NURSING 210 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Neural Pathway, Myelin, Motor Learning
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Learning objectives: what it means to say that human development is integrated, interactive, and dynamic, what role brain maturation plays in major developmental events that characterize early childhood. The distinction between gross and fine motor skills and how each develops during early childhood. The changes in memory that occur during the preschool years: how language develops during early childhood. Physical development: changes in the body, rate of growth slower than during the first two years, but on average children grow almost 3 inches taller and gain about 4 pounds 12 ounces. Bones develop and harden through ossification: body proportions change dramatically, head no longer comprises of body. By age 16, it is 1/8 of the body"s length: children carry a higher proportion of weight in their upper body which gives them a higher center of gravity. This sheath increases the speed of transmission and the precision of the nervous system.
