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    The document defines development, growth, and maturation, and describes the different stages of human development from prenatal through adulthood. Prenatal development involves the stages from fertilization to birth. Postnatal development includes infancy, childhood, puberty, adolescence, and adulthood. The stages are further divided. Factors that can influence development are nature (heredity) and nurture (environment). A person's genetic makeup sets limits and potentials, while the environment shapes how those raw materials develop, for better or worse.

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    The document defines development, growth, and maturation, and describes the different stages of human development from prenatal through adulthood. Prenatal development involves the stages from fertilization to birth. Postnatal development includes infancy, childhood, puberty, adolescence, and adulthood. The stages are further divided. Factors that can influence development are nature (heredity) and nurture (environment). A person's genetic makeup sets limits and potentials, while the environment shapes how those raw materials develop, for better or worse.

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    The document defines development, growth, and maturation, and describes the different stages of human development from prenatal through adulthood. Prenatal development involves the stages from fertilization to birth. Postnatal development includes infancy, childhood, puberty, adolescence, and adulthood. The stages are further divided. Factors that can influence development are nature (heredity) and nurture (environment). A person's genetic makeup sets limits and potentials, while the environment shapes how those raw materials develop, for better or worse.

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    1.

    Define:
    a) Development refers to the increase of functional capacity in perfect form resulting from
    production of specialized tissues from unspecialized ones. It involves a progressive series
    of changes that are coherent and orderly.
    b) Growth is the increase in the size of the various parts and organs of the body by
    multiplication of cells and intercellular components during the period commencing from
    fertilization to physical maturity.
    c) Maturation refers to the development process encompassing the acquisition of body
    system function and structural form of an adult. Also, it is the gradual unfolding of
    hereditary traits and potentials.
    2. What are the different stages of human development? Provide a brief description for each
    stage.
    a) Prenatal stages consist of three stages prior to birth. First, the period of ovum or germinal
    stage starts from fertilization to two weeks. Then, from the second week to eighth week is
    the period of embryo. Lastly, the period of fetus that covers the eighth week to birth.
    b) Post natal stages are divided into infancy and babyhood. Infancy period is further
    subdivided into: partunate, as it covers the first 15 to 20 minutes after birth, once the
    umbilical cord has been cut; and neonate, as it covers the rest of the infancy period.
    While, babyhood covers the second week up to the second year of life.
    c) Childhood stage starts from two years to the onset of puberty and it is divided into two
    parts: early childhood stage and late childhood stage. Early childhood stage that extends
    from two years to six years. While, late childhood stage extends from six years up up the
    onset of puberty, sometimes between eleven to twelve years of age.
    d) Puberty, comes from the word pubertas, means age of manhood. This is divided into
    pre-pubescence and post-pubescence. The primary sexual characteristics, the changes in
    the reproductive apparatus, occur during the pre-pubescence. While, the completion in
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    the primary sexual characteristics and secondary characteristics, changes in traits that
    makes a male and a female typically adults in looks, happens in post-pubescence stage.
    e) Adolescence, comes from the word adolescere, means to grow to maturity. It is
    subdivided into two parts: teenager and youth. Teenager or the young adolescent stage is
    where most pubertal changes occur. Thus, it extends from 13 to 17 years of age.
    Subsequently, youth or older adolescent extends from 18 to 24 years of age.
    f) Adulthood stage is from the word adultus, meaning grown to full size or strength. It is
    divided into three parts: early adulthood, middle adulthood, and late adulthood. Early
    adulthood extends from 21 to 40 years of age. Middle adulthood extends from 40 to 60
    years of age. Late adulthood extends from 60 onwards.
    3. What are the factors that could influence/affect one's development?
    We attribute the differences among individuals as to abilities and personalities to two
    factors of development: nature or heredity and nurture or environment. Heredity is defined as a
    process whereby traits of parents are handed down to their offspring via the genes. Environment
    refers to all the forces that affect man, like physical forces, natural forces, and social forces.
    Generally, heredity serves as the raw materials of an individual, setting a limit at the same time
    as it also possess hidden potentials, while, the environment determines the manner by which the
    raw materials are to be shaped. For example, a kid have inherited a family trait of having a low
    level of IQ, attaining an average level of IQ is quite impossible for the kid, but with good
    instruction materials combined with good nutrition, the kid could attain the average level of IQ
    than he/she would have been if he/she was exposed to poor instruction materials and poor or
    little nutrition.

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