HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT 3 FINAL PAPER 2026
SOLVED QUESTIONS WITH FULL SOLUTION
ALREADY PASSED
◉ What are the folds separating the lobes called?
Answer: Fissures.
◉ What is the average amount of sleep for a newborn?
Answer: Approximately 16.5 hours per 24-hour period.
◉ What percentage of sleep time do newborns spend in the REM
phase?
Answer: Close to 50 percent.
◉ What are the grasping and stepping reflexes eventually replaced
by?
Answer: More voluntary behaviors.
◉ Which reflexes disappear within the first few months of life?
Answer: Grasping and stepping reflexes.
,◉ Which reflexes remain and serve important functions?
Answer: Eye-blink, swallowing, sneezing, and others.
◉ What is the pincer grasp?
Answer: Ability to grasp an object using the forefinger and thumb.
◉ What is the palmer grasp?
Answer: The use of the fingers and palm, but no thumbs.
◉ What are schemata or schemas?
Answer: Mental frameworks or concepts developed through
assimilation and accommodation.
◉ What is infantile amnesia?
Answer: The inability to recall memories from the first few years of
life.
◉ What is a phoneme?
Answer: The smallest unit of sound that makes a meaningful
difference in a language.
,◉ What are phonemes?
Answer: Distinct sounds used in language.
◉ What is cooing?
Answer: One-syllable combination of consonant and vowel sound.
◉ How do deaf babies communicate?
Answer: Through gestures.
◉ When do children start using their first words?
Answer: Around 12 or 13 months of age.
◉ What is divided attention?
Answer: Ability to switch focus between tasks or stimuli.
◉ Do younger children have more difficulty maintaining attention?
Answer: Yes.
◉ What is sensory memory?
Answer: First stage of the memory system.
◉ What is short-term or working memory?
, Answer: Second stage of the memory system.
◉ What is long-term memory?
Answer: Third stage of the memory system.
◉ What are semantic memories?
Answer: Memories for facts and knowledge not tied to a timeline.
◉ What are episodic memories?
Answer: Memories tied to specific events in time.
◉ What is epigenetics?
Answer: Study of how modifications in DNA affect gene expression.
◉ What are genotype-environment correlations?
Answer: Processes by which genetic factors contribute to variations
in the environment.
◉ What is bi-directional influence?
Answer: Parents and children mutually influence each other.
◉ What is temperament?
OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT 3 FINAL PAPER 2026
SOLVED QUESTIONS WITH FULL SOLUTION
ALREADY PASSED
◉ What are the folds separating the lobes called?
Answer: Fissures.
◉ What is the average amount of sleep for a newborn?
Answer: Approximately 16.5 hours per 24-hour period.
◉ What percentage of sleep time do newborns spend in the REM
phase?
Answer: Close to 50 percent.
◉ What are the grasping and stepping reflexes eventually replaced
by?
Answer: More voluntary behaviors.
◉ Which reflexes disappear within the first few months of life?
Answer: Grasping and stepping reflexes.
,◉ Which reflexes remain and serve important functions?
Answer: Eye-blink, swallowing, sneezing, and others.
◉ What is the pincer grasp?
Answer: Ability to grasp an object using the forefinger and thumb.
◉ What is the palmer grasp?
Answer: The use of the fingers and palm, but no thumbs.
◉ What are schemata or schemas?
Answer: Mental frameworks or concepts developed through
assimilation and accommodation.
◉ What is infantile amnesia?
Answer: The inability to recall memories from the first few years of
life.
◉ What is a phoneme?
Answer: The smallest unit of sound that makes a meaningful
difference in a language.
,◉ What are phonemes?
Answer: Distinct sounds used in language.
◉ What is cooing?
Answer: One-syllable combination of consonant and vowel sound.
◉ How do deaf babies communicate?
Answer: Through gestures.
◉ When do children start using their first words?
Answer: Around 12 or 13 months of age.
◉ What is divided attention?
Answer: Ability to switch focus between tasks or stimuli.
◉ Do younger children have more difficulty maintaining attention?
Answer: Yes.
◉ What is sensory memory?
Answer: First stage of the memory system.
◉ What is short-term or working memory?
, Answer: Second stage of the memory system.
◉ What is long-term memory?
Answer: Third stage of the memory system.
◉ What are semantic memories?
Answer: Memories for facts and knowledge not tied to a timeline.
◉ What are episodic memories?
Answer: Memories tied to specific events in time.
◉ What is epigenetics?
Answer: Study of how modifications in DNA affect gene expression.
◉ What are genotype-environment correlations?
Answer: Processes by which genetic factors contribute to variations
in the environment.
◉ What is bi-directional influence?
Answer: Parents and children mutually influence each other.
◉ What is temperament?
