HUMAN GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT
FINAL - JCJC (K. JONES) EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
prenatal - Correct Answers -conception to birth
infancy and toddlerhood - Correct Answers -growth from 1 month to 1 year old infant-
age 3 toddler
preschool - Correct Answers -3-6 years
middle childhood - Correct Answers -6-12 years old
adoloscence - Correct Answers -Puberty - early young adulthood 20
young adulthood - Correct Answers -20-40 years
middle adulthood - Correct Answers -40-65 years
late adulthood - Correct Answers -65 years and older
Causes of death - Correct Answers -...
Elderly people - Correct Answers -heart disease
Young adults - Correct Answers -Accidents
Adolescents - Correct Answers -Accidents
infancy - Correct Answers -SIDS
Physical Development - Correct Answers -Involves the body's physical makeup,
including the brain, nervous system, muscles, and senses, and the need for food, drink,
and sleep as a determinant of behavior.
cognitive development - Correct Answers -involves the ways that growth and change in
learning, memory, problem solving, and intelligence influence a person's behavior
, personality development - Correct Answers -involves the ways that the enduring
characteristics that differentiate one person from another change over the life span
Social Development - Correct Answers -is the way in which individual's interactions with
others and their social relationships grow, change, and remain stable over the course of
life.
nature-nurture issue - Correct Answers -is one of the main developmental issues in
psychology. it questions whether development is a result of biology (nature) or
environment (nurture)
physical - Correct Answers -any change that occurs to the physical body such as height,
weight, puberty, brain development, & motor skills
Stress - Correct Answers -Early adulthood tends to be more stressful even they are very
healthy and energetic
selective optimization - Correct Answers -the process people use in concentrating on
particular skill areas to compensate for losses in other areas
cognitive - Correct Answers -Mental abilities, thinking, intelligence, & memory
Pyschosocial - Correct Answers -changes in personality, social skills, peer influence &
play
Theories of Development - Correct Answers -...
Freud's psychoanalytic theory - Correct Answers -Suggests that unconscious forces act
to determine personality & behavior
Erikson's Psychosocial Development - Correct Answers -is the approach that
encompasses changes in our understandings of individuals, their interactions with
others, & their standing as members of society.
Piaget's Cognitive Theory - Correct Answers -focuses on the processes that allow
people to know, understand, and think about the world
germinal stage - Correct Answers -2 weeks, lasts conception - fertilized egg attaching to
uterus wall
embryonic period - Correct Answers -6 weeks, all organs and body systems developed
fetal period - Correct Answers -8th week - childbirth, longest stage
Stage 1: Dilation - Correct Answers -contractions begin to force open the cervix
FINAL - JCJC (K. JONES) EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
prenatal - Correct Answers -conception to birth
infancy and toddlerhood - Correct Answers -growth from 1 month to 1 year old infant-
age 3 toddler
preschool - Correct Answers -3-6 years
middle childhood - Correct Answers -6-12 years old
adoloscence - Correct Answers -Puberty - early young adulthood 20
young adulthood - Correct Answers -20-40 years
middle adulthood - Correct Answers -40-65 years
late adulthood - Correct Answers -65 years and older
Causes of death - Correct Answers -...
Elderly people - Correct Answers -heart disease
Young adults - Correct Answers -Accidents
Adolescents - Correct Answers -Accidents
infancy - Correct Answers -SIDS
Physical Development - Correct Answers -Involves the body's physical makeup,
including the brain, nervous system, muscles, and senses, and the need for food, drink,
and sleep as a determinant of behavior.
cognitive development - Correct Answers -involves the ways that growth and change in
learning, memory, problem solving, and intelligence influence a person's behavior
, personality development - Correct Answers -involves the ways that the enduring
characteristics that differentiate one person from another change over the life span
Social Development - Correct Answers -is the way in which individual's interactions with
others and their social relationships grow, change, and remain stable over the course of
life.
nature-nurture issue - Correct Answers -is one of the main developmental issues in
psychology. it questions whether development is a result of biology (nature) or
environment (nurture)
physical - Correct Answers -any change that occurs to the physical body such as height,
weight, puberty, brain development, & motor skills
Stress - Correct Answers -Early adulthood tends to be more stressful even they are very
healthy and energetic
selective optimization - Correct Answers -the process people use in concentrating on
particular skill areas to compensate for losses in other areas
cognitive - Correct Answers -Mental abilities, thinking, intelligence, & memory
Pyschosocial - Correct Answers -changes in personality, social skills, peer influence &
play
Theories of Development - Correct Answers -...
Freud's psychoanalytic theory - Correct Answers -Suggests that unconscious forces act
to determine personality & behavior
Erikson's Psychosocial Development - Correct Answers -is the approach that
encompasses changes in our understandings of individuals, their interactions with
others, & their standing as members of society.
Piaget's Cognitive Theory - Correct Answers -focuses on the processes that allow
people to know, understand, and think about the world
germinal stage - Correct Answers -2 weeks, lasts conception - fertilized egg attaching to
uterus wall
embryonic period - Correct Answers -6 weeks, all organs and body systems developed
fetal period - Correct Answers -8th week - childbirth, longest stage
Stage 1: Dilation - Correct Answers -contractions begin to force open the cervix
