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| Human Development | A gradual process through which humans change from birth to adulthood |
| physical development | the changes in size, body composition, chemical make-up and height that occurs as a humans develop from birth through older adulthood |
| gross-motor skills | Physical task involving large muscle movement such as crawling, walking, and jumping |
| fine-motor skills | Physical task involving small muscles movement such as cutting with scissors |
| cognition | all of the actions or processes involving thinking and knowing |
| cognitive development | The changes in how people perceive, sense, organize, memorize, recall, reason, problem solve, and image that occur as humans develop from birth through older adulthood |
| socio-emotional development | The changes in the way a person's social relationships, feelings, social skills, self-esteem, gender identity adn ways if coping with situations develop from birth through older adulthood |
| heredity | Traits that people are born with or have genetically acquired |
| environment | all of a person's surroundings and the people in them |
| nature vs nurture debate | The debate between genetic and environment influences on development |
| continuity | Refers to the development changes that are relatively slow, but steady |
| discontinuity | The process of development, spurred by abrupt change |
| pedagogy | Teacher or parent-directed learning |
| andragogy | self-directed learning |
