Checkpoint
1. What is a neonate?
2. Describe a neonate’s physical characteristics.
3. How is the health and wellness of a newborn determined?
4. Describe newborns’ refl exes and their abilities to hear, feel, touch, see,
and taste.
5. What are some of the family adjustments that occur when a newborn
comes home?
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18 Part 1 Foundations of Human Development Chapter 1 An Introduction to Lifespan Development 19
Common Core
College
and Career
Readiness
11. Writing. Write a
two-page paper
about how you have
grown and changed
physically, intellectually,
emotionally, and socially
since your fi rst day of
high school.
12. Speaking. Practice and give a one
minute speech on why studying human
development is important.
13. Listening. Ask a parent or another
adult how they have changed since
graduating from high school.
14. Reading. Read a biography about
someone’s life. How has that person
grown and changed over his or her
lifetime?
15. Math. Find the birth length of yourself
or someone else your age. Compare
your birth length to your current
height. What is your percentage
growth?
16. CTE Career Readiness Practice.
Presume you are the human resources
director of a small business. Recent
research shows that employees who
have good eating habits and total
wellness have a positive impact
on productivity. You are forming
a workplace Wellness Council. Get
together with your council members
(two or more classmates) and
brainstorm a list of several possible
ideas for encouraging healthful eating
and wellness among employees. Then
narrow the list to the three best options.
How would you implement one of
these options? How would you get
employees involved? What criteria
will you use to determine how well
employees are meeting healthful living
goals?
Critical Thinking
1. Determine. At which age are you at
your prime in life? Why?
2. Analyze. Do reality television shows
harm participants?
3. Predict. How do you predict that you
will grow and change between now
and when you are age 30?
4. Identify. If you could choose any age to
be today, what age would you choose?
Why?
5. Draw conclusions. Observe a teacher
who uses the andragogy teaching
method. Why do you think this method
was chosen?
6. Evaluate. Do you think that people of
different ages can be close friends? If
not, why not?
7. Assess. Which aspect of development is
most important to overall growth and
development?
8. Compare and contrast. Choose one
year from your life as a child and
another from your teen years. How are
you the same? How are you different?
9. Make inferences. Make a photo picture
collage of a celebrity or someone
you know from infancy to present
age. What factors may have affected
the visible growth and development
changes? What invisible changes do
you assume?
10. Cause and effect. How might eating
the same unhealthy meal for lunch and
dinner for the next fi ve years affect
your development?
Research
17. Search for an electronic news article
about aging or a medical breakthrough
on extending the lifespan. Is the article
from a scientifi c, medical, or well-
known educational institution? Avoid
articles that lack objectivity.
18. Choose a decade from the past century.
Research the social, political, economic,
and historic events of that decade.
How might these events have affected
someone who was a teen during
this decade? Create an electronic
presentation of your fi ndings to share
with the class.
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19. Arrange to interview an older
adult about how both heredity and
environment infl uenced his or her
development through the lifespan.
What traits did he or she inherit?
What events had a great infl uence
on development? Prepare a list of
questions you would like to ask prior
to the interview. After the interview,
create a scrapbook to record the
interview questions and responses.
You may wish to expand your project
by developing an FCCLA Power of One
project for Family Ties. Use the FCCLA
Planning Process to guide your project
planning. See your FCCLA adviser for
further information.
Summary
The study of human development
encompasses all the aspects of human
growth from birth through old age. These
include the progressive changes seen in
physical growth, intellectual or cognitive
abilities, and socio-emotional development.
Development occurs in an orderly and
gradual manner. Every person’s rate and
timing of development is unique. No two
people develop exactly the same, although
similarities can be seen throughout stages
of life.
A lot is known about human
development, but there is still much
more to learn. Today, debates continue
about several prominent issues. How
much of development can be attributed
to genetics? How much can be attributed
to environment? This is the nature versus
nurture debate. Whether development
occurs slowly over the lifespan or is a
result of abrupt changes is also debated.
Lastly, whether development is directed by
the person or a caregiver continues to be
pondered. In all three of these issues, the
answer is both. What is not yet answered is
how much?
Online Resources
Check your understanding of vocabulary
terms and main concepts for Chapter 1 at
www.g-wlearning.com/development/
ompanion ompanion
Website Website
www.g-wlearning.com/development/
Questions challenge you to use higher-level critical
thinking skills when reviewing chapter concepts.
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Critical Thinking
For college and career readiness, these activities
link chapter content to various academic areas such
as writing, reading, speaking, listening, and math.
Common Core
Apply various research methods to explore
chapter topics and complete activities.
Research
Individual and team activities suggest ways
to expand projects for competitive events.
I di id l d
Event Prep
Questions that appear throughout the
chapter test your reading comprehension.
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Checkpoint
Link to the text’s Companion Website at
www.g-wlearning.com/development/
to check
your understanding of the chapter material.
Online Resources