Developmental Areas Flashcards

Vocabulary flashcards covering the major areas of human development: physical, cognitive, and social-emotional, as outlined in the lecture notes.

Physical Development

The developmental area concerning everything related to the body, divided into four categories: physical growth, motor, sensory, and sensomotor development.

Biological Development (Lichamelijke ontwikkeling)

Pure physical growth driven by biological factors, including general growth (e.g., weight gain), external changes (e.g., hair loss or breast development), and maturity/ripeness (e.g., menstruation or voice changing).

Motor Development

The development of movement, divided into fine motor skills and gross motor skills.

Sensory Development (Zintuigelijke ontwikkeling)

The process of developing and refining the senses.

Sensomotor Development

The combination and coordination of senses and movements, such as eye-hand coordination.

Cognitive Development

A developmental area comprising thought development, psychomotor skills, language development, and personality development.

Thought Development (Denkontwikkeling)

Cognitive processes that lead to insights, such as memorizing a text (e.g., a New Year's letter), making a puzzle, or remembering a name.

Passive Language

A type of language development where an individual understands what is being said but is unable to respond verbally.

Active Language

A type of language development where an individual both understands the language and can respond verbally.

Personality Development

The development of character and how a person is structured, including their own will, moral development, and sexual development.

Social-Emotional Development

The interconnected areas of emotional and social development where one learns to manage feelings in the context of interactions with others.

Emotional Development

The development of feelings, including consciously experiencing them, naming them, and gaining control over them.

Social Development

Learning how to behave in interactions with others (adults and children) and acquiring social skills, such as learning to share.