Define developmental Psychology

(a) Developmental Psychology is a branch of psychology that focuses on the study of human development, encompassing physical, cognitive, emotional, and social changes that occur from conception to adolescence. It examines how individuals grow, learn, and evolve over time, investigating the factors that influence their development.

(b) Growth refers to quantitative changes in an organism, encompassing both physical and mental aspects. It involves permanent increases in size and structure, such as height, weight, and internal organ development, as well as mental changes like memory, reasoning, perception, and creativity. Growth is a result of multiple cell divisions known as mitosis. Growth refers to quantitative changes in an organism. This usually involves permanent increase in size and structure of organisms. These quantitative changes are both physical and mental

Maturation, on the other hand, is the gradual unfolding of an individual’s innate potential and traits due to hereditary factors. It involves the development of the central nervous system and occurs alongside physical growth. Maturation also requires time and experience to fully manifest, leading to individual differences in developmental trajectories.

Maturation goes along with physical growth and the development of the central nervous system. For maturation, time and experience are also inevitable.

Evaluation

1. Developmental Psychology focuses on human development from _______ to adolescence.
a) Birth
b) Conception
c) Adulthood

2. Growth involves permanent increases in _______ and structure.
a) Weight
b) Color
c) Flexibility

3. Quantitative changes in growth encompass _______ aspects.
a) Physical and mental
b) Emotional and social
c) Environmental and genetic

4. Maturation involves the gradual unfolding of _______ traits.
a) Inborn potentialities
b) Learned behaviors
c) Environmental influences

5. Maturation is influenced by _______ factors.
a) Environmental
b) Hereditary
c) Social

6. Developmental Psychology explores changes in humans from _______ to adolescence.
a) Infancy
b) Middle age
c) Old age

7. Growth includes changes in _______ like height and weight.
a) Mental aspects
b) Physical aspects
c) Emotional aspects

8. Maturation is a process of _______ unfolding.
a) Sudden
b) Gradual
c) Reversible

9. Quantitative changes in growth are a result of _______.
a) Imagination
b) Cell divisions
c) Social interactions

10. Developmental Psychology examines the factors influencing _______.
a) Growth of plants
b) Human development
c) Animal behavior

11. Maturation occurs alongside _______.
a) Emotional growth
b) Physical growth
c) Social growth

12. Growth and maturation require _______ to fully manifest.
a) Time and experience
b) Isolation
c) Ignorance

13. Developmental Psychology studies changes from _______ to adolescence.
a) Adolescence to adulthood
b) Conception
c) Old age

14. Growth involves permanent increases in _______.
a) Intelligence
b) Size and structure
c) Creativity

15. Maturation is the unfolding of inborn _______.
a) Traits
b) Ideas
c) Memories

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