CLD 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Conduct Disorder, School Refusal, Hand Washing

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Early Childhood Studies
• Course: CLD 103
• Professor: Rachel Caplan

Document Summary

Cld103 week 4: physical development & health in middle childhood. Tooth development & dental care: primary teeth begin to fall out at about age 6, replaced by permanent teeth at a rate of about 4 teeth per year for the next 5 years. Improvements cut across ethnic and socioeconomic lines: untreated oral disease may lead to problems in eating, speaking, and sleeping. In middle childhood, there are significant changes in brain structure and function: axon: transmits signals, myelin sheaths: faster transmission, protective sheath, axon terminals send neural transmitters to the dendrites (synapse, gray and white matter. With respect to sleep, most children ________: get adequate sleep, get less sleep than they need, get more sleep than they need, get less sleep than they need on weekdays and adequate amounts on weekends. Which of the following children is most likely to be overweight: a european-canadian girl, an asian-canadian boy, an aboriginal-canadian boy, an african-canadian girl.