HSS 4102 Development of Health
Problems through the Lifespan fully
solved
Prevalence Rate - correct answer ✔✔The proportion of people in a population who have a
particular disease at a specific point in time or over a specified period of time
Incidence Rate - correct answer ✔✔The number of new cases of a disease in a population over
a specific period of time
Chronic Illness - correct answer ✔✔an on-going illness, slow or gradual in onset; it has no
known cure; it can be controlled and complications prevented with proper treatment
Acute Illness - correct answer ✔✔a sudden illness from which a person is expected to recover
Morbidity Rates - correct answer ✔✔The incidence of diseases in a given population.
Mortality Rates - correct answer ✔✔number of deaths in a population at a given time
Three Broad Domain Categories of Development - correct answer ✔✔1. Physical Domain
2. cognitive Domain
3. Psychosocial Domain
Physical Domain of Development - correct answer ✔✔changes in the size, shape and
characteristics of the body. Eg physiological changes of puberty
,Cognitive Domain of Development - correct answer ✔✔Changes in thinking, memory, problem-
solving and other intellectual skills
Psychosocial Domain of Development - correct answer ✔✔The social domain includes changes
in variables that are associated with the relationship of an individual to others. Studies of social
skills and personalities fall under here.
Psych includes mental health.
Human Development - correct answer ✔✔the scientific study of the changes that occur in
people as they age from conception until death
What are the eight periods of development? - correct answer ✔✔1. prenatal
2. infancy
3. early childhood
4. middle childhood
5. adolescence
6. early adulthood
7. middle adulthood
8. late adulthood
Augustine of Hippo - correct answer ✔✔Christian writer who taught that Christians should
focus not on worldly goods but on God's plan for the world; his ideas helped shape Christian
beliefs.
Three Philosophical Approaches to Development - correct answer ✔✔1. Original sin
2. The Blank Slate
3. Innate Goodness
,Original sin philosophical approach to development - correct answer ✔✔Humans are born
selfish and must seek spiritual rebirth.
Jean-Jacques Rosseau - correct answer ✔✔Philosopher who published the "Social Contract". He
posited that people are born good but are corrupted by education, laws, and society.
innate Goodness Philosophical approach to development - correct answer ✔✔people were
born good. And that all they needed was to be nurtured and protected and they would grow up
with the normal milestones and would grow up to be good people.
John Locke - correct answer ✔✔English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge
is derived from sensory experience.
The blank slate philosophical approach to development - correct answer ✔✔Empiricism. You're
the result of things that you are exposed to in life. You are born as a blank slate. He also felt that
children can be molded into anything.
Empiricism - correct answer ✔✔the view that knowledge originates in experience and that
science should, therefore, rely on observation and experimentation
Charles Darwin - correct answer ✔✔Father of evolution
Who conducted the first organized study of human development? - correct answer ✔✔Charles
Darwin by means of his Baby biographies.
G. Stanley Hall - correct answer ✔✔pioneered the study of child development
Arnold Gessell - correct answer ✔✔This early child developmentalist believed that nature
provided only a blueprint for development through maturation and that environment or nurture
filled in the details.
, Systematic Description of Children across Domains, Particularly in the First Five Years of Life was
who? - correct answer ✔✔Arnold Gessell
Maturation - correct answer ✔✔Unfolding of genetically controlled changes as a child develops.
Jean Piaget - correct answer ✔✔1896-1980; Field: cognition; Contributions: created a 4-stage
theory of cognitive development, said that two basic processes work in tandem to achieve
cognitive growth (assimilation and accommodation)
According to Piaget, logical thinking developed in what four stages? - correct answer ✔✔1.
senses and motor abilities.
2. use of symbols
3. problem solving skills development
4. ability to apply logic
Lifespan Perspective - correct answer ✔✔a dynamic systems approach to development that
assumes development is lifelong, multidimensional and multidirectional, highly plastic, and
affected by multiple interacting forces
Three objectives of the population health approach - correct answer ✔✔1. improve the health
of the entire population
2. reduce health inequalities between different population groups
3. act on a range of factors and conditions that have a strong influence on our health
Determinants of Health - correct answer ✔✔Represent factors that directly cause illness and
disease or are risk factors that affect the health a population, community, or individual.
