NAME: MARINEL T.

MATALUBOS BSED ENGLISH 1

PROF ED 601

EVALUATION:

1. DISCUSS THE DIFFERENT FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT.

ANSWER: Growth and development happen across the life stages and focuses on the physical,
intellectual, emotional, and social changes.
These are several factors that affect growth and development. First, the heredity. This factor mainly
implies about the biological transmission of the parents to their children. The characteristics of
parents can be transmitted to their offspring such as, intelligence, weight, color, etc.
The second factor is sex. In this aspect, physical and emotional growth are usually change
during the puberty stage. Changes among girls have a huge difference from boys. Girls usually grow
fast during early puberty while boys stay behind girls in height. But when it comes in adolescence,
boys end up taller than girls.
The third factor is, socioeconomic. Socioeconomic simply means, social status. The growth and
development of every child may vary in the social standing of his own family in the society. For
example, if your ancestry is wealthy, then it could not be possible that they can’t buy plenty of foods
and give you a stable life. While the poverty-stricken families whose income is not enough to
provide the needs for their children, the nutritional status will fail. Then it can a cause for the delay
growth of the children.
The next factor is the Nutritional factor. Our body needs vitamins for us to grow fast and
healthy. If a child eats nutritious foods and take vitamins, he can achieve normal growth and good
development emotionally and physically. But when the child is lacking those nutritious foods, he
might become malnourished and affects his normal growth.
The fifth on the list is the hormones factor. Hormones are essential to the reproduction of all
the body systems of our body. Also, hormones are an important factor when it comes to growth and
development. It helps to regulate blood pressure and it is a supporting entity for our growth.
The sixth factor is Pollution. Air pollution mainly brought bad effects on human growth. Also,
pollution from Lead have bad impacts especially on the children. Young children are very vulnerable
to the toxic effects of Leads and may suffered permanent health effects. Added to that, long
exposure to Lead can affect the normal development of the brain and nervous systems.
The seventh factor, the Racial factor. In Africa, the people there have same tone of skins, hair,
facial structure etc. This means that, racial factors can truly influence growth and development of a
particular child.
Lastly the environment factor. For me, environment has an important role in our development.
what we can see and observe in our environment is what the traits we can adapt.

2. WHY THAT ENVIRONMENT PLAYS A CRITICAL ROLE ON OUR DEVELOPMENT AS AN INDIVIDUAL?

ANSWER: The environment is an important factor that influence our growth and development. It
plays a vital role in our development as an individual. Why? Because the environment directly
influences every person’s behavior. Like for example, when a particular child grew up and is raised
by irresponsible parents and lives in a chaotic community that there’s been a lot of noise, war, etc.
This kind of environment might bring a negative impact on a child’s behavior. And he even brought
that manner in the school or anywhere. When we reverse the situation, if a child grew up in a good
and peaceful community, then surely, he would become a good person as he getting older. To make
it short, our development will also depend on what the environment shows us.

3. GIVE THE DIFFERENT PRINCIPLES OF GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT AND EXPLAIN ON HOW YOU
UNDERSTAND EACH PRINCIPLE.
ANSWER: There are thirteen (13) different principles of growth and development:
 Normative sequence – this kind of principle states that how an individual grew
up of being normal physically, mentally and emotionally. For me, these
developments occur in a normal sequence.
 Differentiation and integration –

 Development direction – There are two general patterns of physical growth.

First, the cephalo-caudial which means, head to toe. This development can be
seen in the earliest years of postnatal development specifically during infancy
up to toddlerhood. It usually affects the physical development of a child
especially growth in weight and size. Secondly, the proximodistal law. This
pattern of development starts at the center of the body and moves towards
extremities.
 Optimal tendency - Based on my understanding, every organism that include
human beings always find a way on how to achieved a good development by
seeking any available resources like foods, etc.
 Development – For me, development occurs during maturation period. All of us
can sit, walk, jump, and stand and all of those development are come from
maturation. Added to that, we can achieve those developments through learning
phylogenetic functions. In the other hand, we also learn ontogenic functions,
functions such as, writing, driving, dancing etc.
 Early foundations are critical – In my own opinion, the attitude or behavior
you’ve been doing since you were young will the same behavior you carry
throughout the entire life. It is very important to teach every child about good
manner while in early stage of their life. Parents will also be aware in their traits
in home because infants are sensitive. Early foundations are critical for each
human are laid.
 All individuals are different – I totally agree. Because we are different from each
other. For me, growth and developments of every individual is not the same.
Like for example, boys and girls have a difference to each other when it comes
to physical growth. Girls usually first to increase height than boys.
 Each phase of development has hazards – Each stage of development in our life
has hazards or problem. In the infancy stage, infants whose teeth started to
show up they got sick and they even feel uncomfortable. Further, as what I have
learned, girls during puberty stage got their periods and some become more
emotional. These hazards are always part of growing up.
 Development is aided by stimulation – Stimulation helps an individual to develop
their thinking capabilities and intelligence. While the child still young, it is
better to encourage him to play and let him enjoy because this can be a source
for a good development.
 Growth is unique – Growth is seldom and unique. All of parts of the body
including the cells are functioning for us to achieve growth. That was based on
my perception.
 There are social expectations for every stage of development. My understanding
on this was, every phase of our life we have different tasks to perform. For
example, when are starting our kindergarten stage, we’ve just sing, dance,
write, pronounce letters in an alphabet. But when we are in college, we have a
merely bigger responsibility and task to do.
 The various aspects of development are integrated. This only means that, every
stage of our development is meaningful and never waste it.

4. WHY DO WE NEED TO STUDY THE PRINCIPLES OF GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT?

ANSWER:
 We need to study the principles of growth and development because it is
important to know how humans learn, grow, mature, and adapt. It is also important to
know how a child go through different stages of development.
NAME: MARINEL T. MATALUBOS BSED ENGLISH 1
PROF ED 601
ASSIGNMENT:

QUESTION: HOW DOES THE SOCIOECONOMIC FACTOR AFFECT YOUR GROWTH AND
DEVELOPMENT?

ANSWER:

Socioeconomic is the social status or social standing of each family in a society.

In our situation, we are barely one of those poor families. Since I was born, I have
become aware of poverty. I have always experienced eating without a viand on my
plate or just salt and water. When we ate lunch in school, sometimes my viand is only
junk food that cost two pesos. That kind of food is unhealthy and lack of nutrients.
Before, our situation and way of living is very difficult. In fact, my father is a farmer
that merely owns a small field of coffee. His income is not enough to sustain our
nutritional needs. And I thought, that is the reason why I am malnourished,
underweight, and occasionally listless before when I was in elementary days. With
that, I can say that being malnourished can mainly affect your normal growth as an
individual. My physical aspects got delayed when it comes to physical development.