Chapter 6 Teaching Vocabulary

physical changes in size, such as gains in height and weight

• growth

• development

• physical development

• cognitive

the gradual increase in skills and abilities that occurs over a lifetime

• cognitive development

• growth

• development

• cognitive

______ involves advances in physical abilities.

skills that depend on development of the large muscles, including those in the arms, legs, back, and shoulders

• fine-motor skills

• social-emotional development

• physical development

• gross-motor skills

skills that depend on development of the small muscles such as those in the hands and wrists

• gross skills

• fine-motor skills

• gross-motor skills

• fine skills

processes involving thought and knowledge

• physical development

• social-emotional development

• cognitive

• cognitive development

the way people change and improve in their abilities to think and learn throughout life.

• physical development

• cognitive development

• cognitive

• social-emotional development

Development that includes the areas of relationships and feelings. Individuals must learn social skills and how to care about others.

• social-emotional development

• cognitive development

• physical development

• developmental theories

explanations formulated by researchers about why people act and behave the way they do and how they change over time

• operant conditioning

• developmental theories

• behaviorism

• classical conditioning

a theory based on the belief that individuals' behavior is determined by forces in the environment that are beyond their control

• behaviorism

• constructionism

• cognizant

• virtue