Unit 1 - Learning aim A

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Growth
A gradual process which occurs from birth until a point in early adulthood when you reach your maximum height. It involves both height and weight gain.
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Development
A change in a person's skills and capabilities e.g. people develop intellectually, emotionally etc.
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Developmental norms
The process of human growth and development follows a fairly predictable pattern.
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Milestone
Significant stages or events in the development of life.
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Gross motor skills
Gross motor skills are larger movements your baby makes with his arms, legs, feet, or his entire body. So crawling, running, and jumping are gross motor skills.
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Fine motor skills
Fine motor skill (or dexterity) is the coordination of small muscle movements—usually involving the synchronization of hands and fingers—with the eyes.
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Life stages meaning
The phrase of growth and.development that a person passes through
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What are the life stages
Infancy 0-2/Childhood 2-8/Adolescence 9-18/Early adulthood 18-45/Middle adulthood 46-65/Later adulthood 65+
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Equilibrium
A balance or stability
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Disquilibrium
A loss or lack of stability
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Accommodation
A room, group of rooms, or building in which someone may live or stay.
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Concrete logical thinking
Thinking that is focused on the physical world.
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Ecocenetric thinking
Viewing the individual at the centre of all things.
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Self image
The idea one has of one's abilities, appearance, and personality.
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Self esteem
Confidence in one's own worth or abilities; self-respect.
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Deprivation
The damaging lack of material benefits considered to be basic necessities in a society.
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Seperation anxiety
Anxiety provoked in a young child by separation or the threat of separation from its mother or main carer.
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Emotional literacy
The ability to deal with one's emotions and recognize their causes.
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Empathy
The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
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Sympathy
Feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else's misfortune.
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Emotional attachment
A strong emotional bond that an infant forms with a caregiver.
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Peer influences
 The ability to influence individual behavior among members of a group based on group norms.
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Solo play
To play alone
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Parallel play
To play alongside eachother, neither effecting or influencing actions.
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Associative play
Children interacting and possibly hsaring but still playing seperatly.
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Cooperative play
Play where children plan, assign roles and play with an end goal.
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Independance
Freedom from the control, influence, support, aid, or the like, of others.
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A change in a person's skills and capabilities e.g. people develop intellectually, emotionally etc.

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Development

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The process of human growth and development follows a fairly predictable pattern.

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Significant stages or events in the development of life.

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Gross motor skills are larger movements your baby makes with his arms, legs, feet, or his entire body. So crawling, running, and jumping are gross motor skills.

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