Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Chapter 1 Vocabulary

Human Development- The similar process people go through stages of development over time. It is a gradual process in which people change from birth through adulthood.

Physical Development- The changes in size, body composition, chemical make-up, and height that occur as humans develop from birth to adulthood.

Gross-motor skills- Involves large muscle movements such as crawling, walking, and jumping.

Fine-motor skills- Involves small muscle movements such as cutting with scissors, typing on a keyboard, and writing with a pen or pencil.

Cognition- Processes or actions involving thinking or knowing how to perceive, sense, organize, memorize, recall, reason, problem solve, and imagine.

Cognitive Development- The way people change and grow in how they thunk over the stages of life.

Socio-emotional development- Refers to changes in the way a person's social relationships, feelings, social skills, self-esteem, gender identity, and ways of copying with situations change over time.

Heredity- Traits people are born with.

Environment- All of a person's surroundings and the people in them.

Nature versus nurture debate- The debate between genetic versus environmental influences on development.

Continuity- Developmental changes are relatively slow, but steady.

Discontinuity- A process of development, spurred by abrupt changes.

Pedagogy- A teacher-or-parent- directed method of learning.

Andragogy- Some people believe that development is self-directed from the earliest stages of infancy.

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