Unit 2- 3 Flashcards
Development
The gradual increase in skills and abilities that occur over a lifetime.
Growth
Refers to physical changes in size
Physical development
Growth is rapid in the first year of life
Gross-motor skills
Skills such as walking, and throwing are dependent on the development of the large muscles
Fine-motor skills
Skills such as picking up objects and eating with a spoon are dependent on the development of the small muscles
Cognition
Processes involving thought and knowledge are called
Cognitive development
The way people change and improve their ability to think and learn throughout life
Social-emotional development
Includes the areas of relationships and feelings
Sequence
Steps that consistently follow one after another
Development theories
Explanations about why people act and behave the way they do and how they change over time
Behaviorism
Theory based on the belief that individuals behavior is determined by forces in the environment that are beyond their control
Classical conditioning
Pavlovs theory that refers to learned responses to the previously neutral stimulus
Operant conditioning
When people tend to repeat behaviors that have a positive result or are reinforced
