Human growth and development

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Exploring human growth and development

Introducing infancy

Childhood growth and development

Experiencing adolescence

From adulthood to old age

Genes, inheritance and human development

Social factors and human development

Lifestyle factors and human development

Environmental factors and human development

Promoting health and wellbeing

Human growth

Human development

Developmental norms

Continuity as well as change

'Life' terms

Life course

Life span and life expectancy

Life stages

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Baby can sit unaided - 6-9 months
Baby can crawl - 8-10 months
Infant can say a few words - 9-12 months
Baby can walk unaided - 12-13 months
Puberty begins - 10 (girls) 12 (boys)
Menopause occurs 45-55 yeas

Increase in physical size or mass

Gradual process - occurs from birth until a point in adulthood when they reach their maximum height

Physical process of growth involves weight gain as well as height

Once reached maximum height, other aspects of physique evolved - reached a point of physical maturity

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Knowledge provides useful guide for assessing childs growth development

Observation, experience and research show specific growth and development occurs in specific time perioid