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HOSA - HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT: THEORIES OF DEVELOPMENT
16% EXAM 2025-2026 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Terms in this set (68) Q & A
Growth
-answer- increase of physical size
Development
-answer- progressive acquisation of skills and the capasity to function
Maturation
-answer- skills and potential that are independent of practice emerge - full development of a
skill
Cephalocaudal
-answer- growth and development beginning at the head of an individual and progressing
towards the feed
Proximodistal
-answer- growth and development from the contre of the body towards the extermities
Assumptions
-answer- gd occurs in an orderly pattern (holding head before sitting), continuous process of
growth spurts and slow/steady growth (fast as child, slow as adolecent), rates are different
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per individual, affect all body systems, total process to affect a person mentally, physically and
socially
Sigmund Freud
-answer- Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud: Conscious
-answer- experience within our immediate awareness, based on reality and logic
Sigmund Freud: Preconscious/Subconscious
-answer- memories, feelings and thoughts that are easily accessible
Sigmund Freud: Unconscious
-answer- painful memories closed off to prevent anxiety and stress
Id
-answer- selfish instinct to please their immediate wants and needs (main reason for most
human behaviour)
Ego
-answer- "executive of the mind" close connection to realtiy to delay satifaction
Superego
-answer- development of ego to control, punish and dictate right from wrong
HOSA - HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT: THEORIES OF DEVELOPMENT
16% EXAM 2025-2026 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Terms in this set (68) Q & A
Growth
-answer- increase of physical size
Development
-answer- progressive acquisation of skills and the capasity to function
Maturation
-answer- skills and potential that are independent of practice emerge - full development of a
skill
Cephalocaudal
-answer- growth and development beginning at the head of an individual and progressing
towards the feed
Proximodistal
-answer- growth and development from the contre of the body towards the extermities
Assumptions
-answer- gd occurs in an orderly pattern (holding head before sitting), continuous process of
growth spurts and slow/steady growth (fast as child, slow as adolecent), rates are different
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per individual, affect all body systems, total process to affect a person mentally, physically and
socially
Sigmund Freud
-answer- Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud: Conscious
-answer- experience within our immediate awareness, based on reality and logic
Sigmund Freud: Preconscious/Subconscious
-answer- memories, feelings and thoughts that are easily accessible
Sigmund Freud: Unconscious
-answer- painful memories closed off to prevent anxiety and stress
Id
-answer- selfish instinct to please their immediate wants and needs (main reason for most
human behaviour)
Ego
-answer- "executive of the mind" close connection to realtiy to delay satifaction
Superego
-answer- development of ego to control, punish and dictate right from wrong
