PSYC 2400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Frontal Lobe, Deciduous Teeth
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Chapter 12: physical development and health in middle childhood. Sleep patterns and problems: sleep needs decline as age increases, sleep problems, resistance to going to bed. Insomnia: daytime sleepiness, causes of sleep problems, children are allowed to set their bedtime, children have tv in their bedrooms, sleep-disorder breathing, linked to behavioral and learning difficulties. Indicated by persistent snoring: obstructive sleep apnea, associated with significant deficits in. Health benefits of regular physical activity: long-term benefits. Improves motor skills: weight control, lower blood pressure. Improved cardiorespiratory functioning: enhances self-esteem and well-being. Causes of overweight: heredity, aggravated by little exercise and too much or the wrong kinds of food, poor nutrition, media advertising, wide availability of snack foods and beverages, eating out, physical inactivity and sedentary behaviors. Treatment of overweight children: treatment should, begin early. Medical conditions: acute medical conditions, occasional, short-term illnesses, chronic medical conditions, long-lasting or recurrent conditions requiring special health services, physical, developmental, behavioral, emotional.
