KINE 2P84 Final Exam Flashcards
What is status?
Physical size, maturation, performance levels
What is progress?
Rate of development: Height, weight, etc.
What are some common research challenges in children and youth?
Ethical, variability, methodological issues, generalizability
Describe a cross-sectional study design.
Comparison of 2+ groups at one point in time. Efficient and quick to complete. Cannot detect changes over time.
Describe a longitudinal study design.
A study over a period of time. Costly. Changes over time/growth can be detected.
What are examples of “plastic processes” and what do they lead to?
Nutrition, childhood disease, physical activity, environmental stress all interact with genes for biological variation.
What are the 3 major ideas of the course that can intertwine with each other?
Growth, Maturation and Development
What is development?
The progressions and regressions that occur throughout the lifespan. Can be separated into biological and behavioural.
What is growth?
The structural aspect of development. Hyperplasia = increase in number of cells. Hypertrophy = increase in cell size. Accretion = increase in intercellular substance
What is maturation?
The functional changes in human development. Highly related to growth. Focuses on progress or rate of attaining mature state.
What are the time periods of development?
Prenatal, infancy, childhood, adolescence and adulthood
Is hyperplasia or hypertrophy more common early on in growth?
Hyperplasia is more common early on in growth while hypertrophy increases later on.
What is a distance curve?
Change in height over age
What is a velocity curve?
Change in RATE of change in height over age
What is difference between maturation and maturity? Timing vs tempo?
Maturation = process. Maturity = status. Timing is the age of occurrence of event. Tempo is the rate of change over time. Maturation cannot be measured directly.
What is chronological, biological and maturational age?
Chronological age = in calendar years and months. Biological age = growth/observable and measurable. Maturational age = unobservable and inferred (sexual maturity)
True/False: Chronological age is not the same as biological age.
True
What are the 3 prenatal stages?
Egg, embryo and fetus
Explain the egg stage of prenatal development.
it is the first 2 weeks and cell division/differentiation happens.
Explain the embryo stage of prenatal development.
Weeks 2 through 8 and increase in cell number + differentiation occur.
Explain the fetus stage of prenatal development.
Weeks 9 through 40 and Increase in cell size and mass occurs.
What are prenatal changes in body proportions?
At 9 weeks, the head is roughly 50% of the body and at week 38, it is 25% of the body. Fetal growth is not linear.
List a few of the main fetal activities and when they begin.
Heart: 4 weeks; Trunk, arms and legs: 6-9 weeks; Reflexes: 36 weeks
True/False: Birth weight is an indicator of health. Low birth weight is associated with impaired immune function and increased risk of disease.
True
What are the 3 main factors that can affect a babies birth weight from the parent?
Nutrition, smoking and alcohol
What are the physical activity recommendations during pregnancy?
150 minutes of MVPA per week over 3 days
Are distance curves standards or norms?
No
If a girl is in the 10th percentile for height, how does she compare to other girls her age?
She is shorter than 90% of girls her age and taller than 10% of girls her age.
Is there more variability on the growth charts in height or weight?
Weight has more variability
Why do we use percentile charts?
Evaluation of growth on an individual child or sample of children
What is an early maturer and a late maturer?
Early maturers progress earlier on in development while late maturers will be below average for most of the time on growth charts.
Why are men taller than women?
Girls have growth spurt sooner but their rate of growth is less (accumulating less cm per year) and boys grow for longer period of time than girls.
What is “scaling” for body size?
adjusting physiological variables for body size
What is physique?
Body form/body build
What is somatotyping?
Classification of physique (short and stocky, tall and slender). Sheldon’s Classification is Endomorphy (muscular) to Mesomorphy (chubby) to Ectomorphy (skinny).
What is bone tissue made up of?
Collagen, minerals, cells (calcium and phosphate)
What is an osteoblast?
Bone formation
What is an osteoclast?
Bone resorption (eat away at bone)
What is an osteocyte?
regulation of flow of minerals and nutrients (signals whether osteoblasts or osteoclasts should kick in)
Resorption, Reversal, Formation, Resting: How long does this process take to complete?
3 months
Where are long bones and flats bones located?
Long bones are arms, legs, etc. Flat bones are the skull.
What is growth + remodelling rate of bones in infancy compared to adulthood?
50% annually in infancy and 5% annually in adulthood.
What is the status of osteoblasts and osteoclasts in youth, adult and old age? What ailment does this lead to in old age?
Youth: Formation is greater than resorption. Adult: Equal. Old age: Resorption is greater than formation and this leads to osteoporosis.
How can you prevent osteoporosis?
Exercise, Nutrition and Pharmaceuticals (slow down the rate)
How to increase peak bone mass at a young age?
good nutrition and exercise will help increase peak bone mass. “Put bone in the bank” during childhood and adolescence (critical period) is very important.
What is intramembraneous bone formation?
between embryonic membranes (skull)
What is endochondral bone formation?
replacement of cartilage (long bones)
What is longitudinal growth called?
epiphysis
What is width/thickness growth called?
appositional