Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Chapter 1 Vocabulary

Human Development: a gradual process in which people change from birth to adult hood.

Physical Development: the changes in size ,body composition, chemical make up, and height that occur as humans develop form birth to adult hood.

Gross Motor Skills: involve large muscle movements such as crawling, walking, and jumping.

Fine Motor Skills: involve small muscle, movements such as cutting with scissors, typing on a key board, and writing with a pen or pencil.

Cognition:to perceive,sense, organize, memorize,recall,reason,problem solve, and imagine.

Cognitive Development: the way people change and grow in how they think over the stages of life.

Socio Emotional Development: changes in the way a persons social relationships,feelings,social skills,self esteem,gender identity, and ways of coping with situations over time.

Heredity: traits people are born with.

Environment: all of a persons surroundings and the people in them.

Nature Versus Nurture Debate:how much of people relates to genetics and how much relates to environment

Continuity:changes in development occur because of the slow progression of change

Discontinuity:something abruptly changing

Pedagogy: teacher or parent directed method of learning

Andragogy:development of self directed from earliest stages of infancy

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