Increasing in physical size, amount, value, or maturity.
Growth
The overall process of growing, changing, or improving into a more advanced, mature, or organized state.
Development
The ability to move the hands precisely to coordinate with what the eyes see.
Hand-Eye Coordination
A person’s own assessment of himself or herself based on an evaluation of personal abilities, successes, failures, and comments from other people.
Self-Concept
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The gradual progression of bodily growth, sensory awareness, and the refinement of motor skills.
Physical Development
A continuous, connected series of events.
Sequence
Theory that behaviors can be associated with responses.
Classical Conditioning
The skillful use of the hands and fingers.
Dexterity
Theory based on the belief that individuals’ behavior is determined by forces in the environment that are beyond their control.
Behaviorism
The precise movements of the small muscles in the hands, wrists, fingers, feet, and toes that require coordination between the brain, nerves, and muscles.
Fine-Motor Skills
Involve the large muscles in the torso, arms, and legs to perform whole-body movements like walking, running, and jumping.
Gross-Motor Skills
The ability to sort items by one or more characteristics they have in common.
Classification
The ability to understand that a simple change in the shape of an object does not change its amount.
Conservation
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Family and Consumer Sciences
The mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses.
Cognition
The gradual process by which children learn to understand, express, and manage their emotions.
Social-Emotional Development
The ability to match body movements to coordinate with what is seen.
Visual-Motor Coordination
The ability to understand that relationships between two objects can extend to a third object.
Transitivity
Theory that states that people tend to repeat behaviors that have a positive result or are reinforced.
Operant Conditioning
The growth of a person's ability to think, learn, remember, and solve problems.
Cognitive Development
Systematic frameworks to help understand how humans grow, learn, and change socially, emotionally, cognitively, and morally across their lifespan.
Developmental Theories
Skills used to solve problems, including assessing problems, setting goals, developing a plan to meet goals, and implementing and evaluating solutions.
Executive Strageties
The ability to place objects in order by a characteristic, such as smallest to largest.
Seriation
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