Learning Aim A

Question 1

What is growth

Answer 1

An increase in a measurable quantity such as weight, height or head circumference

Question 2

What is development

Answer 2

Complex changes that can’t be measured but instead observed including an increase in skills, knowledge and abilities

Question 3

What are centile lines

Answer 3

Lines on a graph used to show average measurements of a child’s height, weight and head circumference

Question 4

Age of infancy

Answer 4

0-2 years

Question 5

Age of early childhood

Answer 5

3-8 years

Question 6

Age of adolescence

Answer 6

9-18 years

Question 7

Age of early adulthood

Answer 7

19-45 years

Question 8

Age of middle adulthood

Answer 8

45–65

Question 9

Age of later adulthood

Answer 9

65+

Question 10

Key features of infancy

Answer 10

• Growing rapidly
• around the age of 1 they will start learning to walk and by age of 2 they can run

Question 11

Key features of early childhood

Answer 11

Children are still progressing and developing though all aspects of their development

Question 12

Key features of Adolescence

Answer 12

• Start experiencing growth spurts as puberty begins
• puberty also starts making physical changes like sexual characteristics

Question 13

Key features of early adulthood

Answer 13

• Reach peak physical fitness
• women’s body may start preparing for pregnancy
• perimenopause starts
• increase in hormones oestrogen and progresterone
• menopause starts where a woman hasn’t had a period for 12 months

Question 14

Key features of middle adulthood

Answer 14

• ageing process begins with a loss for things like strength or stamina
• physical cahnges may also start to take place e.g. grey hair

Question 15

Key features of later adulthood

Answer 15

Ageing process continues to take place and health may deteriorate