What each letter in P.I.E.S stands for, each representing a different area in child development.
What is Physical, Intellectual, Emotional, Social
100
Head to Foot, Near to Far and Simple to Complex.
What are the patterns of physical development?
100
If a baby is shaken or jiggled this syndrome, which could lead to brain damage, learning problems, blindness, deafness and even death could occur.
What is Shaken Baby Syndrome?
100
This development relates to the babies changing feelings about themselves.
What is emotional development?
100
This is the name of the pathway that moves information from the senses through the nerves and spinal cord to the brain.
What is the central nervous system.
200
This word refers to the changes in weight and length of a baby. It is very rapid during the first year as babies will gain about 1-2 pounds per month and go from 20 inches at birth to on average 30 inches at 12 months.
What is growth?
200
10 days after birth, a baby can distinguish their mother from others using this sense.
What is smell?
200
Putting the baby down in a safe place and leaving the room, asking a family member or close friend to babysit so you can have a break, calling a parenting hotline and taking the baby to a crisis nursery.
What are safe ways of dealing with cries?
200
When discussing this development, we can say that babies are very self-centered and progress as they age to be able to live and work with others.
What is social development?
200
There are many theories on child development. However, this fellow is the theorist that is specific to intellectual development and divides learning into four sequential stages: sensorimotor, pre-operational, concrete operational and formal operational.
Who is Jean Piaget?
300
Theses are gaps in a babies head that do not fully close until about 9-12 months.
What are fontanels?
300
During the first year, babies rely on these 5 things to learn about their world through
What are the 5 senses? or What is sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch?
300
Removing blankets, pillows, and stuffed toys as well as placing the baby on its back can prevent this syndrome.
What is Sudden Infant Death Syndrome?
300
This is a normal stage in a baby's development and occurs because a baby's memory has improved. It can be eased by having contact with many people.
What is stranger anxiety?
300
This part of the brain permits complex learning and is better developed in a baby by its 2nd or 3rd month.
What is the cortex?
400
This influence on growth and development is shaped by your genes.
What is heredity?
400
Babies understand these before even being able to speak.
What are words?
400
For the first 6 months, a babies primary source of nutrition is from one of these (or a combination of) two things.
What is breast milk and formula?
400
This is very important in attachment and was proven by an experiment by Harry Harlow.
What is physical contact?
400
This term is used to define when a baby understands that if something happens, or they do a certain things - something else consistently happens as a result. This is part of their intellectual development while they are a baby, as well as learning from their senses and developing their memory.
What is cause and effect?
500
This influence on growth and development, relates to the foods you eat.
What is nutrition?
500
These two skills, are the terms used to describe physical skills related to large and small muscles.
What are fine motor skills and gross motor skills?
500
Babies under 1 should not be fed this type of drink.
What is cows milk? (will also accept fruit juice - although fruit juice should simply be limited and/or diluted with water)
500
If babies are comforted and cared for consistently, and live in a home with a generally positive emotional climate, they will build this which acts as a good foundation for social and emotional development.
What is trust?
500
Gradually, the brain sends messages to our body to tell it what to do, however when a baby is really young - this are often simply _____________ and not a general sign of intellectual development.