GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT ACROSS
THE LIFESPAN COMPREHENSIVE
EXAMINATION TEST 2026 FULL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
◉Fetal stage. Answer: The third and last stage of prenatal
development, is the prenatal stage between two months after
conception and birth. Growth and development continue their
dramatic course during this time.
◉Teratogen. Answer: Any agent that can potentially cause a birth
defect or negatively alter cognitive and behavioral outcomes.
◉Cephalocaudal pattern of growth. Answer: The sequence in which
the earliest growth always occurs at the top—the head—with
physical growth and differentiation of features gradually working
their way down from top to bottom (for example, shoulders, middle
trunk, and so on). This same pattern occurs in the head area,
because the top parts of the head—the eyes and brain—grow faster
than the lower parts, such as the jaw.
◉Proximodistal pattern of growth. Answer: The sequence in which
growth starts at the center of the body and moves toward the
,extremities. For example, infants control the muscles of their trunk
and arms before they control their hands and fingers, and they use
their whole hands before they can control several fingers.
◉Reflexes. Answer: Built-in reactions to stimuli.
newborn- sucking, rooting, grasping, moro
lifelong- blinking, sneezing, coughing, yawning
◉Dynamic systems theory. Answer: The perspective on motor
development that seeks to explain how motor behaviors are
assembled for perceiving and acting. To develop motor skills, infants
must perceive something in their environment that motivates them
to act and use their perceptions to fine-tune their movements. Motor
skills represent solutions to the infant's goals
◉Sensation. Answer: the product of the interaction between
information and sensory receptors- the eyes, ears, tongue, nostrils,
and skin.
◉Perception. Answer: the interpretation of what was sensed.
, ◉Ecological veiw. Answer: the view that preception functions to
bring organisms in contact with the environment and to increase
adaptation.
◉Affordances. Answer: opportunities for interaction offered by
objects that fit within our capabilities to perform functional
activities
◉Schemes (Piaget). Answer: actions or mental representations that
organize knowledge
◉Accommodations (Piaget). Answer: when children adjust their
schemes to take new information and experiences into account.
◉Assimilation (Piaget). Answer: when children use their existing
schemes to deal with new information or experiences.
◉Object Permanence (Piaget). Answer: the understanding that
objects continue to exist even when they cannot be seen, heard, or
touched. Acquiring the sense of object permanence is one of the
infant's most important accomplishments, according to Piaget.
◉Equilibrium (Piaget). Answer: balance between assimilation and
accommodation
THE LIFESPAN COMPREHENSIVE
EXAMINATION TEST 2026 FULL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
◉Fetal stage. Answer: The third and last stage of prenatal
development, is the prenatal stage between two months after
conception and birth. Growth and development continue their
dramatic course during this time.
◉Teratogen. Answer: Any agent that can potentially cause a birth
defect or negatively alter cognitive and behavioral outcomes.
◉Cephalocaudal pattern of growth. Answer: The sequence in which
the earliest growth always occurs at the top—the head—with
physical growth and differentiation of features gradually working
their way down from top to bottom (for example, shoulders, middle
trunk, and so on). This same pattern occurs in the head area,
because the top parts of the head—the eyes and brain—grow faster
than the lower parts, such as the jaw.
◉Proximodistal pattern of growth. Answer: The sequence in which
growth starts at the center of the body and moves toward the
,extremities. For example, infants control the muscles of their trunk
and arms before they control their hands and fingers, and they use
their whole hands before they can control several fingers.
◉Reflexes. Answer: Built-in reactions to stimuli.
newborn- sucking, rooting, grasping, moro
lifelong- blinking, sneezing, coughing, yawning
◉Dynamic systems theory. Answer: The perspective on motor
development that seeks to explain how motor behaviors are
assembled for perceiving and acting. To develop motor skills, infants
must perceive something in their environment that motivates them
to act and use their perceptions to fine-tune their movements. Motor
skills represent solutions to the infant's goals
◉Sensation. Answer: the product of the interaction between
information and sensory receptors- the eyes, ears, tongue, nostrils,
and skin.
◉Perception. Answer: the interpretation of what was sensed.
, ◉Ecological veiw. Answer: the view that preception functions to
bring organisms in contact with the environment and to increase
adaptation.
◉Affordances. Answer: opportunities for interaction offered by
objects that fit within our capabilities to perform functional
activities
◉Schemes (Piaget). Answer: actions or mental representations that
organize knowledge
◉Accommodations (Piaget). Answer: when children adjust their
schemes to take new information and experiences into account.
◉Assimilation (Piaget). Answer: when children use their existing
schemes to deal with new information or experiences.
◉Object Permanence (Piaget). Answer: the understanding that
objects continue to exist even when they cannot be seen, heard, or
touched. Acquiring the sense of object permanence is one of the
infant's most important accomplishments, according to Piaget.
◉Equilibrium (Piaget). Answer: balance between assimilation and
accommodation
