Human Development - the process of enlarging people's freedoms and opportunities and improving their well-being., Physical development - one of the many domains of infant and toddler development., Gross-motor skills - the abilities required to control the muscles of the body for large movements such as crawling, walking, jumping, running, and more., Fine-motor skills - reaching, grasping and manipulating objects with your hands., Cognition - the mental processes that take place in the brain, including thinking, attention, language, learning, memory and perception., Cognitive development - he development of the ability to think and reason., Socio-emotional development - how children start to understand who they are, what they are feeling and what to expect when interacting with others, heredity - the sum of all biological processes by which particular characteristics are transmitted from parents to their offspring., Enviornment - a multidisciplinary social science that examines the relationship between human beings and our surroundings., nature versus nature debate - refers to the relative importance of genetics and environment in shaping human behavior and development, continuity - uninterrupted duration or continuation especially without essential change., discontinuity - people pass through stages of life that are qualitatively different from each other, pedagogy - the strategy of how educators teach, in practice and theory., andragogy - the method and practice of teaching adult learners,

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