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WGU D202 HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVE
ASSESSMENT EXAM LATEST 2024-2025 ALL 300 QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS ALREADY GRADED A+
Q: What is NBAS? - ANSWER-Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale used to assess newborns.
Q: When does the postpartum phase begin and end? - ANSWER-Begins after birth and ends when mother's body returns to pre-pregnancy form.
Q: What are maternal worries in the postpartum phase? - ANSWER-Mother's needs and changes in taking on new responsibilities.
Q: What is postpartum anxiety? - ANSWER-Elevated sense of worry about the infant following childbirth.
Q: What is postpartum depression? - ANSWER-Unusual sadness occurring after childbirth.
Q: What is postpartum psychosis? - ANSWER-Serious mental illness affecting new mothers after childbirth.
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2 Q: Why should new mothers seek medical assistance for postpartum anxiety? - ANSWER-To address elevated worries about the infant.
Q: What is physical growth? - ANSWER-Increase in body size and organ size in babies.
Q: What does physical development aid in? - ANSWER-Maintenance of healthy weight, strong bones, muscles, and heart.What is the embryonic period? - ANSWER-Weeks 3-8 of pregnancy, formation of placenta and brain development
Q: What is the fetal period? - ANSWER-From the end of the embryonic period until the end of pregnancy, viability at 24 weeks
Q: What influences sexual orientation? - ANSWER-Genetics, birth order, hormones
Q: What are some maternal factors that can affect fetal development? - ANSWER-Age, environmental teratogens, diabetes, high blood pressure, Rh factor, weight gain, stress, depression
Q: What are some risks during pregnancy? - ANSWER-Ectopic pregnancy, preeclampsia, spontaneous abortion 2 / 4
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Q: How many stages are there in labor for vaginal delivery? - ANSWER-Three
Q: What are the other types of delivery? - ANSWER-Cesarean and induced
Q: What is the APGAR score? - ANSWER-Assessment of newborn's heart rate, muscle tone, reflexes, etc.
Q: What is motor development? - ANSWER-Physical growth and strengthening of bones and muscles in children.
Q: What do gross motor skills focus on? - ANSWER-Large muscle groups controlling head, torso, arms, and legs.
Q: What is the cephalocaudal path of development? - ANSWER-Development that proceeds from head to tail.
Q: What is the proximodistal path of development? - ANSWER-Development that proceeds from midline outward. 3 / 4
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Q: What is sensory development? - ANSWER-Processes used to take in information from the environment.
Q: How can sensory processes be affected? - ANSWER-By the infant's developing motor abilities.
Q: Why is nutrition important for health and development? - ANSWER-It is related to improved infant, child, and maternal health and stronger immune systems.
Q: What is kwashiorkor? - ANSWER-A disease caused by protein deficiency.
Q: When does kwashiorkor often occur? - ANSWER-After the birth of another sibling.
Q: What are genes? - ANSWER-Inherited building blocks that determine development.
Q: What is mitosis? - ANSWER-Nucleus makes copy of chromosomes and splits into two cells.
Q: What happens in meiosis? - ANSWER-Chromosomes duplicate and divide twice, resulting in four cells.
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