This is how the environmental variables impact on who we are as a person
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Define Nature
These are the hereditary factors that we inherit from our parents
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What does predisposition mean?
This means the tendency to suffer from a particular condition, particular attitude or act in a particular way
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Theorist who come down in favour of nature are also known as...
Nativists
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Theorists who come down in favour of nurture are also known as...
Behaviourists
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Is development continuous or does it happen in stages?
Some theorists feel that is passes through defined and separate stages, however, some others feel that it is more gradual
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Define growth
Refers to an increase in physical size
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What are the key principles of growth?
1. The rate of growth is variable
2. Different parts of the body can grow at different rates
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Define development
The acquisition of certain skills
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What are the key principles of development?
1. Development follows a definite, orderly sequence
2. Development begins with the control of head movements and continues down
3. Development begins with uncontrolled large (gross motor) movements before movements become precise and refined
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How do you measure development?
Look at the skills that children can do, known as milestones that are linked to ages of children
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What is the relationship between growth and development?
1. Growth provides the background for development
2. Growth supports speech
3. Growth can affect social and emotional development
4. Growth affects adults' responses
5. Bowel and bladder control
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What is physical development?
The way children learn to move and coordinate their bodies
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Physical Development
Gross motor skills and fine motor skills
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What is hand-eye coordination and under what area of development does it come under?
This is the control of eye and hand movements, it comes under physical development
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What is visual perceptual skills and what area of development does it come under?
This allows the child to visualise and interpret what they are seeing, comes under physical development
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What are gross motor skills?
Large movements of limbs, e.g. kicking a ball
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What are fine motor skills?
Small movements with finger muscles, e.g. playing with gloop
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What is cognitive development?
The way children learn to think and understand and process information.
Also, the way children learn to predict, reason, make sense of their experiences and problem solve.
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What is language development?
This is about our ability to talk, understand what others are saying and interpret facial expressions and body gestures
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What is emotional development?
About the way the children develop awareness of their feeling and learn to express and control them appropriately.
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What is social development?
This refers to the ability to make relationships and attachments with other people
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What does PLECS stand for?
Physical development, language development, emotional development, cognitive development and social development
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What exam technique should you use throughout writing a long response?
RUA/ET
R = recall
U = Understanding (PLECS)
A/e = analyse and explain
T = theorist
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
These are the hereditary factors that we inherit from our parents
Back
Define Nature
Card 3
Front
This means the tendency to suffer from a particular condition, particular attitude or act in a particular way
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