Physical Growth, Maturation, and Aging
The developmental process that leads to a state of full function
What is physiological maturation?
Subcutaneous fat is located where in body?
Under the skin
List factors that tend to limit the anaerobic endurance of older adults?
training
body mass
injury
The ability to move joints through a full range of motion.
What is flexibility?
The composition of tissue making up the body as divided into lean tissues or fat tissues
What is body composition?
The direction of growth proceeding from the body toward the extremities.
What is proximodistal?
The cells of the nervous system that receive and transmit information.
What are neurons?
As we age, what happens to lung elasticity?
Lung elasticity declines
Muscle _______ is the ability to exert force
The sharpness of sight.
What is acuity?
the process wherein cells become specialized, forming tissues and organs.
what is differentiation?
Chemical substances secreted into body fluids by a gland. These substances have specific effects on the activities of target cells, tissues, or organs.
What are hormones?
Anaerobic performance lasts between ____ and ____ seconds.
**Looking for an amount of time
10 and 30 seconds
Strength is the exertion of force against constant resistance through the range of motion at a joint
What is Isotonic strength?
A person's judgement of the distance from himself or herself to an object or place in space.
What is depth perception?
an increase in the absolute number of cells
There is a brief period of contraction of a muscle followed by relaxation.
What is a twitch?
Extra 100 points: What are the two types of muscle twitches that can occur?
The rate at which the body can meet demand for short-term intense activity.
What is anaerobic power?
What is muscle hypertrophy?
The amount of energy needed to sustain the body's vital functions in the waking stage.
What is the basal metabolic rate?
The direction of growth beginning at the head and extending toward the lower body.
What is cephalocaudal?
At what age does the brain reach 80% of its adult weight.
By Age 4
The highest rate at which oxygen can be consumed by the muscles during aerobic work
What is peak oxygen uptake?
A chronic degenerative disease of the joints
What is osteoarthritis?
The ability to discriminate parts of a picture or an object from the whole, yet integrate the parts into the whole, perceiving them simultaneously.
What is whole-and-part perception?