Chapter 1: An Intro to Lifespan Development

The process of growing and changing throughout life

• human development

• physical development

• mental development

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

• physical development

• social development

• cognitive development

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

• gross-motor skills

• fine-motor skills

• physical development

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

• physical development

All of the actions or processes involving thinking and knowing

• cognition

• mental ability

• intelligence

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

• cognitive development

• emotional development

• social development

The 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

• socio-emotional development

• cognitive development

• physical development

Traits that people are born with or have genetically acquired

• heredity

• environment

• ingrained

All of a person’s surroundings and the people in them

• environment

• household

• nature versus nurture debate

The debate between genetic and environmental influences on development

• nature versus nurture debate

• environment

• heredity