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bodily growth and change in early childhood - Answer- ✔✔• Children grow rapidly
between ages 3 and 6, but less quickly than before
• Head is still relatively large, but other parts of the body continue to catch up as body
proportions become steadily more adultlike
• Boys have more muscle while girls have more fatty tissue
• Muscular and skeletal growth progresses, making children stronger
• Increased capacities of the respiratory and circulatory systems build physical stamina
along with the developing immune system
sleep/night terror - Answer- ✔✔awaken abruptly early in the night from a deep sleep in
a state of agitation. Occur mostly between the ages of 3 and 13 and affect boys more
than girls
enuresis - Answer- ✔✔repeated, involuntary urination at night by children old enough to
be expected to have bladder control is not unusual. This is common and not serious and
the child is not to blame and should not be punished.
brain development in early childhood - Answer- ✔✔• Less dramatic in early childhood
than in infancy
• The density of brain synapses in the prefrontal cortex peaks at age 4 and myelination
of pathways for hearing is also complete around that age
• By age six the brain has attained about 95 percent of its peak volume
• From age 3 to 6 the most rapid growth occurs in the frontal that regulate the planning
and organizing of actions
• From age 6 to 11, the most rapid growth is in an area that primarily supports
associative thinking, language, and spatial relations.
corpus callosum - Answer- ✔✔links the right and left hemisphere of the brain
gross motor skills - Answer- ✔✔physical skills that involve large muscles
fine motor skills - Answer- ✔✔physical skills that involve small muscles and hand-eye
coordination
systems of action - Answer- ✔✔increasingly complex combinations of skills, which
permit a wider or more precise range of movement and more control of the environment
handedness - Answer- ✔✔preference for using a particular hand. Usually evident by
age 3