CLD 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Fine Motor Skill, Gross Motor Skill, Night Terror
20 Jan 2017
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When talking about physical growth were talking about the physical size of a child. Children grow rapidly between ages 3 and 6. Muscular and skeletal growth progresses, making children stronger. Increased capacities of the respiratory and circulatory systems. Brain and myelination of pathways for hearing is almost complete around age 3. Frontal areas that regulate planning and organizing actions grow rapidly. Associative thinking, language, and spatial relations grow rapidly. Helps us with decision making, emotional response, attention and behaviour and judgement. Gives human beings much of their knowledge. Allows humans to apply memories to new situations. Prefrontal cortex is still developing through adolescence until late 20"s. Has a lot to do with personalities. The density of synapses in the prefrontal cortex peaks at age 4 significant changes occur during this time due to this peak. Progressive myelination of fibres in the corpus callosum: Permits more rapid transmission of information and better integration between them.
