Skills & Abilities
Physical skills that use the large muscles in the arms and legs
What are large motor skills?
Play that takes place alongside other children but not with them
What is parallel play?
Before birth
What is prenatal?
Process that continues through the life span
What is human development?
Natural chemicals that are released within the body and affect its system
What are hormones?
Physical skills that use small muscles of the hands and fingers
What are small motor skills?
Play that involves interacting with other children in small groups
What is cooperative play?
Developing baby during the first eight weeks of pregnancy
What is a embryo?
Physical development, intellectual development, emotional development, social development, and moral development.
What are the 5 areas of development?
Moods switching
What are mood swings?
Skills and abilities that are mastered as part of the maturing processes
What are development tasks?
Everything that surrounds you
What is the environment?
Developing baby from the ninth week of pregnancy to birth
What is a fetus?
One of the constant features of life's journey
What is change?
The period following the onset of puberty during which a young person develops from a child into an adult
What is adolescence?
Ability to make precise movements with hands in relation to what the eyes see
What is eye-hand coordination?
Set of characteristics that you inherit from your parents and ancestors
What is heredity?
Appearance, strength, and coordination
What are 3 physical developments.
The period during which adolescents reach sexual maturity and become capable of reproduction
What is puberty?
Automatic, involuntary responses
What are reflexes?
Very young baby or child
What is an infant?
The process of developing or being developed
What does development mean?
The occurrence of inflamed or infected sebaceous glands in the skin; in particular, a condition characterized by red pimples on the face, prevalent chiefly among teenagers
What is acne?