Key words Flashcards
Motor Skills
fine and precise movements
gross motor skills
big movements
growth
an increase in measured quantity
development
complex changes
Puberty
a period of rapid growth during which young people reach sexual maternity.
Hormones
chemical substances produced in the body and transported in the blood stream that control the body cells.
Emotional Literacy
the ability to recognize, understand and appropriately express emotions .
Empathy
the ability to identify with or understand another situation of or feelings.
Attachment
a strong emotional connection between a child and caregiver
Self-esteem
how a person feels about themselves.
Emotional Literacy
the ability to recognise, understand and appropriately express emotions.
Self-image
the way in which an individual sees themselves, their mental image of themselves
Self-concept
an awareness formed in early childhood of being an individual, a unique person and different form everyone else.
diathesis
A predisposition or vulnerability to a mental disorder through abnormality of the brain or neuro-transmitters
