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human growth& behaviour development

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
To avoid birth defects, a pregnant woman needs to 
a)
get prenatal care
b)
avoid tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs
c)
eat a healthy diet
d)
do all the above
2.
The process of releasing a mature egg from an ovary is __________________.
a)
menstruation
b)
ovulation
c)
ejaculation
d)
endometrium
3.
After two months, the developing baby is technically called a
a)
embryo
b)
blastocyst
c)
fetus
d)
egg
4.
An embryo is the name of the developing baby up to the period of...
a)
Twelve weeks after conception
b)
Eight weeks after conception
c)
Twenty weeks after conception
d)
Fours weeks after conception
5.
This is the time when you develop physical characteristics of adults of your own gender.
a)
Adolescence
b)
Childhood
c)
Puberty
d)
Adulthood
6.
The joining of a male sperm cell and a female egg cell to form a human life.
a)
Reproduction
b)
Menstruation
c)
Ovulation
d)
Fertilization
7.

Sexual reproduction is vital to the propagation of the Human race. Which of the following sequences represents the correct order of events in the formation of a human fetus?

a)

Zygote → Blastocyst → Embryo → Fertilization

b)

Fertilization → Zygote → Blastocyst → Embryo

c)

Blastocyst → Embryo → Differentiation → Zygote

d)

Fertilization → Growth → Differentiation → Zygote

8.

In which of the following structures of the female human reproductive system is the blastocyst implanted during normal human development?

a)

Ovary

b)

uterus

c)

vagina

d)

amniotic sac

9.

What is Physical Development?

a)

Measuring the quantity of items

b)

The changes in size, body composition, chemical make-up, and height that occur as humans develop from birth through older adult good.

c)

Cultural expectations of when major life milestones occur

10.

What is Gross Motor Skills?

a)

No muscle movements

b)

Small muscle movements

c)

Large muscle movements

11.

What are Fine Motor Skills?

a)

Small muscle movements

b)

Large muscle movements

c)

No muscle movements

d)

Large and small muscle movements

12.

What is Cognition?

a)

Actions involving running and jumping

b)

Actions that involve nothing

c)

All of the actions or processes involving thinking and knowing

13.

What is Cognitive Development?

a)

Ideas about how people think.

b)

When students work in groups

c)

The changes in how people perceive, sense, organize, memorize, recall, reason, problem solve, and imagine that occur as humans develop from birth through older adulthood.

14.
Hormone responsible for the secondary sex characteristic changes in males.
a)
Estrogen
b)
Endocrine
c)
Testosterone
d)
Pituitary Gland
15.

Developing a feeling of oneness with the environment is under which developmental process?

a)

Biological process

b)

Cognitive process

c)

Spiritual process

d)

Socio-emotional process

16.

The following are developments during childhood, EXCEPT

a)

Rapid biological changes

b)

Learning self-reliance

c)

Development of language skills

d)

Ability to process abstract thoughts

17.

The following are traits acquired in adulthood EXCEPT

a)

Increase in risk-taking behavior

b)

Increased intensity of career development

c)

Interest in transmitting values to the next generation

d)

Adaptation to changing social roles

18.
Responsible for controlling the fear response and non-verbal interpretations.
a)
Thalamus
b)
Hypothalamus
c)
Amygdala
d)
Hippocampus
19.
Name Gardner's eight intelligences.
a)
Body, eyes, brain, speech, environment, music, self-aware, and other aware
b)
Moving, seeing, thinking, speaking, appreciating, singing, reflecting, and communicating
c)
Bodily/Kinesthetic, Visual/Spatial, Logical/Mathematical, Verbal/Linguistic, Naturalist, Musical/Rhythmical, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal
d)
Physical, visual, intellectual, verbal, natural, musical, personal, and public
20.
What are the characteristics of Gardner's bodily/kinesthetic intelligence?
a)
Drawing, building, or designing
b)
Physical prowess, coordination, fitness, and action
c)
Thinking in symbols or abstractions
d)
Listening, reading, or thinking
21.

The process of obtaining information that has been stored in memory

a)

encoding

b)

retrieval

c)

chunking

d)

recognition

22.

Conceptual frameworks a person uses to make sense of the world

a)

procedural

b)

semantic

c)

chunking

d)

schemas

23.

The transforming of information so the nervous system can process it

a)

retrieval

b)

storage

c)

encoding

d)

confabulation

24.

