Lifespan Development Chapter 1 Test Review

All of the actions or processes involving thinking and knowing.

• heredity

• cognition

Developmental changes that are relatively slow, but steady.

• continuity

• discontinuity

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

• fine motor skills

• gross motor skills

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

• large muscles

• fine motor skills

Self-directed learning.

• pedagogy

• andragogy

Changes in how people perceive, sense, organize, memorize, recall, reason, problem solve, and imagine that occur as humans develop.

• cognitive development

• physical development

Debate between genetic and environmental influences on development.

• discontinutity

• nature vs. nurture

Process of development, spurred by abrupt changes.

• discontinuity

• heredity

Changes in the way a person's social relationships, feelings, social skills, self-esteem, gender identity, and ways of coping with situations develop from birth through older adulthood.

• cognitive development

• socio-emotional development

Traits that people are born with or have genetically acquired.

• environment

• heredity