Unit 2 - Human Development

Question 1

List the stages of Pre-natal Period

Answer 1

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

Question 2

List the five (5) principles/law of heredity

Answer 2

• Principle of reproduction
• Principle of variation
• Principle of dominance and
  recessiveness
• Principle of change
• Principle of sex-linked
  characteristics

Question 3

The older adolescent. This is from 18 to 24 years of age.

Answer 3

Youth

Question 4

List the stages of Puberty

Answer 4

• Pre-pubescence
• Post-pubescence

Question 5

Causes the baby to grasp tightly to objects placed in their hands

Answer 5

Darwinian Reflex

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Heredity

Question 7

Extends from 21 to 40 years of age.

Answer 7

Early Adulthood

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Qualitative Changes

Question 9

Starts from two years to the onset of puberty.

Answer 9

Childhood Stage

Question 10

List the four (4) major adjustment in infancy

Answer 10

• Adjustment to temperature
  change
• Adjustment to breathing
• Adjustment to taking
  nourishment
• Adjustment to elimination

Question 11

From birth to two weeks.

Answer 11

Infancy Period

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Babinski Reflex

Question 13

List the stages of Infancy Period

Answer 13

• Period of the Partunate
• Period of the Neonate

Question 14

It includes changes in social and emotional aspects of personality.

Answer 14

Psychosocial Development

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Babyhood Period

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Cognitive Development

Question 17

Referred to as the number of periods in the life cycle

Answer 17

Life-span Development

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Early Childhood

Question 19

Covers the rest of the infancy period.

Answer 19

Period of the Neonate

Question 20

List the nine (9) developments

Answer 20

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

Question 21

List the seven (7) reflexes

Answer 21

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

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Development

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Period of the Embryo or Embryonic Stage

Question 24

Includes changes in bodily appearance and structure

Answer 24

Physical Development

Question 25

List the childhood stages

Answer 25

Early Childhood Late Childhood

Question 26

Extends from 40 to 60 years of age

Answer 26

Middle Adulthood

Question 27

List the two (2) stages of adolescence

Answer 27

- Teenager or the young adolescence - Youth

Question 28

The five (5) genetic/biological engineering

Answer 28

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

Question 29

Extends from 13 to 17 years of age

Answer 29

Teenager or Young Adolescence

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Late Childhood

Question 31

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

Answer 31

Period of the Partunate

Question 32

Newborn starts to suck things that touch their lips

Answer 32

Sucking Reflex

Question 33

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

Answer 33

Genes

Question 34

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

Answer 34

Swimming Reflex

Question 35

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

Answer 35

Chromosomes

Question 36

Starts from conception to birth.

Answer 36

Pre-natal Period

Question 37

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

Answer 37

Papillary Reflex

Question 38

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

Answer 38

Quantitative Changes

Question 39

Studied as a series of stages.

Answer 39

Adulthood Stage

Question 40

Displayed when the baby hears a loud noise.

Answer 40

Moro or Startle Reflex

Question 41

List the stages of adulthood

Answer 41

Early Adulthood Middle Adulthood Late Adulthood

Question 42

Starts from fertilization to two weeks.

Answer 42

Period of the Ovum or Germinal Stage

Question 43

Extends from 60 onwards.

Answer 43

Late Adulthood

Question 44

Covers the eight weeks to birth

Answer 44

Period of the Fetus or Fetus Stage

Question 45

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

Answer 45

Puberty Stage

Question 46

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

Answer 46

Rooting Reflex

Question 47

List the types of birth

Answer 47

- Natural or spontaneous birth - Instrument birth - Breech birth - Transverse presentation birth - Cesarean-section birth

Question 48

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

Answer 48

Adolescence Stage

Question 49

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.

Answer 49

Environment