Lifespan: CH 7 Pt 1: Physical and Cognitive in Early childhood

Physical development: Body _________; develops more like adult like

slows

Physical development: Big ____________ between male and females

difference

Physical development: _________________ improves and gains support to motor coordination

Posture and balance

Physical development: Skeletal growth- bones in wrist and feet _____________

fully develop

Physical development: Skeletal growth- Bone density __________ and lose baby teeth

increases

Thinking, learning, understanding capacities ___________

increases

This part of the brain goes through rapid growth, especially in executive functions (planning, focus, remembering, controlling behavior)?

Prefrontal cortical areas

This part of the brain is active, supporting language skills and handedness?

L hemisphere

Activity in this part of the brain increases, and spatial skills (the ability to understand and work with space, shapes, and positions) develop gradually through adolescence?

R hemisphere

Right-handed: _________ housed in L hemsiphere

language

Left handed: Often shared by ____________________

both hemispheres

Handedness influences: ________________ for right-handedness

genetic bias

Handedness influences: Practice at doing ____________________ that work together

multiple mental processes

Handedness influences: The way they teach in ________

school

Widespread _____________, helps decrease childhood diseases

immunizations

Enough people is vaccinated/immune to a disease which makes it less likely to spread if one person got sick?

Herd immunity

What is the percentage we need of vaccination rate to achieve herd immunity?

95%

People might not get vaccinated due to what?

Cultural/religious differences

Lack of access to healthcare, social media theories, advocating by anti-vaccination groups, mixed messages from government health agencies?

Immunization declines in US

Walking, jumping, running, catching + greater speed and endurance?

Gross-motor skills

Gross-motor skills- Balance _______

improves

Gross-motor skills- Walking becomes ______________________-

smooth and rhythmic

Self help = dressing and eating, etc + drawing and writing?

Fine-motor skills

Motor skills: Boys- excel in skills using ____________________

force and power

Motor skills: Girls- excel in skills using ________________________

balance and agility

Gross-motor skills are develop through _____

play

Fine-motor skills develop through ____________

daily routine

For motor skills, children need ________________________

adult encouragement