HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT EXAM
SCRIPT 2026 FULL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
◉ Cognitive Development. Answer: development involving the ways
that growth and change in intellectual capabilities influence a person's
behavior.
◉ Personality Development. Answer: development involving the ways
that the enduring characteristics that differentiate one person from
another change over the life span.
◉ Social Development. Answer: the way in which individuals'
interactions with others and their social relationships grow, change, and
remain stable over the course of life.
◉ Cohort. Answer: a group of people born at around the same time in
the same place.
◉ Continuous Change. Answer: gradual development in which
achievements at one level build on those of previous levels.
, ◉ Discontinuous Change. Answer: development that occurs in distinct
steps or stages, with each sate bringing about behavior that is assumed to
be qualitatively different from behavior at earlier stages.
◉ Critical Period. Answer: a specific time during development when a
particular event has its greatest consequences and the presence of certain
kinds of environmental stimuli is necessary for development to proceed
normally.
◉ Sensitive Period. Answer: a point in development when organisms are
particularly susceptible to certain kinds of stimuli in their environment,
but the absence of those stimuli does not always produce irreversible
consequences.
◉ Maturation. Answer: the predetermined unfolding of genetic
information
◉ Theories. Answer: explanations and predictions concerning
phenomena of interest, providing a framework for understanding the
relationships among an organized set of facts or principles.
◉ Psychodynamic Perspective. Answer: the approach stating that
behavior is motivated by inner forces, memories, and conflicts that are
generally beyond people's awareness and control.
SCRIPT 2026 FULL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
◉ Cognitive Development. Answer: development involving the ways
that growth and change in intellectual capabilities influence a person's
behavior.
◉ Personality Development. Answer: development involving the ways
that the enduring characteristics that differentiate one person from
another change over the life span.
◉ Social Development. Answer: the way in which individuals'
interactions with others and their social relationships grow, change, and
remain stable over the course of life.
◉ Cohort. Answer: a group of people born at around the same time in
the same place.
◉ Continuous Change. Answer: gradual development in which
achievements at one level build on those of previous levels.
, ◉ Discontinuous Change. Answer: development that occurs in distinct
steps or stages, with each sate bringing about behavior that is assumed to
be qualitatively different from behavior at earlier stages.
◉ Critical Period. Answer: a specific time during development when a
particular event has its greatest consequences and the presence of certain
kinds of environmental stimuli is necessary for development to proceed
normally.
◉ Sensitive Period. Answer: a point in development when organisms are
particularly susceptible to certain kinds of stimuli in their environment,
but the absence of those stimuli does not always produce irreversible
consequences.
◉ Maturation. Answer: the predetermined unfolding of genetic
information
◉ Theories. Answer: explanations and predictions concerning
phenomena of interest, providing a framework for understanding the
relationships among an organized set of facts or principles.
◉ Psychodynamic Perspective. Answer: the approach stating that
behavior is motivated by inner forces, memories, and conflicts that are
generally beyond people's awareness and control.
