Let’s Check

Activity 1. Now that you know the most essential terms pertaining to the concepts,
principles, and issues on human development. Let us try to check your knowledge
pertaining to these terms. In the space provided, put a check (/) before a correct
statement and an X before a wrong one. If you put X, explain why (2 points each).

✓ 1. Development is a pattern of change.

✓ 2. Development is either growth or decline.

✓ 3. From both traditional and life-span perspectives, developmental is lifelong.

✓ 4. In the development process, there are things that hold true to all people.

✓ 5. Individuals develop uniformly.

✓ 6. Developmental is predictable because it follows an orderly process.

X 7. Developmental is unidimensional.
No, because Development is Multidimensional not unidimensional.

✓ 8. The effect of biological process on development is isolated from the effect of

cognitive and socio-emotional process.

X 9. Developmental tasks are only for the first 3 stages of human development.
Developmental task is applicable to all the stages Human Development.

✓ 10. Failure of achieving development tasks in an earlier stage also means failure
for the learner to master the developmental task in the next stage.

✓ 11. Preschool age corresponds to early childhood stage.

✓ 12. Adolescence is middle and late childhood stage.

✓ 13. Teenage is middle childhood.

✓ 14. Heredity exerts a greater influence on human development than

environment.

X 15. What has been experienced in the earlier stages of the development can no
longer be changed.
Early Childhood usually defined as birth to year 8 is a time to tremendous
physical, cognitive, socio-emotional and language development.

✓ 16. Ego operates during the height of anger according to Freud’s personality
components.

✓ 17. According to Erikson, a child who is cold towards the people around him
might have failed to attain trust which is a basic goal based on psychosocial
development.

✓ 18. When a boy of 5 years old shows extreme attachment to his mother, he is
likely to be under anal stage.

✓ 19. Mr. Francisco was very much worried about the thumb sucking of his son. A
friend of him says that is certain behavior among infants as espoused by Erikson’s
psychosocial theory.
 ✓ 20. In adolescence, the major conflict centers on creating intimate, loving
relationship with the person of the opposite sex.