Class 1 - Stages of Development

Question 1

What are the 3 known stages of growth?

Answer 1

• physical growth
• differentiation
• maturation

Question 2

Physical growth is quantifiable. What does that mean?

Answer 2

• An increase in cell size and number results in increase in size and weight
  ie. weighing a baby - percentile; objective and quantifiable, but limitations of the percentile we sue

Question 3

How does culture play a part in physical growth? (3)

Answer 3

ethnic backgrounds
- where did they find the “expected growth” from, and where are they basing it from
- right from the beginning, there can be abnormal growth when they are normal

Question 4

What is differentiation? (2)

Answer 4

• Universal human species cell specialization
• process where initial forms of cells and structures become specialized

Question 5

What does differentiation result in?

Answer 5

• changes in structure and function

Question 6

What is maturation?

Answer 6

• acquisition of adult-like behaviours, characteristics, and features

Question 7

What is the goal of maturation?

Answer 7

optimal function (fully developed and optimal way)

Question 8

What does maturation allow for? (2)

Answer 8

• increase in adaptability and competence
• gets better as we get older, experiences influence you

Question 9

In indigenous culture, what is the human life cycle symbolized by? (3)

Answer 9

• medicine wheel
• equal sized sections
• All aspects of human development are viewed as being in harmony with the cycle of life in nature

Question 10

In relation to concept-scope-attributes, how do nurses care for development + scope of development? (3)

Answer 10

Concept (development)
- affects all aspects of individuals and thus directs our nursing care

Scope of Concept
- the extent to which development impacts an individual

Attributes applied to concept
- qualities, characteristics, and features

Question 11

What are the characteristics of the scope of development? (2)

Answer 11

• organized, progressive, and predictable
• individuals vary in the time of onset for each stage, and the length of time spent in each stage

Question 12

What happens if milestones are not met? (2)

Answer 12

• something may be occurring
• individual variation, development as a pendulum (in same amount lf time)

Question 13

List the stages of development, starting from embryologic all the way to older adult

Answer 13