Child Development questions and answers with
solutions 2025/2026
Child Development - ANSWER A field devoted to understanding
constancy and change from conception through adolescence.
Developmental Psychology - ANSWER A larger discipline that includes
child development, the study of consistencies and changes experienced
throughout one's lifetime.
Physical Development - ANSWER Changes in body size, proportion,
appearance, functioning of body system, perpetual and motor
capacities, and physical health.
Cognitive Development - ANSWER Changes in intellectual abilities,
including attention, memory, academic and everyday knowledge,
problem solving, imagination, creativity, and language.
Social and Emotional Development - ANSWER Changes in emotional
communication, self-understanding, knowledge about other people
interpersonal skills, friendships, intimate relationships, and moral
reasoning and behavior.
Prenatal Period - ANSWER From conception to birth.
,Infancy and Toddlerhood - ANSWER From birth to two years.
Early Childhood - ANSWER From two to six years.
Middle Childhood - ANSWER From six to 11 years.
Adolescence - ANSWER From 11 to 18 years or to mid-twenties
Continuos Development - ANSWER Developmental processes that are
characterized by the gradual accretion of skills that are present at birth.
Quantitative changes.
Discontinuous Development - ANSWER Developmental processes in
which new ways of understanding and responding to the world emerge
at specific times. Involves a series of abrupt, radical transformations.
Qualitative changes, referred to as Developmental Stages.
Variables that influence the course of development (context) - ANSWER
Familial factors, gender, ethnicity, race, cultural variables, personality
variables, socio-economic status (SES), and biological factors -
genotype/phenotype. Context= a unique combination of personal and
environmental circumstances that can result in different paths of
change.
Nurture - ANSWER Complex forces of the physical, cultural, and social
world that influence our experiences before and after birth.
(Environment)
, Nature - ANSWER Innate biological features: hereditary information we
receive from our parents at the moment of conception. (Genotype)
Sex - ANSWER Differences between females and males that is principally
attributed to biological differences between the sexes.
Gender - ANSWER The culturally grounded expressions of differences
between men and women. (Culture often magnifies the difference
between the sexes.)
Psychoanalytic Perspective on Child Development - ANSWER Children
move through a series of stages in which they confront conflicts
between biological drives and social expectations. How these conflicts
are resolved determines the person's ability to learn, to get along with
others, and to cope with anxiety. Two theorists associated with this are
Sigmund Freud and Erik Erikson. They believed in the ID, Ego, and
Superego.
Fruedian Psychosexual Stages of Development - ANSWER Oral, Anal,
Phallic, Latency, and Genital.
Oral - ANSWER Birth-1 year. New ego directs baby's activities towards
breast and bottle. If oral needs are not met through sucking from breast
or bottle, the individual may develop such habits as thumb sucking,
fingernail biting, overeating, or smoking.
solutions 2025/2026
Child Development - ANSWER A field devoted to understanding
constancy and change from conception through adolescence.
Developmental Psychology - ANSWER A larger discipline that includes
child development, the study of consistencies and changes experienced
throughout one's lifetime.
Physical Development - ANSWER Changes in body size, proportion,
appearance, functioning of body system, perpetual and motor
capacities, and physical health.
Cognitive Development - ANSWER Changes in intellectual abilities,
including attention, memory, academic and everyday knowledge,
problem solving, imagination, creativity, and language.
Social and Emotional Development - ANSWER Changes in emotional
communication, self-understanding, knowledge about other people
interpersonal skills, friendships, intimate relationships, and moral
reasoning and behavior.
Prenatal Period - ANSWER From conception to birth.
,Infancy and Toddlerhood - ANSWER From birth to two years.
Early Childhood - ANSWER From two to six years.
Middle Childhood - ANSWER From six to 11 years.
Adolescence - ANSWER From 11 to 18 years or to mid-twenties
Continuos Development - ANSWER Developmental processes that are
characterized by the gradual accretion of skills that are present at birth.
Quantitative changes.
Discontinuous Development - ANSWER Developmental processes in
which new ways of understanding and responding to the world emerge
at specific times. Involves a series of abrupt, radical transformations.
Qualitative changes, referred to as Developmental Stages.
Variables that influence the course of development (context) - ANSWER
Familial factors, gender, ethnicity, race, cultural variables, personality
variables, socio-economic status (SES), and biological factors -
genotype/phenotype. Context= a unique combination of personal and
environmental circumstances that can result in different paths of
change.
Nurture - ANSWER Complex forces of the physical, cultural, and social
world that influence our experiences before and after birth.
(Environment)
, Nature - ANSWER Innate biological features: hereditary information we
receive from our parents at the moment of conception. (Genotype)
Sex - ANSWER Differences between females and males that is principally
attributed to biological differences between the sexes.
Gender - ANSWER The culturally grounded expressions of differences
between men and women. (Culture often magnifies the difference
between the sexes.)
Psychoanalytic Perspective on Child Development - ANSWER Children
move through a series of stages in which they confront conflicts
between biological drives and social expectations. How these conflicts
are resolved determines the person's ability to learn, to get along with
others, and to cope with anxiety. Two theorists associated with this are
Sigmund Freud and Erik Erikson. They believed in the ID, Ego, and
Superego.
Fruedian Psychosexual Stages of Development - ANSWER Oral, Anal,
Phallic, Latency, and Genital.
Oral - ANSWER Birth-1 year. New ego directs baby's activities towards
breast and bottle. If oral needs are not met through sucking from breast
or bottle, the individual may develop such habits as thumb sucking,
fingernail biting, overeating, or smoking.
