Development Flashcards
Intellectual development
The development of processes in the brain such as thought knowledge and memory.
Physical development
Changes to the body and its systems these can be changes in size (i.e. growth) complexity (e.g. Increase in complexity of the nervous system) and motor skills (e.g. learning to walk).
Emotional development
The development of the full range of emotions and the optimal way of dealing with and expressing them.
Social development (VCAA)
The increasing complexity of behaviour patterns used in relationships with other people.
Define individual human development
The series of orderly, predictable changes that occur from conception until death.
Development can be physical, social, emotional and intellectual.