Introduction to Human Development Vocabulary

Gradual process through which humans change from birth to adulthood

• andragogy

• continuity

• human development

• pedagogy

All of the actions or processes involving thinking and knowing

• pedagogy

• physical development

• socio-emotional development

• cognition

Developmental changes that are relatively slow, but steady

• Continuity

• Discontinuity

• Physical Development

• Nature vs. Nurture

Physical tasks involving large muscle movements such as crawling, walking, and jumping

• Physical development

• Gross-motor skills

• Fine-motor skills

• Heredity

Physical tasks involving small muscle movements such as cutting with scissors, typing on a keyboard, and writing with a pen or pencil

• Fine motor skills

• Gross motor skills

• Self-directed learning

• Heredity

Self-directed learning

• Pedagogy

• Andragogy

• Heredity

• Environment

Teacher or parent directed learning

• Andragogy

• Environment

• Heredity

• Pedagogy

Changes in how people perceive, sense, organize, memorize, recall, reason, problem solve, and imagine that occur as humans develop from birth through older adulthood

• Physical development

• Cognitive development

• Socio-emotional development

Changes in size, body composition, chemical make-up, and height that occur as humans develop from birth through older adulthood

• Physical development

• Cognitive development

• Socio-development

Debate between genetic and environmental influences on development

• Heredity

• Environment

• Nature vs. Nurture

• Socio-emotional development