NSG 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Fine Motor Skill, Visual Acuity, Thelarche
6 Sep 2018
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Proximal distal progression in gross and fine motor skill. Slow steady growth similar to preschooler until puberty. Ossification is the thickening and hardening of the bones. Growth plate: the end of long bones that give the bone the ability to grow in length. Often an area of fracture because it is softer. Brain achieves 90-95% of adult size by age 8. Pre-pubertal changes exist: breast bud development, fine public hair, apocrine odor, girls are generally taller and bigger than boys. Pubertal changes as early as 9 for females and 11 for males. Enuresis - bed wetting that can persist to adolescence. Strong family tie for bedwetters, often a hit on a child"s self esteem. Children are better able to monitor their own thinking, memory, knowledge, goals, and actions - metacognition. Metacognition begins at about age 6 and emerges more fully between the ages of 7 and 10. Conservation of mass and number - spatial arrays.
