HLTH 220 Chapter Notes -Secondary Sex Characteristic, Pubic Hair, Seminal Vesicle
11 Oct 2013
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Lecture 4 lifespan development and health physical development. Textbook: lifespan development: a topical approach 2nd edition. Changes in height and weight and less apparent changes in the nervous system. Increasingly stable patterns in such basic activities as sleeping, eating, and attending to the world. Infants grow rapidly over their first two years: 5 months, birth weight doubles, 12 months, birth weight triples and is almost one foot tall. Integrating body systems: the life cycles of infancy. Most basic activities are controlled by a variety of bodily systems; takes time for infants to integrate the separate behaviours to a behavioural pattern. Behaviour becomes integrated is through the development of various rhythms, repetitive, cyclical patterns of behaviour. State, the degree of awareness to both internal and external stimulation: levels of wakeful behaviours, such as alertness, fussing, and crying and different levels of sleep as well.
