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Unit 2 - Human Development Flashcards

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1
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List the stages of Pre-natal Period

A

-Period of the Ovum or Germinal
Stage
- Period of the Embryo or
Embryonic Stage
- Period of the Fetus or Fetus
Stage

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List the five (5) principles/law of heredity

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  • Principle of reproduction
  • Principle of variation
  • Principle of dominance and
    recessiveness
  • Principle of change
  • Principle of sex-linked
    characteristics
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The older adolescent. This is from 18 to 24 years of age.

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Youth

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List the stages of Puberty

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  • Pre-pubescence
  • Post-pubescence
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Causes the baby to grasp tightly to objects placed in their hands

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Darwinian Reflex

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Provides all the raw materials and hidden potentials of an individual. It is a process whereby traits of parents are handed down to their offspring via the genes

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Heredity

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Extends from 21 to 40 years of age.

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Early Adulthood

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It refers to a progressive series of change leading to improvement; also referred to as development.

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Qualitative Changes

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9
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Starts from two years to the onset of puberty.

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Childhood Stage

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10
Q

List the four (4) major adjustment in infancy

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  • Adjustment to temperature
    change
  • Adjustment to breathing
  • Adjustment to taking
    nourishment
  • Adjustment to elimination
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From birth to two weeks.

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Infancy Period

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Where there is fanning out of the baby’s toes when his sole is touched.

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Babinski Reflex

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List the stages of Infancy Period

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  • Period of the Partunate
  • Period of the Neonate
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It includes changes in social and emotional aspects of personality.

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Psychosocial Development

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Extends from the second week of infancy up to the second year of life. Also known as the age of helplessness

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Babyhood Period

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Includes changes in the thought processes that could affect language, learning abilities and memory.

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Cognitive Development

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17
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Referred to as the number of periods in the life cycle

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Life-span Development

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Extends from two to six years. It is also called the age of curiosity.

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Early Childhood

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19
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Covers the rest of the infancy period.

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Period of the Neonate

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20
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List the nine (9) developments

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  • Physical Development
  • Psychosocial Development
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Qualitative Psychology
  • Quantitative Psychology
  • Heredity
  • Chromosomes
  • Genes
  • Environment
21
Q

List the seven (7) reflexes

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Sucking Reflex
Rooting Reflex
Babinski Reflex
Darwinian Reflex
Moro or Startle Reflex
Papillary Reflex
Swimming Reflex

22
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It is a process that continues from conception to death. Developmental psychologist are usually concerned with the changes in behavior over the life span

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Development

23
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Begins from the second week to eight weeks or two months.

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Period of the Embryo or Embryonic Stage

24
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Includes changes in bodily appearance and structure

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Physical Development

25
Q

List the childhood stages

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Early Childhood
Late Childhood

26
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Extends from 40 to 60 years of age

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Middle Adulthood

27
Q

List the two (2) stages of adolescence

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  • Teenager or the young
    adolescence
  • Youth
28
Q

The five (5) genetic/biological engineering

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  • Techniques for achieving
    conception
  • In-vitro fertilization
  • Artificial insemination by donor
  • Surrogate motherhood
  • Cloning/mapping
29
Q

Extends from 13 to 17 years of age

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Teenager or Young Adolescence

30
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Extends from six years up to the onset of puberty, sometimes between 11 to 12 years of age. It is labeled as the smart stage

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Late Childhood

31
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Covers the first 15 to 20 minutes after birth, once the umbilical cord has been cut.

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Period of the Partunate

32
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Newborn starts to suck things that touch their lips

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Sucking Reflex

33
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The real bearers of hereditary traits. Dominant genes – are strong genes; while Recessive genes – are weak genes.

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Genes

34
Q

Where babies usually make well-coordinated movements when they are put in water with face down

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Swimming Reflex

35
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Thread-like or rope-like bodies that contain the genes and usually found in pairs.

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Chromosomes

36
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Starts from conception to birth.

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Pre-natal Period

37
Q

Wherein the baby closes his eyes when there is a bright ray that hits his eyes.

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Papillary Reflex

38
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It refers to the measurable changes in an individual, also referred to as growth.

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Quantitative Changes

39
Q

Studied as a series of stages.

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Adulthood Stage

40
Q

Displayed when the baby hears a loud noise.

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Moro or Startle Reflex

41
Q

List the stages of adulthood

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Early Adulthood
Middle Adulthood
Late Adulthood

42
Q

Starts from fertilization to two weeks.

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Period of the Ovum or Germinal Stage

43
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Extends from 60 onwards.

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Late Adulthood

44
Q

Covers the eight weeks to birth

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Period of the Fetus or Fetus Stage

45
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Overlaps the end of childhood and it also touches the early part of adolescence. It is the period in the development of man at which the individual is physically capable of sexual reproduction

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Puberty Stage

46
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Babies would turn their head toward the source of something that stimulates their cheek or mouth

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Rooting Reflex

47
Q

List the types of birth

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  • Natural or spontaneous birth
  • Instrument birth
  • Breech birth
  • Transverse presentation birth
  • Cesarean-section birth
48
Q

Psychologists regard this period as beginning – when children become sexually mature – and ending when they reach the age of maturity.

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Adolescence Stage

49
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It determines the manner by which the raw materials are to be shaped. It refers to all the forces that affect man like physical, natural and social forces.

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Environment

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