Unit 2

• PIES: Physical Development, Intellectual Development, Emotional Development, Social Development
• Physical Development: The changes that relates to peoples size and shape, and therefore body structure.
• Intellectual Development (Also known as cognitive development): The ways in which people are able to think and reason.
• Emotional Development: Refers to feelings and moods, and all the ways in which people learn to express, understand and exercise control over them.
• Social Development: The increasing complexity of behaviour patterns used in relationships with other people.
• Gross Motor Skills: The ability to control the movement of larger muscle groups within the body.
• Fine Motor Skills: The ability to control the movement of smaller muscle groups within the body
• Hypothalamus - Hormone releasing Growth Hormone
• Hypothalamus - Hormone releasing Growth Hormone
• Pituitary Gland - Growth hormone, Thyroid-stimulating hormone, Adrenocorticotropic Hormone, Follicle Stimulating Hormone, Luteinising hormone
• Pituitary Gland - Growth hormone, Thyroid-stimulating hormone, Adrenocorticotropic Hormone, Follicle Stimulating Hormone, Luteinising hormone
• Thyroid Gland - Thyroxine
• Thyroid Gland - Thyroxine
• Adrenal Glands - Adrenaline, Aldosterone, Cortisol
• Adrenal Glands - Adrenaline, Aldosterone, Cortisol
• Ovaries - Oestrogen, Progesterone
• Ovaries - Oestrogen, Progesterone
• Testes - Testosterone
• Testes - Testosterone
• Self Esteem - How a person feels about their own abilities and self worth.
• Self Concept - The idea individuals have of themselves; who they are, who they want to be, what they value, and what they believe others think of them.
• Socialisation - The process of acquiring values, attitudes and behaviours through interacting with others.
• Primary Sexual Characteristics - Characteristics that develop during puberty that are related to the development of the sex organs and reproductive systems of males and females, enabling them to reproduce
• Secondary Sexual Characteristics - Characteristics that develop during puberty that indicate sexual maturity but are not related to a person’s ability to reproduce.
• Prenatal - Conception to Birth
• Infancy - Birth - 2
• Childhood - 2 - 12
• Youth - 12 - 18
• Early Adulthood - 18 - 40
• Middle Adulthood 40 - 65
• Late Adulthood 65+