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HOSA 2026 - Human Growth and Development Theories of
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Development Exam with accurate detailed solutions || || || || ||
Growth - ✔✔increase of physical size
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Development - ✔✔progressive acquisation of skills and the capasity to function
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Maturation - ✔✔skills and potential that are independent of practice emerge - full
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development of a skill || || ||
Cephalocaudal - ✔✔growth and development beginning at the head of an individual and
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progressing towards the feed || || ||
Proximodistal - ✔✔growth and development from the contre of the body towards the
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extermities
Assumptions - ✔✔gd occurs in an orderly pattern (holding head before sitting), continuous
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process of growth spurts and slow/steady growth (fast as child, slow as adolecent), rates are
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different per individual, affect all body systems, total process to affect a person mentally,
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physically and socially || ||
Sigmund Freud - ✔✔Psychoanalysis
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Sigmund Freud: Conscious - ✔✔experience within our immediate awareness, based on
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reality and logic
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Sigmund Freud: Preconscious/Subconscious - ✔✔memories, feelings and thoughts that are
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easily accessible ||
Sigmund Freud: Unconscious - ✔✔painful memories closed off to prevent anxiety and
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stress
Id - ✔✔selfish instinct to please their immediate wants and needs (main reason for most
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human behaviour) ||
Ego - ✔✔"executive of the mind" close connection to realtiy to delay satifaction
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Superego - ✔✔development of ego to control, punish and dictate right from wrong
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Freud: Defense Mechanism - ✔✔Helps to cope with anxiety, overuse inhibits personal
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growth and satisfaction || ||
Suppression - ✔✔Conscious Level to not focus on stressing factors
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Rationalization - ✔✔Used by all ages to justify or excuse undesirable actions or feelings
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Identification - ✔✔children use to identify sexual roles, take on personality traits of other
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person held in high esteem || || || ||
Sublimation - ✔✔positive where individual channels unacceptable impulses into socially
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acceptable outlets ||
Regression - ✔✔individuals facing conflict return to an earlier, more developmentally
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secure stage ||
HOSA 2026 - Human Growth and Development Theories of
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Development Exam with accurate detailed solutions || || || || ||
Growth - ✔✔increase of physical size
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Development - ✔✔progressive acquisation of skills and the capasity to function
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Maturation - ✔✔skills and potential that are independent of practice emerge - full
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development of a skill || || ||
Cephalocaudal - ✔✔growth and development beginning at the head of an individual and
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progressing towards the feed || || ||
Proximodistal - ✔✔growth and development from the contre of the body towards the
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extermities
Assumptions - ✔✔gd occurs in an orderly pattern (holding head before sitting), continuous
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process of growth spurts and slow/steady growth (fast as child, slow as adolecent), rates are
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different per individual, affect all body systems, total process to affect a person mentally,
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physically and socially || ||
Sigmund Freud - ✔✔Psychoanalysis
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Sigmund Freud: Conscious - ✔✔experience within our immediate awareness, based on
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reality and logic
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Sigmund Freud: Preconscious/Subconscious - ✔✔memories, feelings and thoughts that are
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easily accessible ||
Sigmund Freud: Unconscious - ✔✔painful memories closed off to prevent anxiety and
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stress
Id - ✔✔selfish instinct to please their immediate wants and needs (main reason for most
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human behaviour) ||
Ego - ✔✔"executive of the mind" close connection to realtiy to delay satifaction
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Superego - ✔✔development of ego to control, punish and dictate right from wrong
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Freud: Defense Mechanism - ✔✔Helps to cope with anxiety, overuse inhibits personal
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growth and satisfaction || ||
Suppression - ✔✔Conscious Level to not focus on stressing factors
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Rationalization - ✔✔Used by all ages to justify or excuse undesirable actions or feelings
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Identification - ✔✔children use to identify sexual roles, take on personality traits of other
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person held in high esteem || || || ||
Sublimation - ✔✔positive where individual channels unacceptable impulses into socially
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acceptable outlets ||
Regression - ✔✔individuals facing conflict return to an earlier, more developmentally
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secure stage ||
