Key Terms Unit 1

Question 1

What are Gross Motor Skills?

Answer 1

Gross Motor Skill: The ability to move and co-ordinate the movement of the large limbs of the body, eg crawling, walking, climbing, running.

Question 2

What are Fine Motor Skills?

Answer 2

Fine Motor Skills: The ability to move and co-ordinate the movement of the hands and fingers, eg writing, painting, tying shoe laces, holding a spoon.

Question 3

What is Language development?

Answer 3

Language Development: The Process which children go through as they learn to communicate with others using words and speech.

Question 4

What does being egocentric mean?

Answer 4

Egocentric: Seeing things from only your own perspective or viewpoint.

Question 5

Describe what ‘bond’means in a child’s development?

Answer 5

Bond: To form an attachment with a parent or carer.

Question 6

What is a life stage?

Answer 6

Life Stages: A number of distinct phases people pass through during their lives

Question 7

What ages cover infancy?

Answer 7

0-2

Question 8

What ages cover Early Childhood?

Answer 8

3-8

Question 9

What ages cover Adolescence?

Answer 9

9-18

Question 10

What ages cover Early adulthood?

Answer 10

19-45

Question 11

What ages cover middle adulthood?

Answer 11

46-65

Question 12

What ages cover late adulthood?

Answer 12

65+

Question 13

What are PIES Developments?

Answer 13

P – Physical Development Gross motor skills and fine motor skills
I – Intellectual Development Language development – egocentric view of the world
E- Emotional Development Bonding with others
S- Social Development Interaction with others.

Question 14

Define Growth and Development

Answer 14

Growth: An increase in size, height and weight which can be measured.

Development: How the child gains skills and is able to control the actions their body makes

Question 15

What is Self image?

Answer 15

Self Image The mental picture we have of ourselves. Some people see themselves in a positive light – for instance, intelligent, attractive and talented whereas other may see only negatives.

Question 16

What is Self Esteem?

Answer 16

Self Esteem How much you like, accept and respect yourself – this is often talked about in terms of how much you value yourself.

Question 17

What is a mid life crisis?

Answer 17

Key Term: Mid life Crisis

A dramatic period of self doubt caused by the passing of youth and the move into later adulthood

Question 18

What is abstract thinking?

Answer 18

The ability to think using concepts and ideas rather than through using objects and doing tasks

Question 19

What are Oestrogen and Testosterone?

Answer 19

Hormones

Question 20

What are you doing if you empathise with someone?

Answer 20

See things from someone else’s perspective

Question 21

What is Peer Pressure

Answer 21

Where young people are influenced by the views, opinions and behaviours of their close friends.

Question 22

Describe ‘empty nest syndrome’

Answer 22

Feelings of grief and loneliness parents and grandparents or carers feel when their children leave home for the first time. This is not a clinical condition.

Question 23

What is dementia?

Answer 23

An illness that affects the brain and memory and makes you gradually lose the ability to think and behave normally.

Question 24

What or who is a role model?

Answer 24

Someone whose behaviour and/or attitudes people try to copy because they admire them.

Question 25

What is a persons ‘gender role’?

Answer 25

A role that is determined by a persons gender

Question 26

Define Manual work and non manual work

Answer 26

.Manual work: Work that requires the use of physical skills.

Non manual work: Work that depends primarily on mental skills.