Lifespan
Physical
Social Category
Emotional
Intellectual
100
12 - 18 years of age.
What age span is considered the youth stage.
100
Refers to the changes that occur to the body and its systems.
What is physical development?
100
Refers to the social skills and behaviours that are learnt from a young age.
What is social development?
100
Developing a full range of emotions and learning appropriate ways of dealing with and expressing these emotions.
What is emotional development?
100
Attention, knowledge, language, memory, problem solving, thought patterns, creativity and imagination.
What are aspects of intellectual development?
200
Biological changes that occur during youth and prepare the individual for sexual reproduction.
What is puberty?
200
Movements that involve large muscle groups such as walking and throwing.
What is gross motor skills?
200
Having a distinct role within different groups of people.
What is a social role?
200
Relates to how someone sees themselves.
What is self concept?
200
The processes that occur within the brain and to the increasing complexity of the brain.
What is intellectual development?
300
The series of orderly, predictable changes that occur from conception until death. Can be physical, intellectual, emotional or social.
What is individual human development?
300
Control over the smaller muscle groups such as those used for writing and cutting with scissors.
What is fine motor skills?
300
Determining what is important to an individual.
What are values and beliefs?
300
The ability to recognise the emotions experienced.
What is awareness of emotions?
300
Retaining information and being able to recall it.
What is memory?
400
A sperm penetrates an egg in this process.
What is fertilisation?
400
The body's systems decline at a rate of 0.5 - 2% per year.
What is a normal part of ageing?
400
Being able to effectively communicate with different groups of people.
What are communication skills?
400
The ability to control emotions in an appropriate manner.
What is management of emotions?
400
A simple thought process that centres on objects and the physical environment.
What is concrete thought?
500
A significant skill or event occurring in a person's life: eg. learning to walk.
What is developmental milestones
500
Early 20s to early 30s.
What is the age at which most individuals reach their physical peak?
500
Conflict resolution and open communication are important for this.
What are relationship skills?
500
Encourages positive self-esteem.
What is good emotional development?
500
A complex thought process where ideas are the focus rather than tangible objects.
What is abstract thought?
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