Human Lifespan and Development

Human Lifespan and Development

1. Infancy 0-2

   • Children can grow rapidly and devevolp a motor skill

2. Childhood 3-8

   • Children can grow rapidly and develop a motor skill
     • Gross motor Skill
       • Allow a child to control large muscles for example arms and legs
     • Fine motor skill
       • Allow children to control and co-ordinate their hands and fingers

3. Adolescence 9-18

   • Growth Spurts
     • A rapid increase in height over a short period of time
   • Sexual Maturity-When your reproductive organs are fully matured
   • Puberty
     • A period of change when a body reales chemicals called hormones
   • Primary Sexual Characteristics
     • These are present at birth
       • Girls
         • Vagina
         • Ovaries
       • Boys
         • Penis
         • Testes
   • Secondary Sexual Characteristics
     • These appear during puberty
       • Girls
         • Breasts enlarge
         • Increased fat layers under the skin
       • Boys
         • Growth of facial hair
         • Voice box grown and voice gets deeper

4. Early Adulthood 19-45

   • Physical Maturity
   • Reach full height and strength
   • Woman are at their most fertile

5. Late Adulthood 65+

   • Ageing Process
     • Loss of hearing
     • Loss of eye sight

6. Middle Adulthood 46-65

   • Ageing Process
     • Wrinkles
   • Menopause
     • When a woman periods stop
       • Symstems
         • Hot Flushes
         • Night Sweats
   • Start to loose hair

7. P.I.E.S

   • Physical
     • Growth and other changes that happen to our body
   • Intellectual
     • The development of language, memory and thinking skills
     • Problem solving
     • Language development
     • Memory
     • Creative thinking
     • Moral development
       • Right or wrong
       • Manners
       • The values people develop
       • Ego centric
         • You only think of yourself
         • You only see the world through your own point of view
   • Social
     • The ability to form friendships and relationships
       • Close friends
       • Wider friends
       • Formal friends
     • Independence
       • Doing things on your own
   • Emotional
     • The ability to cope with feelings about ourselves and towards others
     • Contentment
       • How happy someone is in their life
     • Secuirity
       • feeling of safety and being loved
     • Bonding and attachment
       • Bonds that you form with other people
     • Self image
       • How people respect and value themselves