Unit 1 human lifespan development

Unit 1 human lifespan development

1. The six life stages

   • Infancy 0-2 years
   • Adolescence 9-18 years
   • Middle adulthood 46-65
   • Early childhood 3-8 years
   • early adulthood 19-45
   • later adulthood65+

2. aspect of development (PIES)

   • physical development
     • growth and other physical changes that happen to our body throughout life
   • intellectual/cognitive development
     • the development of language, memory and thinking skills
   • emotional development
     • the ability to cope with feelings about ourselves and towards other
   • social development
     • the ability to form friendships and relationships and to learn to be independent

3. growth and physiological change

   • growth
     • growth is a term to describe the increase of heigh and weight.
     • growth continues until early adulthood
   • infancy/early childhood
     • children grow rapidly and develop many physical skills
   • adolescent
     • the body continues to develop. there may be growth spurts. bodies will change as they reach sexual maturity
   • young adult
     • the body has reached physical maturity
   • older adult
     • the ageing process begins in mid adult

4. gross motor skills

   • gross motor skills allow infants to control large muscles in the body
     • grawl, walk, run
   • stages of GMS development
     • 1. infants develop their GMS from the head down
     • 2. they gradually control the muscles in their neck and back so they can roll, sit and crawl
     • 3. the muscles in their legs and feet develop so they can stand and walk
     • 4 /5. in early childhood the large muscles continue to develop and help to coordination and balance

5. fine motor skills

   • FMS i the skill that allows young children to be able a cotrol the small muscles in their bodie
     • hands and fingers
   • manipulating
     • babies use their whole hand to manipulate objects. by 12 months they start to use the small muscles in their fingers
     • building blocks, playing with toy farm animals, playing musical instruments are all activities that are manipulating
   • gripping
     • by one months babies can grasp an adult finger. by 3 months they can grip a rattle
       • playing with a rattle, holding a small toy, feeding self with spoon
   • hand-eye coordination
     • a child is able to use the muscles in their fingers and can pick up building blocks and use their eyes to guide their hands
     • playing with jigsaw, writing, sewing

6. physical development stages

   • adolescence
     • puberty
       • during adolescence you exprience a period of change called puberty. this starts when the brain releases chemicals called hormones
     • changes to primary characteristics
       • primary characteristic are what are present at birth. a change to characteristic change during puberty and hormones
     • change to secondary characteristics
       • secondary charateristic appear during puberty. these can could in form as change of height, shape of body and they diiferent characteristics that a certain sex gets
     • male sexual characteristics
       • primary characteristics
         • penis enlarges
         • prostate gland produces secretion
         • testes enlarge and produce sperm
       • secondary
         • growth of facial hair
         • growth of armpit and pubic hair
         • increased muscle and strength
         • growth spurt
         • voice box (larynx) grows so the voice deepens
     • female sexually characteristics
       • primary
         • uterus and vagina grows
         • ovulation and menstrual periods begins
       • secondary
         • enlargement of breasts
         • growth of armpits and pubic hair
         • increased fat layers under the skin
         • growth spurt

7. physical development in adulthood

   • early adulthood
     • physically mature
     • reach full height and strength
     • fully develop and can reproduce
     • women are most fertile
   • middle adulthood
     • start showing ageing
     • being to lose muscle and strength
     • body shape can change
     • men may lose hair
     • womens menstruation end and can no longer have children

8. later adulthood