FSW 245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: The First Three Years, Visual Acuity, Breastfeeding
10 Mar 2019
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Chapter 6: physical development and health during the first three years. Cephalocaudal principle: growth that occurs from top down. Proximodistal principle: growth and motor development that proceed from the center of the body outward. Breastfeeding: infant suckling the breast triggers the release of the hormone oxytocin: babies should be breast-fed for 6 months, offers many benefits, inadvisable if the mother is infected with any infectious illness (aids) Overweight problem: has increased in infancy in all age groups, factors that influence the chances that an overweight chil can become an obese adult, whether the child"s parent is obese, age of the child. Central nervous system: brain and spinal cord: sensory messages travel to the brain, motor commands travel back. Cerebral hemisphere: occipital lobe: visual processing, parietal lobe: integrating sensory information from the body, temporal lobe: interpret smells and sounds and is involved in memory, frontal lobe: involved in a variety of higher-order processes.
