Theory 1
Self-directed learning.
What is andragogy?
A gradual process through which humans change from birth to adulthood.
What is human development?
Physical tasks involving large muscle movements such as crawling, walking, and jumping.
What is gross-motor skills?
People who freely express their thoughts, ideas, and feelings respectfully and allow others to do the same.
What is assertive communicator?
Quality that involves organizing, guiding, motivating, and taking responsibility for a team.
What is leadership?
Traits that people are born with or have genetically acquired.
What is heredity?
All of a person's surroundings and the people in them.
What is environment?
The changes in the way a person's social relationships, feelings, social skills, self-esteem, gender identity, and ways of coping with situations develop from birth through older adulthood.
What is socio-emotional development?
Work together.
Things that are most important to a person.
What are priorities?
Teacher- or parent-directed learning.
What is pedagogy?
The changes in size, body composition, chemical make-up, and height that occur as humans develop from birth through older adulthood.
What is physical development?
All of the actions or processes involving thinking and knowing.
What is cognition?
Compromises
What is concessions?
Strategy that includes defining and analyzing a problem, setting and implementing goals, and monitoring and evaluating the plan.
What is problem solving process?
The process of development, spurred by abrupt changes.
What is discontinuity?
The changes in how people perceive, sense, organize, memorize, recall, reason, problem solve, and imagine that occur as humans develop from birth through older adulthood.
What is cognitive development?
Asking questions and restating ideas to discover the true message of the sender.
What is active listening?
Way of looking closely at a situation and weighing possible outcomes before determining a solution.
What is critical thinking?
Confirm
What is validate?
The debate between genetic and environmental influences on development.
What is nature versus nurture debate?
Refers to developmental changes that are relatively slow, but steady.
What is continuity?
Physical tasks involving small muscle movements such as cutting with scissors, typing on a keyboard, and writing with a pen or pencil.
What is fine-motor skills?
Ability to identify with and share another person's feelings.
What is empathy?
A discrepancy between verbal and nonverbal messages.
What is mixed messages?