Health and Social Care; Pearson BTEC National
Growth - Answer-An increase in some measured quantity, such as height or weight.
Development - Answer-Complex changes including an increase in skills, abilities and capabilities.
Life Stages - Answer-Infancy - 0-2
Early Childhood - 3-8
Adoles...
Health and Social Care; Pearson BTEC
National
Growth - Answer-An increase in some measured quantity, such as height or weight.
Development - Answer-Complex changes including an increase in skills, abilities and
capabilities.
Life Stages - Answer-Infancy - 0-2
Early Childhood - 3-8
Adolescence - 9-18
Early Adulthood - 19-45
Middle Adulthood - 46-65
Later Adulthood - 65+
3 Facts About Infant Growth Rate - Answer-1. Infants grow rapidly during the first six months of
their lives
2. By age 2, a healthy infant will be approx. half their adult height.
3. Healthy new-born babies double their birth weight by four to five months.
The 4 types of development - Answer-Physical
Social
Emotional
Intellectual
Gross Motor Skills - Answer-Large movements that involve using the large muscles of the body
which are required for mobility, for example rolling over.
Fine Motor Skills - Answer-Involve smaller movements that require more precise direction and
use smaller muscles, for example picking up a pencil.
centile Lines - Answer-Lines on a graph used to show average measurements of height, weight
and head circumference. The lines represent the values of the measurements taking into
account age and sex.
Milestone - Answer-An ability achieved by most children by a certain age. It can involve
physical, social, emotional, cognitive and communication skills - e.g. walking, sharing and
expressing emotion.
Developmental norms - Answer-A description of an average set of expectations with respect to
a young child's development. For example, by the age of 12 months a child has the ability to
stand alone.
Physical Development - 6 Things that happen to a child during infancy - Answer-1. Stand up
2. Jumping
, 3. crawling
4. Running
5. Turning Head
6. Kicking
Examples of Gross Motor Skills in infancy - Answer-Turning head, kicking sitting up, crawling,
standing up, walking and jumping.
Examples of fine motor skills in infancy - Answer-Grasping using 'pincer' grip, taking off shoes,
eating using a spoon and scribbling circular shapes.
Growth in childhood - Answer-Children continue to grow at a steady rate during childhood, but
at a slower rate than in infancy, with boys usually being slightly taller than girls. Throughout this
period the proportions of the child's body change.
Development in childhood - Answer-Children develop immensely through play. This teaches
them to solve problems, develop memory, become sociable, etc.
Skills developed during childhood - Answer-Gross - Riding a bike, skipping and catching a ball.
Fine - Go on a computer, doing up buttons, using a knife and fork, using tweezers and paydo.
Adolescence - Answer-An important status change following the onset of puberty during which a
young person develops from a child into an adult.
Puberty - Answer-A period when secondary sexual characteristics develop and individuals
become capable of sexual reproduction.
Sexual Characteristics - Answer-Things that make someone male or female, as well as some
sexual traits that arise during puberty, such as body hair.
Primary sexual characteristics - Answer-sexual characteristics which have been there since
birth.
Secondary sexual characteristics - Answer-those which develop or change during puberty.
Examples of Male PSC and SSC - Answer-Primary = Enlargement of the testes and penis,
spontaneous erections and testes begin to produce sperm.
Secondary = changes in larynx causing deeper voice, hair grows in armpits and pubic are, facial
hair and redistribution of muscle tissue and fat.
Examples of Female PSC and SSC. - Answer-Primary = The uterus enlarges and vagina
lengthens, ovaries begin to release eggs and Menstration cycle commences.
Secondary = Breasts develop, hair grows in armpits and pubic area and redistribution of body
fat causing hips to widen.
Puberty - Answer-A period of rapid growth during which young people reach sexual maturity,
and become biologically able to reproduce and secondary sexual characteristics develop.
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