Human Growth and Development HOSA

Human Development

The gradual process in which people change from birth to adulthood

Average lifespan in the 21st century

77 years

Physical Development

The changes in size, body composition, chemical make-up, and height that occurs as humans develop

Gross motor skills

Large muscle movements

Fine motor skills

Small muscle movements

Cognitive Development

The way people change and grow in how they think over the stages of life

Moral decision making

Category of cognitive development; involves problem solving and reasoning

Cognition

All processes involving thinking and knowing

Socio-emotional development

Changes in a person's social relationships, feelings, social skills, self-esteem, and coping mechanisms throughout the stages of life

Developmental perspectives

What people know continues to change; different perspectives on children's stages and other stages in various generations

Development occurs in an ___, ___,___ manner

Development occurs in an orderly, gradual, and interrelated manner (Maslow's pyramid)

Maslow's hierarchy of needs

Physical, security, love and acceptance, esteem, self-actualization

Nature vs. nurture debate

Which is the source of development?

Pedagogy

Parent/teacher directed method of learning

Andragogy

Development is self-directed