CH 7 Flashcards
What are the individual differences in height and weight?
Average differences in height and weight btw boys and girls increase during the preschool years. Economic development is also a factor where better nutrition and health care is important in the growth of children.
What are the changes in body shape and structure during the development of a child?
During preschool years, the children burn off the fat that they were born with and they become more slender. Muscle size increases, bones become sturdier, and sense organs develop.
What should be done to prevent chaos during mealtimes with children?
Making sure that there a variety of food options available that is low in fat and high in nutrition, especially iron rich food.
What is the just-right phenomenon?
Some preschool children develop strong rituals and routines about the kinds of foods they will eat.
What are the unexpected benefits of a cold or flu for a child?
It could build up their immune system to fight off more severe diseases in the future. It could help them understand their bodies better. It could help them learn coping skills that will help them deal more effectively with future diseases. It gives them the perspective of what others are going through when they are sick.
What could be a potential reason why the use of depressants have increased among preschool children?
Potentially due to parents and other caregivers seeking a quick for behavioral problems that could be normal or typical difficulties.
Precautions to be taken in order to prevent a child from getting sick?
~Consuming a well-balanced diet that contains the proper nutrients and proteins. 2 years- 1300 cal/day. 4-6- 1700 cal/day.
~Encouraged to exercise.
~Given as much sleep as they want.
~Avoiding contact with other sick people.
~Given the appropriate immunizations.
Before age 10, child have twice the likelihood of dying from what than an illness?
Injury.
What could be the reasons for death from injuries for children?
~Physical activity where children overestimate their capability to using swings and climbing things.
~Some children are more of a risk-taker than others are which could have a higher rate of injuries.
~Children from poverty conditions also tend to live in neighborhoods that are more hazardous.
~Poisonous household cleaners.
What is the most severe health threat to children younger than the age of 6?
Lead poisoning.
What are the damages from lead posioning?
Linked to higher levels of antisocial behavior, including aggression and delinquency. Also results in illness and death.
Where can lead come from?
More poverty stricken neighborhoods with lead in their paint or heavily trafficked urban areas with high levels of air pollution.
Why does a child’s brain grow so rapidly?
Bc of an increase in the number of interconnections among cells. These interconnections allow for more complex communication btw neurons and they permit the rapid growth of cognitive skills.
What does the increase in myelin do?
Myelin is the protective insulation that surrounds parts of neurons. And the increase of that would speed the transmission of electrical impulses alng brain cells but also adds to brain weight.
Lateralization?
The process by which certain cognitive functions are located more in one hemisphere than the other, becomes more pronounced during the preschool years.
