Learning to take solid foods
3. Learning to talk
4. Learning to control the elimination of body wastes
5. Learning sex differences and sexual modesty
6. Forming concepts and learning language to describe social and physical reality
7. Getting ready to read

Question 25

MIDDLE CHILDHOOD

Answer 25

1. Learning physical skills necessary for ordinary games 2. Building wholesome attitudes toward oneself as a growing organism 3. Learning to get along with age-mates 4. Learning an appropriate masculine and feminine social role 5. Developing fundamental skills in reading, writing, and calculating 6. Developing concepts necessary for everyday living 7. Developing conscience, morality and a scale of values 8. Achieving personal independence 9. Developing attitudes toward social groups and institutions

Question 26

ADOLESCENCE

Answer 26

1. Achieving new and more mature relations with age-mates of both sexes 2. Achieving a masculine or feminine social role 3. Accepting one’s physique and using the body effectively 4. Achieving emotional independence of parents and other adults 5. Preparing for marriage and family life 6. Preparing for an economic career 7. Acquiring a set of values and an ethical system as a guide to behaviour; developing ideology 8. Desiring and achieving socially responsible behavior

Question 27

EARLY ADULTHOOD

Answer 27

1. Selecting a mate 2. Learning to live with a marriage partner 3. Starting a family 4. Rearing children 5. Managing a home 6. Getting started in an occupation 7. Taking on civic responsibilities 8. Finding a congenial (suitable) social group

Question 28

MIDDLE ADULTHOOD

Answer 28

1. Achieving adult civic and social responsibility 2. Establishing and maintaining an economic standard of living 3. Assisting teenage children to become responsible and happy adults 4. Developing adult leisure time activities 5. Relating oneself to one’s spouse as a person 6. Accepting and adjusting to the physiologic changes or middle age 7. Adjusting to aging parent

Question 29

LATE ADULTHOOD

Answer 29

1. Adjusting to decreasing physical strength and health 2. Adjusting to retirement and reduced income 3. Adjusting to death of a spouse 4. Establishing an explicit affiliation with one’s age group 5. Meeting social and civil obligations 6. Establishing satisfactory physical living arrangement

Question 29

LATE ADULTHOOD

Answer 29

1. Adjusting to decreasing physical strength and health 2. Adjusting to retirement and reduced income 3. Adjusting to death of a spouse 4. Establishing an explicit affiliation with one’s age group 5. Meeting social and civil obligations 6. Establishing satisfactory physical living arrangement