EDP 3326 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Prefrontal Cortex, Neuroplasticity, Breast Milk

• School: Baylor University
• Department: Educational Psychology
• Course: EDP 3326
• Professor: Janet Bagby

Document Summary

Describe changes in body size, body proportions, and muscle-fat makeup during the first 2 years of life. Height and weight gains are greater during the first two years than at nay other time after birth. Body fat is laid down quickly during the first nine months, whereas muscle development is slow and gradual. Parts of the body grow at different rates, following the cephalocaudal and proximodistal trends, resulting in changing body proportions. Cephalocaudal trend- an organized pattern of physical growth in which the head develops more rapidly than the lower part of the body head to tail . Proximodistal trend- an organized pattern of physical growth that proceeds from the center of the body outward near to far . Skeletal age, a measure based on the number of epiphyses and the extent to which they are fused, is the best way to estimate the child"s overall physical maturity.