Area of Study 1

• Physical development


  The changes that relate to people's size and shape, and therefore body structure
• 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
• Reflex


  An involuntary action
• Social development

  The increasing complexity of behaviour patterns used in relationships with other people
• Socialisation


  The process of acquiring values, attitudes and behaviours through interacting with others
• Gender roles


  A set of social, cultural and often political expectations that prescribe how females and males behave
• Emotional development

  Refers to feelings and moods, and the ways in which people learn to express, understand and exercise control over them
• 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
• Intellectual development

  The ways in which people are able to think and reason
• development

  the gradual changes in an individuals physical, social, emotional and intellectual states and abilities.
• health

  a state of complete physical, social and mental wellbeing and not merely the abse of disease and infirmity
• Social development examples


  Form new relationships

  Learning to communicate

  Learning to behave appropriately
• Emotional Development

  Developing self-esteem and self-concept

  Learning to control emotions

  Learning to understand the emotions of others
• Intellectual Development


  Recognising and remembering objects, words and events

  Establishing and expanding vocabulary

  Understanding concrete and abstract concepts

  Developing the ability to think logically and use reason
• Primary Sexual Characteristics


  Characteristics that develop during puberty that are related to the development of sex organs and the reproductive system 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.
• Secondary Sexual Characteristics Examples Male

  Voice breaking and deepening

  Hair growing on face and body hair increasing

  Body becoming more muscular

  appearance of pubic and under arm hair
• Secondary Sexual Characteristics Examples Female



  Breast development

  Widening of hips and thighs

  Appearance on pubic and underarm hair
• Fertilisation 


  The point at which the sperm penetrates the ovum to form new life