Physical Development
DNA & Etc.
Developmental Tasks
Newborn Terms
100
The skills that use the large muscles in your arms and legs.
What are large motor skills?
100
The set of characteristics that you inherit from your parents and ancestors. You inherit these characteristics through genes.
What is hereditary?
100
This area involves your ability to think, understand, reason, and communicate.
What is intellectual development?
100
From 9 weeks until birth- the developing baby.
What is a fetus?
200
The skills that use the small body parts of your body such as your hands.
What are small motor skills?
200
The basic units of heredity that are passed on from parents to their children. These determine physical traits such as eye color, hair color, height, and build.
What are genes?
200
The emergence f a child's expression, understanding, and regulation of emotions from birth through late adolescence.
What is emotional development?
200
First 8 weeks until birth-the developing baby.
What is an embryo?
300
The process that begins in the infancy stage and continues in the late adolescence stage, focusing on developing control over your body, while using muscles and physical coordination.
What is physical development?
300
The bases of DNA.
What is Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, and Thymine?
300
Prioritizing human needs in the growth and progression of society.
What is social development?
300
Begins with conception and ends with birth.
What is Prenatal?
400
The stage that physical development starts with.
What is infancy?
400
Automatic, involuntary responses.
What are reflexes?
400
Children learn to understand right from wrong.
What is Moral development?
400
A recently born child or animal.
What is a newborn?
500
The development of appearance, strength, and coordination.
What are the changes in physical development?
500
Affect emotions and trigger changes of the body.
What are hormones?
500
A task that arises at or about a certain period in life.
What is a developmental task?
500
A very young child or baby.
What is an infant?