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Chapter 6 Understanding Human Development.
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Chapter 6 Understanding HumanDevelopment
Growth - correct answer-refers to physical changes in size, such as gains in height
and weight.
Development - correct answer-the gradual increase in skills and abilities that occurs
over a lifetime.
Physical Development - correct answer-advances in physical abilities.
Gross Motor Skills - correct answer-physical skills involving larger muscles of the
body, such as the legs, hips, back, and arms.
Fine Motor Skills - correct answer-physical skills involving smaller muscles in the
body, such as the hands and wrists.
Cognition - correct answer-all of the actions or processes involving thought and
knowledge.
Cognitive Development - correct answer-the way people change and improve in their
ability to think and learn throughout life.
Social-Emotional Development - correct answer-development that includes the areas
of relationships and feelings.
Sequence - correct answer-a consistent step-by-step pattern that consistently follows
one after another, as in development.
Developmental Theories - correct answer-comprehensive explanations, based on
research, about why people act and behave the way they do and how they change
over time.
Behaviorism - correct answer-a theory based on the belief that individuals' behavior
is determined by forces in the environment that are beyond their control.
Classical Conditional - correct answer-the theory that behaviors can be associated
with responses.
Operant Conditioning - correct answer-the theory that states that people tend to
repeat behaviors that have a positive result or are reinforced.
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