The act of filling in memory gaps

a)

confabulation

b)

chunking

c)

storage

d)

encoding

25.

The process of grouping items to make them easier to remember

a)

encoding

b)

recognition

c)

chunking

d)

episodic

26.

Memory retrieval in which a person reconstructs previously learned material

a)

storage

b)

retrieval

c)

recall

d)

encoding

27.

The idea that information needs to be converted into a form that is meaningful to the person learning it is referred to as

a)

Encoding

b)

Storage

c)

Recall

d)

Consolidation

28.

STM has a capacity of

a)

infinite information

b)

5- 9 items

c)

30 seconds

d)

3-4 seconds

29.

This is the first process of placing information in the memory

a)

incoming information

b)

encoding

c)

short-term memory

d)

long-term memory

30.

The process of getting information from the Short-term memory to the Long term memory is

a)

primacy effect

b)

visual memory

c)

sensory memory

d)

retrieval

31.

Creative thinking is..

a)

operating like a machine.

b)

thinking outside the box.

c)

thinking logically.

d)

knowing the facts.

32.

It is a stage in Piaget's Theory where a child understand the world by coordinating sensory experiences.

a)

Sensorimotor Stage

b)

Preoperational Stage

c)

Concrete Operational Stage

d)

Formal Operational Stage

33.

The stage in Piaget's Theory where a child have the ability to systematically solve a problem in a logical and methodological way.

a)

Sensorimotor Stage

b)

Preoperational Stage

c)

Concrete Operational Stage

d)

Formal Operational Stage

34.

Short Term Memory

a)

The retention of encoded material over time.

b)

the process in which information in your memory can be recalled

c)

the part of the memory system where information is stored for roughly 30 seconds

d)

a way of organizing information into familiar groupings.

35.

Semantic memory

a)

Taking a photograph in one's mind of a specific event

b)

general knowledge that people remember, like counting by 10s

c)

memory of a specific event that took place in the person’s presence or through experience

d)

only is lost after a bout of anmesia

36.

Perception is

a)

how our brain interacts with our nervous system

b)

how we relay information to others

c)

how we comprehend objects and events in the world around us

d)

what our eyes see

37.

What is stigma?

a)

disease marked by mood swings from extreme "highs" to extreme "lows"

b)

anxiety disorder characterized by sudden unexplained feelings of terror

c)

serious condition in which feelings of helplessness and sadness last for weeks or months

d)

condition in which real or imagined fears are hard to control

e)

a mark of disapproval that results in ones being rejected by others

38.

Which of the following is NOT a symptom of depression?

a)

Increased energy levels

b)

Difficulty concentrating

c)

Changes in appetite or weight

d)

Recurrent thoughts of death

39.

The third stage of stress is called:

a)

Alarm stage

b)

Resistance stage

c)

Exhaustion stage

40.

The fight or flight response is initiated during the __________ stage of stress.

a)

Alarm

b)

Resistance

c)

Exhaustion

41.

Which of the following is a warning sign of stress?

a)

Over/under eating

b)

Troubles sleeping

c)

Irritable

d)

All are warning signs of stress

42.

What is stress?

a)

The body’s reaction to any physical, mental, or emotional change

b)

The body producing white blood cells

c)

A disagreement or argument

d)

A type of compromise

43.

Eustress is what kind of stress?

a)

Neutral

b)

Offensive

c)

Positive

d)

Negative

44.

Relying on defense mechanisms for a long period of time

a)

will solve all your problems

b)

has no effect on your relationships

c)

may make your distress even worse

d)

all of the above

45.

ignoring the problem is

a)

rationalization

b)

displacement

c)

denial

d)

repression

46.

The way you feel about yourself, and how you value yourself

a)

Self-respect

b)

Self-esteem

c)

Balance

d)

Self-concept

47.

The view you have of yourself is your

a)

Self-concept

b)

Self-esteem

c)

Self-respect

d)

Balance

48.

Which among the following is a neurotransmitter?

a)

adrenaline

b)

oxytocin

c)

insulin

d)

dopamine

49.

After amputation, a patient may still feel pain over the severed limb for some time. This is called

a)

illusion

b)

delusion

c)

olfactory hallucination

d)

tactile hallucination

e)

none of the above

50.

The pioneer author in the field of Developmental psychology

a)

Sigmund Freud

b)

Erick Erickson

c)

Agatha Christy

d)

Elizabeth Hurlock