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- Growth from the top down
- Applies to motor development
Ex: can control eyes before arms |
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| - Growth occurs from the center outward |
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| Average Newborn (height and weight) |
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- 20 inches long
- 7 1/2 lbs. |
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| Infant weight gain and growth |
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- first few days lose 5-7% of body weight
- first month gain 5-6 oz/week
- first year grow 1 in. per month 7 weight triples
- second birthday weight quadruples & height doubles |
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- grows out of ectoderm
- development occurs through adolescence |
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- birth is 25% of adult weight
- 2 years is 75% of adult weight |
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- folded surface covering forebrain
- 2 hemispheres & four lobes |
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| - voluntary movement, thinking, personality |
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| - hearing, language, memory |
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| - spatial location, attention, motor control. |
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| carry signals away from the cell body |
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| carry signals toward the cell body |
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| layer of fat cells that insulate axons (help electrical signals travel faster) |
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| release chemicals (neurotransmitters into synapses) |
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| tiny gaps between neurons |
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- increase speed of transmission
- connectivity btwn neurons increase (new dendrites grow, connections btwn dendrites increase, synaptic connections increase) |
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- brain swelling, pressure, hemorrhaging from brain trauma.
- child abuse, ROUGH play
- symptoms: irritability, lethargy, pale skin, vomiting, seizures, poor eating, apnea) |
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| obesity maternal influences |
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| - neural tube defects, infertility, labor and delivery complications, fetal and neonatal death, hypertension, preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, large for gestational age infants |
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