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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