HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
(QUIZ 1) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Growth - Correct Answers -Increase in body size or changes in structure, function, and
complexity of body cell content, metabolic and biochemical processes up to some point
of optimum maturity
Development - Correct Answers -Age-related changes that are orderly, cumulative, and
directional
Theory - Correct Answers -An organized set of ideas about how things operate; an
attempt to explain past findings and predict future ones
Behaviorism - Correct Answers -Learning theory that emphasizes the predictable role of
environment in causing observable behavior
Piaget (qualitative changes) - Correct Answers -Development of children's logical
reasoning abilities, cognitive development: changes in thinking that occur with age
among all typically developing children
Sensorimotor Period - Correct Answers -Birth-2years, infants understand the world
through sensory information and motor response
Model of Moral Development - Correct Answers -Kohlberg, stages: pre-conventional,
conventional, post-conventional morality (focused on men)
Theory of Motivation, Hierarchy of Needs - Correct Answers -Maslow, study of normal
people and mental health
Pre operational Period - Correct Answers -2 to 6 years, children use mental
representation to reason about the world, but thinking is not yet logical, they can think
about things not physically present, but reasoning is not yet logical or systematic
Concrete Operational Period - Correct Answers -7 to 11 years, children can perform
logical operations to reason about concrete objects
Information-Processing Theory (quantitative change) - Correct Answers -Gradual
improvements in attention, memory, and thinking that: greater skill in interpreting
events, wider range of problem-solving strategies, analyze steps children take in
performing a mental task, chart and explain cognitive changes that occur with age, and
interested in universal patterns of development
(QUIZ 1) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Growth - Correct Answers -Increase in body size or changes in structure, function, and
complexity of body cell content, metabolic and biochemical processes up to some point
of optimum maturity
Development - Correct Answers -Age-related changes that are orderly, cumulative, and
directional
Theory - Correct Answers -An organized set of ideas about how things operate; an
attempt to explain past findings and predict future ones
Behaviorism - Correct Answers -Learning theory that emphasizes the predictable role of
environment in causing observable behavior
Piaget (qualitative changes) - Correct Answers -Development of children's logical
reasoning abilities, cognitive development: changes in thinking that occur with age
among all typically developing children
Sensorimotor Period - Correct Answers -Birth-2years, infants understand the world
through sensory information and motor response
Model of Moral Development - Correct Answers -Kohlberg, stages: pre-conventional,
conventional, post-conventional morality (focused on men)
Theory of Motivation, Hierarchy of Needs - Correct Answers -Maslow, study of normal
people and mental health
Pre operational Period - Correct Answers -2 to 6 years, children use mental
representation to reason about the world, but thinking is not yet logical, they can think
about things not physically present, but reasoning is not yet logical or systematic
Concrete Operational Period - Correct Answers -7 to 11 years, children can perform
logical operations to reason about concrete objects
Information-Processing Theory (quantitative change) - Correct Answers -Gradual
improvements in attention, memory, and thinking that: greater skill in interpreting
events, wider range of problem-solving strategies, analyze steps children take in
performing a mental task, chart and explain cognitive changes that occur with age, and
interested in universal patterns of development
