HHG test

Genetic & Prenatal, infancy, childhood, adolescence & young adulthood, late adulthood

What are the stages of human growth?

1. Similar all around the world

2. Sequential, builds on earlier development

3. Individualized

4. Irrelated, independent but reinforce one another

5. Continuous throughout life

6. Multi-dimensional (biological, cognitive, socio-emotional)

7. Multi-directional (some aspects increase, others may decrease)

8. Plastic (changes)

9. Contextual (biological, historical, cultural)

Development is….

5 areas of human growth and development:

Physical, social, cognitive, emotional and moral

Inherited biologically, determined by genetic blueprints

Nature is…

Formed by the biological and social environmental experiences

Nurture is…

Continuity

Gradual, culmulative change

Discontinuity

Change in stages, abrupt

Developing into someone different than who we were at an earlier stage

Stability and change

The number of years that have passed since a persons birth

Chronological age

Age in terms of biological health, ones functioncal capabilites.

Biological age

Ones capacity to adapt compared to others of the same chronological age.

Psychological age

The social roles and expectations related to a person's age

Social

Frontal Lobe

1

Temporal Lobe

2

Brain stem

3

Cerebellum

4

Occipital Lobe

5

Parietal Lobe

6

Cerebrum

1

Brain stem

2

Midbrain

2.1

Pons

2.2

Medulla oblongata

2.3

Spinal cord

3

Cerebellum

4

Pituitary gland

5

Hypothalamus

6

Thalamus

7