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