Problems through the Lifespan fully
solved
Prevalence Rate - correct answer ✔✔The proportion of people in a population who have a
particular disease at a specific point in time or over a specified period of time
Incidence Rate - correct answer ✔✔The number of new cases of a disease in a population over
a specific period of time
Chronic Illness - correct answer ✔✔an on-going illness, slow or gradual in onset; it has no
known cure; it can be controlled and complications prevented with proper treatment
Acute Illness - correct answer ✔✔a sudden illness from which a person is expected to recover
Morbidity Rates - correct answer ✔✔The incidence of diseases in a given population.
Mortality Rates - correct answer ✔✔number of deaths in a population at a given time
Three Broad Domain Categories of Development - correct answer ✔✔1. Physical Domain
2. cognitive Domain
3. Psychosocial Domain
Physical Domain of Development - correct answer ✔✔changes in the size, shape and
characteristics of the body. Eg physiological changes of puberty
,Cognitive Domain of Development - correct answer ✔✔Changes in thinking, memory, problem-
solving and other intellectual skills
Psychosocial Domain of Development - correct answer ✔✔The social domain includes changes
in variables that are associated with the relationship of an individual to others. Studies of social
skills and personalities fall under here.
Psych includes mental health.
Human Development - correct answer ✔✔the scientific study of the changes that occur in
people as they age from conception until death
What are the eight periods of development? - correct answer ✔✔1. prenatal
2. infancy
3. early childhood
4. middle childhood
5. adolescence
6. early adulthood
7. middle adulthood
8. late adulthood
Augustine of Hippo - correct answer ✔✔Christian writer who taught that Christians should
focus not on worldly goods but on God's plan for the world; his ideas helped shape Christian
beliefs.
Three Philosophical Approaches to Development - correct answer ✔✔1. Original sin
2. The Blank Slate
3. Innate Goodness
,Original sin philosophical approach to development - correct answer ✔✔Humans are born
selfish and must seek spiritual rebirth.
Jean-Jacques Rosseau - correct answer ✔✔Philosopher who published the "Social Contract". He
posited that people are born good but are corrupted by education, laws, and society.
innate Goodness Philosophical approach to development - correct answer ✔✔people were
born good. And that all they needed was to be nurtured and protected and they would grow up
with the normal milestones and would grow up to be good people.
John Locke - correct answer ✔✔English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge
is derived from sensory experience.
The blank slate philosophical approach to development - correct answer ✔✔Empiricism. You're
the result of things that you are exposed to in life. You are born as a blank slate. He also felt that
children can be molded into anything.
Empiricism - correct answer ✔✔the view that knowledge originates in experience and that
science should, therefore, rely on observation and experimentation
Charles Darwin - correct answer ✔✔Father of evolution
Who conducted the first organized study of human development? - correct answer ✔✔Charles
Darwin by means of his Baby biographies.
G. Stanley Hall - correct answer ✔✔pioneered the study of child development
Arnold Gessell - correct answer ✔✔This early child developmentalist believed that nature
provided only a blueprint for development through maturation and that environment or nurture
filled in the details.
, Systematic Description of Children across Domains, Particularly in the First Five Years of Life was
who? - correct answer ✔✔Arnold Gessell
Maturation - correct answer ✔✔Unfolding of genetically controlled changes as a child develops.
Jean Piaget - correct answer ✔✔1896-1980; Field: cognition; Contributions: created a 4-stage
theory of cognitive development, said that two basic processes work in tandem to achieve
cognitive growth (assimilation and accommodation)
According to Piaget, logical thinking developed in what four stages? - correct answer ✔✔1.
senses and motor abilities.
2. use of symbols
3. problem solving skills development
4. ability to apply logic
Lifespan Perspective - correct answer ✔✔a dynamic systems approach to development that
assumes development is lifelong, multidimensional and multidirectional, highly plastic, and
affected by multiple interacting forces
Three objectives of the population health approach - correct answer ✔✔1. improve the health
of the entire population
2. reduce health inequalities between different population groups
3. act on a range of factors and conditions that have a strong influence on our health
Determinants of Health - correct answer ✔✔Represent factors that directly cause illness and
disease or are risk factors that affect the health a population, community, or individual.
