Francesca Storey's questions Flashcards
What is the age of the Middle adulthood life stage?
46-65
At what life stage do you reach the peak of your physical fitness?
Early adulthood (19-45)
What Gross and Fine motor skill will a New-born have?
Gross motor - primitive reflexes
Fine motor - hold their thumbs tucked into their hands
A Gross and Fine motor skill of a 3 month old child?
Gross motor - can lift their heads and chest when lying on their fronts
Fine motor - can briefly grasp a rattle
A Gross and Fine motor skill of a 18 month old child?
Gross motor - climbs onto furniture
Fine motor - builds a short tower with blocks
What is the Babinski reflex?
When a babies foot has been stroked, the big toe then moves upward to the top of the surface of the foot
By what age can children do many activities independently?
8
Gross motor skills of early childhood stage
3 - run and balance on one foot 4 - climb upstairs 5- hop 6- skip 7- run fast 8- ride a bike
what are the male and female hormones?
Male - testosterone
Female - Oestrogen and progesterone
What are Hormones?
Chemical substances produced in the body and transported in the bloodstream that control or regulate body cells or organs
What gland controls the release of sex hormones in both males and females?
Pituitary gland
What is menopause?
The end of a woman’s fertility, including stopping of menstruation and reduction in sex hormones
Major female changes during puberty
- Pubic hair grows
- Gain weight
- Period start
Major male changes during puberty
- Penis and testes develop
- facial hair grows
- Voice breaks
Symptoms of Perimenopause
- Hot flushes
- Vaginal Dryness
- Irregular/ Heavy periods
Physical changes during 40s
- Thinning of hair
- Grey hair
- Loss of mobility
How can language development be promoted in Adolescence?
- Read a wide range of books
- Discuss ideas
- Plan/deliver presentations
How can language development be promoted in Infants?
- Blow Bubbles
- Look at picture books
- Play with Puppets
How can language development be promoted in young children?
- Take part in circle time
- Play word games and riddles
- Share stories and rhymes
What is language needed for?
- Develop imagination
- Be ready for nursery/school/jobs
- Express opinions
- Understand others
What are some ways you can encourage intellectual development?
- Encourage them to ask questions
- Share books and stories
- Allow them to help in the house and garden
- Let them be creative and messy
What are some conditions that might hinder intellectual development?
- Poor eyesight
- Deafness
- Bullying
- Poor concentration
What is Abstract Logical Thinking?
The ability to solve problems using imagination without having to be involved practically
What is Egocentric thinking?
Not being able to see a situation from another persons point of view.
What is Concrete Logical Thinking?
The ability to solve problems providing an individual can see or physically handle the issues involved
What is cognitive development?
A child’s ability to learn and solve problems
What is Chomsky’s model?
Noah Chomsky believed that the ability to develop a signed/spoken language is genetically programmed into individuals. (Born with an Language Acquisition Device)
What is Emotional Literacy?
The ability to recognise, understand and appropriately express emotions
What is Stranger Anxiety?
An infant becomes anxious/fearful around strangers
Why may the attachment of an infant to a caregiver not go smoothly?
- Separation
- Prematurity
- Foster care/adoption
- Emotional unavailability
- Post-natal Depression
- Disability
What is Solo play?
Children learn and practice basic social skills through play
What is Parallel play?
When children play alongside other children and there is little interaction
What are social benefits of friendship?
- Friends help to deal with traumatic life events
- Help individuals who feel lonely
- Reduce stress and depression and boost happiness
What are the 4 factors affecting development?
- Genetic
- Environmental
- Social
- Economic
What does Nature mean?
Genes
What does Nurture mean?
Environment
What is Gessell’s maturation theory?
In research he found that there are milestones for each development aspect and each child moves through these at their own pace. He came up with the conclusion that development was predetermined and the environment has little influence.
What is Bandura’s Social Learning Theory?
Based on his observations of learning occuring the observation of behaviour of others.
What are the four stages to Bandura’s Social Learning Theory?
1) Child notices behaviour
2) Child remembers what they have observed
3) Reproduces behaviour when they can
4) Depending on the outcome- they will either copy or desist
How can a child be affected if their mother smokes throughout the pregnancy?
- Child weighs less at birth
- Child is more prone to infections
- Child is twice more likely to die of cot death
- Affects the child’s long-term development
What can exposure to pollution do?
- Air and water pollution can cause ill health
- Air quality leads to asthma and other respiratory problems
- The environment may contain chemicals from vehicles
- household pollutants include mould and some cleaning products emit poisonous gas
What can poor housing quality lead to?
- Mental Health issues
- Asthma
- Hypothermia
- Air pollution
- Lack of education from being ill
What are some barriers to accessing services?
- Transportation
- Appointment hours
- Physical barriers (Lack of lifts)
- Resource barriers (Lack of staff)
- Waiting lists
What is an Extended family?
Parents, children, Grandparents and sometimes other relatives life together or near each other.
What is a Nuclear family?
Mother, father and children living together
What is a Reconstituted family?
Like a nuclear family but the children may not be related to both adults
What is a Lone parent?
When one parent lives with a child or children
What are the three main parenting styles?
Authoritative, Authoritarian, Permissive
What is the Authoritative parenting style?
Parents are not overly strict, children brought up to respect authority and develop appropriate values and boundaries
What is the Authoritarian parenting style?
Parents have high expectations, often overwhelming their children with strict rules and regulations.
What is the Permissive parenting style?
Parents make few demands, and may be reluctant to implement rules or values into the lives of their children.
What might a child living n a low income have?
- Overcrowded housing (Less room to do work)
- More exposure to pollution
- Low-self confidence
- Poor diet
What is Primary Socialisation ?
What you learn from your parents
Barriers to leisure facilities may include:
- Cost
- Time
- Culture
- Location
- Travel
What are some predictable life events?
- Marriage
- Starting school
- Parenthood
- leaving home
What are some unpredictable life events?
- Birth of a sibling
- Redundancy
- Divorce
- Serious illness/injury
What are some risks of Cardiovascular disease?
- Family background of the disease
- Ethnic background
- Poorly controlled diabetes
- Poor lifestyle
