Key Words Flashcards
Congnitive
To do with knowledge, intellect or the mind
Development
An increase in skills or ability.
The PIES changes that occur in a person
Fine motor skills
Small muscles of the hands
WRITING-GRASPING-SEWING
Gonadotropic hormones
Sexual hormones
Gross motor skills
Big muscles of the body
WALKING-THROWING-KICKING
Growth
The physical increase in the size and weight of a person
Health
Lack of disease, feeling well,happy and normal
Holistic
WHOLENESS- wellbeing of all aspects of pies
Hormones
Chemicals released by the body to make the body do something
GROW- DEVELOP SEXUALLY
Innate reflexes
Instinct which is built from birth
SUCKING-GRASPING
Locomotive skills
Motor skills that allow one to move around
WALKING-RUNNING-SKIPPING
Bilingual
Being able to speak two languages fluently
Maturation
Body clock
Tells the body when to start menstruating and when to get grey hair
Maturity
State of being fully developed physically and mentally
Menarche
A girls first period
Menopause
Shutting down of the body’s reproductive system in woman at 45-50 years old
Motor skills
The ability to move you’re own body in a controlled way
Nature
Unchangeable genes, inherited from ones parents
Norms
Average milestones that are expected in all individuals at a certain age.
Nurture
Experience and learning since birth
Postcode Lottery
Method of deciding whether a patient can have certain medical treatment, based on the postcode of their house
Progesterone
Female sex hormones
Secondary sexual characteristics
Self concept
Your idea of yourself including pies ideas
Stigma
Negative ideas or attitudes towards a certain way or life or people
Gamete
A sex cell
Neonate
New born infant
Milestones
Significant events - average timing
Ageing
Reduced functions of most organs takes place
