Lesson 2: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT Flashcards
Refers to the quantitative changes, which is physical in height, weight, size and the structures of internal organs and brain
Growth
Points to the qualitative changes that is concerned with progressive means directional forward
Development
The origin of human competence is found in the critical period between?
8 to 18 months
Unfolding or coming out of the individuals inherent traits
Maturation
2 function of maturation
• Phylogenetic Function of Maturation
• Ontogenetic Function of Maturation
Is the function specific to individuals like writing, swimming, driving which are acquired through learning.
Ontogenetic Function of Maturation
Is the function that is common to all individuals like sitting, crawling, walking
Phylogenetic Function of Maturation
2 laws of developmental direction
• Cephalocaudal law
• Proximodistal law
Refers to the development spread outward from the central axis middle of the body to the extremities (arms and legs)
Proximodistal law
Pertains to the development spread out over the body from head to foot
Cephalocaudal law
Is when individuals adapt easily to the demands of their environments which result to easy personal and social adjusment
Equilibrium
Is when the individuals experience difficulties in their adaptation, as a result make poor personal and social adjustment.
Disequilibrium
2 factors of development
• heredity or nature
• environment or nurture
It is the sum total of the forces or experiences that a person attains from conception to old age
Environment or nurture
It is the transmissiom of traits or characteristics from parents or ancestors to offspring
Heredity or nature
Is it the process of escape of one mature ovum from the ovary to the fallopian tube
Ovulation
Female largest cell
Ovum
Fertilized egg cell
Zygote
Smallest cell of the male human body
Sperm
Meeting of the ripe female egg cell
Fertilization
Code of heredity
DNA
Source of nourishment
Placenta
Stage of love when infant finds interest in his body processes
Auto - aerotic
Shortest life span
Infancy
Number of chromosomes that children have
46
Hereditary carrier
Genes