Week 9 - Infancy and Childhood

Question 1

Hyperplasia

Answer 1

Proliferation of cells in the body

Question 2

Hypertrophy

Answer 2

Increase in cell size

Question 3

Maturation

Answer 3

The process of becoming mature or the process towards a mature biological state

Question 4

Where does maturation occur within the body?

Answer 4

All organs and their systems and tissues

Question 5

2 contexts for development….biological and ____________

Answer 5

Biological and behavioural

Question 6

Biological development

Answer 6

The development of stem cells into functioning cells and systems

Question 7

Four components of behavioral development

Answer 7

Motor/skill acquisition, socially acceptable behaviours, intellectual, emotional

Question 8

Chronological age

Answer 8

How many years old you are

Question 9

Biological age

Answer 9

Biological age is how old a person seems that takes into account lifestyle, diet, exercise, sleeping habits etc.

Question 10

Prenatal

Answer 10

period of growth and development prior to birth (~9 months)

Question 11

Germinal Period

Answer 11

fertilization to end of germ layer formation (weeks 1 – 2 of
development)

Question 12

Embryonic Period

Answer 12

days 14-56 (weeks 3-8) after fertilization

Question 13

Foetal Period

Answer 13

56 days to birth (last 30 weeks)

Question 14

Postnatal

Answer 14

period after birth

Question 15

Infancy

Answer 15

first year of birth (0-1 year)

Question 16

Perinatal

Answer 16

the first week

Question 17

Neonatal

Answer 17

the first month

Question 18

Postnatal

Answer 18

the remainder of the first year

Question 19

Childhood

Answer 19

1 year – adolescence

Question 20

Early childhood

Answer 20

1-4 years

Question 21

Middle childhood

Answer 21

5 years to adolescence

Question 22

Adolescence

Answer 22

~10-18 years

Question 23

Onset and termination of adolescence is highly variable in men and women, what years are they for both?

Answer 23

Males 10-22 years
Females 8-19 years

Question 24

Age groups for young adult, middle age, older adult

Answer 24

20-40 years, 40-65 years, 65 years to death respectively.

Question 25

Three generations after 65

Answer 25

65-65, 67-85, 85+

Question 26

What type of growth occurs at infancy and early childhood

Answer 26

Rapid growth

Question 27

What type of growth occurs at middle childhood

Answer 27

Steady process of growth

Question 28

Which stage and day of embryonic development

Answer 28

Morula 16 cell formation with zona pellucida layer - Day 4

Question 29

Which stage and day of embryonic development

Answer 29

Early blastocyst - Day 6

Question 30

Which stage and day of embryonic development

Answer 30

Late blastocyst - Day 10

Question 31

Which stage and day of embryonic development

Answer 31

Gastrula - Day 16

Question 32

Three layers are formed at the Gastrula stage of embryonic development, what are they?

Answer 32

Ectoderm, Mesoderm, Endoderm

Question 33

Define embryonic folding

Answer 33

When the embryo starts to form shape into a feotus

Question 34

Dermatomes

Answer 34

The dermatome is an area of skin supplied by nerves from a single spinal root, each spinal nerve innervates a particular known area of skin

Question 35

Myotome

Answer 35

A group of muscles that a single nerve innervates