First booklet...good luck! Flashcards
Birth and Infancy age range and key features?
0-2 and infants grow rapidly reaching approximately half their adult height by the age of 2 years old. At around 1 year old they can walk and by the age of 2 years they can run.
Early childhood age range and key features?
3-8 children continue to grow at a steady pace, they continue to develop coordination and strength.
Adolescence age range and key features?
9-18 adolescence experience growth spurts. they develop sexual characteristics during puberty
Early adulthood age range and key features?
19-45 young adults react the peak of their physical fitness.
Middle adulthood age range and key features?
45-65 the ageing process begins with some loss of strength and stamina. women start menopause
Later adulthood age range and key features?
65+ the ageing process continues with a gradual loss in mobility, older adults will experience a loss of height of up too a few centimetres
human growth?
growth is an increase in a measureable quantity, such as height or weigh or other dimensions
human development
development is about the complex changes in skills and capabilities that an individual experience as they grow.
maturation?
completely different to growth and development, it is genetically controlled changes influencing development, eg puberty
developmental norms
milestones, expectations of development
delayed development
when a baby or a child does not develop within an expected time range
holistic development
development as a whole/ PIES
life stages
infancy 0-2 early childhood 3-8 adolescence 9-18 early adulthood 19-45 middle adulthood 46-65 later adulthood 65+
life courses?
different life carers are for different people, everything is unique to a humans life
everyone has had a different experience.
define life span
there life between birth and death and it will be different for everyone