Chapter 6 Physical Development

Question 1

Pervasive impairment in social communication and interaction and by restricted or repetitive behaviors, interest, or activities. Severity is classified by how much support the individual needs to function effectively.

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Autism Spectrum Disorder

Question 2

An infection caused by microorganism that us transmitted by direct sexual contact.

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Sexual Transmitted Infection (STI)

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Being 20% or more over an individuals ideal weight

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Obesity

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Physical characteristics directly involved in reproduction

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Primary Sex Characteristics

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Patterned, involuntary motor responses that are controlled by the lower brain centers

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Reflexes

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The neurons and synapses that make up the brain

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Grey Matter

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The place where the axon from one neuron meets the dendrite from another neuron.

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Synapse

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The period of rapid increase in height and weigh that occurs in early adolescences

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Adolescent growth spurt

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A condition in which individual becomes obsessed with their weight and intentionally where is can become life threatening

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Anorexia Nervosa

Question 10

The deterioration and disappearance of synapses that are not used

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Pruning

Question 11

A chronic Condition that appears early in development and primarily involved problems with body movement and muscle coordination

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Cerbral Palsy

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The process of laying down a fatty sheath of myelin on the neurons.

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Myelination

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The cells that make up the nervous system of the body

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Neurons

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A pathology that can result from a sexually transmitted infection

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Sexually transmitted disease (STD)

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Physical characteristics associated with gender that do not directly affect sex origins. 6

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Secondary Sex Characteristics

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Eating disorder by binge eating followed by purging to get rid of the food

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Bullimia Nervosa

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Food is often scarce or unavailable causing people to overeat when they do have access to food.

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Food insecurity

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The physical Changes that occur in adolescence and make an individual capable of sexual reproduction

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Puberty

Question 19

A psychotic disorder marked by disorganizes thinking, hallucinations and delusions

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Schizophrenia

Question 20

The ability to see things in sharp detail

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Visual Acuity

Question 21

Skills that involve the small movements mostly of the hands and fingers but also of the lips and tongue

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Fine Motor Skills

Question 22

A deficiency of calories or of one or more essential nutrients

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Undernutrition

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The portions of a neuron that receive impulses from other neurons

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Dendrites

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The two halves of the brain

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Hemispheres

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The myelincoated axons that connect neurons in the brain

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White Matter

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Skills involvong the large muscle groups of the body, legs and arms

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Gross Motor Skills

Question 27

The period before puberty when normal changes begin

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Prepubescence

Question 28

A condition which pubertal changes begin at and extraordinarily early age ( 6 or 7 years of age)

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Precocious Puberty

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Development that occurs in response to specific learning experiences

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Experience- dependent brain development

Question 30

Thick, yellowish substance filled with antibodies and nutrients that is produced from a womans breast after she gives birth before milk is produced.

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Colostrum

Question 31

The sense of knowing where the parts of ones body are located in space without the need to look at them

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Proprioception

Question 32

The development of new synapses

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Synaptogensis

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The ability of an immature brain to change in form and function

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Plasticity

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Development that occurs when we encounter experiences that our brain expects as a normal event

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Experience- expectant brain development

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The beginning of production of viable sperm

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Spermarche

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A girls first menstrual period

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Menarche

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Chemicals that transmit nerve impulses across a synapse from one cell to another

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Neurotransmitters

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The parts of a nerve cell that conduct impulses away from the cell body

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Axons

Question 39

Development that proceeds from central axis of the body toward the extremities

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Proximodistal

Question 40

A condition in which delays in reaching motor milestone interfere with daily living or academic performance

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Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD)

Question 41

The bond of fibers that connects the two hemispheres of the brain

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Corpus Collosum