FRHD 1010 Study Guide - Final Guide: Dishabituation, Attachment Theory, Emotional Contagion

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 1010
• Professor: Scott Brandon

Document Summary

Babies grow at a faster rate in their first year than at any later time of life. Babies accumulate fat in the early months which helps them maintain constant body temperature. By 1 year they begin to lose this fat and this continues until puberty. Height also increases dramatically in the first year but happens in spurts rather than steadily. Girls are shorter and lighter than boys at birth and throughout childhood until puberty when they briefly surpass boys in height. Cephalocaudal principle principle of biological development that growth tends to begin at the top with the head, and then proceeds downward to the rest of the body. Proximodistal principle principle of biological development that growth proceeds from the middle of the body outward. Babies have no visible teeth at birth but they have already started growing under the gums. First tooth usually appears between 5 and 9 months.