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Analysis: 2. Does Physical Development Begin From The Top or Below? From The Side To The Canter? Explain Your Answer

1. Babies have large heads compared to their bodies that allow for brain growth and learning. As children grow older, their limbs and trunk grow more than their heads, changing body proportions. 2. Physical development begins from the top (head) downwards (body) in early life according to the cephalocaudal trend. Later development occurs from the inside of the body outwards as motor skills develop. 3. A depressed environment can impede the physical development of infants and toddlers.

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Analysis: 2. Does Physical Development Begin From The Top or Below? From The Side To The Canter? Explain Your Answer

1. Babies have large heads compared to their bodies that allow for brain growth and learning. As children grow older, their limbs and trunk grow more than their heads, changing body proportions. 2. Physical development begins from the top (head) downwards (body) in early life according to the cephalocaudal trend. Later development occurs from the inside of the body outwards as motor skills develop. 3. A depressed environment can impede the physical development of infants and toddlers.

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ANALYSIS

Guide Questions

1. What do you notice about the size of the head in relation to the other parts of the
body as a person grows older?

ANSWER: It is changing proportions, Babies have enormous heads in relation to the size
of theirs bodies, Their big heads holds big brains, which they need because there's a lot
to learn. As a child gets older and grow taller. The Proportions of the body change. The
limbs and trunk grow steadily, but the head does not grow much bigger.

.2. Does physical development begin from the top or below? From the side
to the canter? Explain your answer.
ANSWER: Yes from the top to bottom. The cephalocaudal trend is the postnatal growth
from conception to 5 months when the head grows more than the body. This
cephalocaudal turned of growth that applies to the development of the fetus also
applies in the first months after birth. The proximodistal trend is the prenatal growth
from 5 months to birth when the fetus grows from the inside of the body outwards. The
proximodistal trned refers to the development of motor skills from the center of the
outwards.

TEST YOUR UNDERSTANDING


1. Which statement on physical development of infants and toddlers is TRUE?-
Analysis

The cephalocaudal growth pattern shows ________________________________

A. development of the upper limbs before the lower limbs


B. development of the lower limbs before the upper limbs
C. simultaneous development of the upper and lower limbs
D. development of muscular control of truck and arms before the fingers
2. As a normal infant and toddler, which physical development did you go through?-
Application

A. Development of motor skills from the body outward to the center


B. Development of motor skills from the center of the body outward
C. Development of the lower limbs before the upper limbs
D. Simultaneous development of the limbs and trunk body

3. Which factor according to research can impede the physical development of infants
and toddlers?-Understanding

A. Depressed environment
B. Early brain stimulation
C. Being the only child
D. Being a member of a big family

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