Human Growth and Development Ch1

What is Human Development?

• A gradual process through which humans change from birth to adult hood.

• The study of genes

What is Ethics?

• Change in ones body size

• Relationships

• A set of moral principles

What is Physical Development?

• Measuring the quantity of items

• The changes in size, body composition, chemical make-up, and height that occur as humans develop from birth through older adult good.

• Cultural expectations of when major life milestones occur

What is Gross Motor Skills?

• No muscle movements

• Small muscle movements

• Large muscle movements

What are Fine Motor Skills?

• Small muscle movements

• Large muscle movements

• No muscle movements

• Large and small muscle movements

What is Cognition?

• Actions involving running and jumping

• Actions that involve nothing

• All of the actions or processes involving thinking and knowing

What is Cognitive Development?

• Ideas about how people think.

• When students work in groups

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

What is Socio emotional development ?

• Includes the child's experience, expression, and management of emotions and the ability to establish positive and rewarding relationships with others

• the passing on of physical or mental characteristics genetically from one generation to another.

What is Environment?

• The ways people develop

• the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates.

What is the nature vs nurture debate?

• The debate between right and wrong

• The debate between genetics and environmental influences on development