growth and development Flashcards
what does growth indicated
Change most often associated with increase
what does Development mean
New capabilities, bigger and better, with possibility of some cost
-complexity and decrease in potentiality
what is a growth pattern
a complex set of proportional relationships, with some growth being larger and smaller than others
what type of pattern is pattern in growth
A higher level patter, with predicable changes
what is a pattern
changes in proportion over the course of time
what is the cephalocaudal pattern of growth
craniofacial structures grow earlier and structures away from head grow more to chatch up
how does the skull grow
more growth in the face than in the cranium. Cranium grows faster than face first then slows as the face speeds up
parts of the face that grow farther from the cranium grow the slowest
what part of the face grows the most postnataly
The mandibule
what does it mean when doing data and points do not cluster such like a bell shaped curve
Not a normal distribution
what is 1 std dev
67% of the population
what is 2 std dev
95% of the population
what is 3 std dev
99% of the population
what does a median value correspond to
2nd quartil
what is the inter-quartile range
Measure of variation reported with the median value
how are growth chars expressed
In percentile, comparing height and weight to peers over time
organization of growth charts
line is percentile
x is time
y is height/weight
what is the percentile for normal kids
3rd and 97th percentile
how does growth charts show abnormalties
crossing over in percentiles over the ages
when are differences in timing of growth most apparent
Near adolscence
what causes adolescent growth spurt
SExual maturation
when do boys and girls have te growth spurt
girls two years before boys
why might a person cross percentiles in growth, but not be a problem
if a person matures unusually late or early, they’ll cross percentiles