Human Development: an amazing, 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: involve small muscle movements such as cutting with scissors, typing on a keyboard, and writing with a pen or pencil.
Cognition: actions or processes involving thinking and knowing.
Cognitive Development: the way people change and grow in how they think over the stages of life
Socio-emotional Development: refers to the changes in the way a person's social relationships, feelings, social skills, self-esteem, gender identity, and ways of coping with situations change over time.
Heredity: traits people are born with (genes passed down through your family's lineage)
Environment: all of a person's surroundings and the people in them
Nature versus nurture debate: the debate between genetics versus environmental influences on development (ex. the debate on wether evil can be born or only created)
Continuity: slow but steady developmental changes
Discontinuity: development spurred by sudden/abrupt changes (ex. divorce, new school, death in family)
Pedagogy: teacher or parent-directed method of learning
Andragogy: self-directed development from the earliest stages of infancy.
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