Key Points
Key Points: Physical Development
- Infants show automatic motor responses due to natural growth (maturation), without prior learning.
- Cephalo-caudal development: control grows from head to toe (head → arms → legs).
- Proximo-distal development: control grows from the centre outward (shoulders/arms → hands/fingers).
- Physical growth after birth is rapid in neural, skeletal, genital, lymphoid, and respiratory systems, especially in early childhood and puberty.
- Physical growth affects behaviour, social experiences, interests, attitudes, and personality, with hormones influencing adolescence.
Important Questions [2]
- Ravi is a young adolescent whose parents do not allow him to share his views. This makes him aggressive and indisciplined at school.The style of parenting evident here is ______.
- Ritesh is a seventeen-year old boy who is suffering from depression and needs help.Suggest any three ways by which Ritesh can be helped to overcome depression.
