A - Growth and Development through the life stages Flashcards
What are the 4 aspects of growth and development?
Physical
Intellectual
Emotional
Social
What are the 6 life stages?
Infancy Early Childhood Adolescence Early Adulthood Middle Adulthood Later Adulthood
What age is Infancy?
0-2 years
What age is Early Childhood?
3-8 years
What age is adolesence?
9-18
What age is early adulthood?
19-45
What age is middle adulthood
45-65
What age is later adulthood
65+
What is growth?
How different parts of our body change e.g height, weight
What is development?
A sequence of how we learn skills and abilities e.g reading and writing
What is a gross motor skill?
Skills that use large muscle groups such as walking, running, throwing
What is a fine motor skill?
Skills that use small finite movements with our hands e.g doing up a button
What are primary sexual characteristics?
Those present at birth and develop during puberty
Give examples of female primary sexual characteristics
Uterus - which enlarges
Vagina - lengthens
Ovaries - begin to release eggs
Give examples of male primary sexual characteristics
Penis - enlarges and gets erections
Testicles - begin to produce sperm
Give examples of female secondary sexual characteristics
Breast development
Hair grows under the arms and pubic area
Body fat is redistributed to cause wider hips
Give examples of male secondary sexual characteristics
Changes in larynx causing voice to deepen
Hair grows in armpits, face and pubic area
Redistribution of muscle tissue and fat
Name the female sex hormones
Oestrogen and progesterone
Name the male sex hormone
Testosterone
At what age (and life stage) do you reach physical maturity
19-28 years
During early adulthood
At which life stage are women most likely to be in perimenopause
End of Early into middle adulthood
What is perimenopause?
When oestrogen levels decrease, causing ovaries to stop producing an egg each month
What is menopause?
When you no longer produce any eggs and completely stop having periods
In Which life stage do women usually go through menopause?
Middle adulthood