### process | development:

Language development
* happens constantly in the toddler classroom.
* is continuous and recursive throughout an individual's life
  - critical because it allows the child to communicate with the outside world
  - essential to higher thinking
  - one of the most important phases of early childhood
  - stressed and stimulated through stories, songs, music, and rhymes
  - the ability to listen, understand, and to speak to others
* meta-goal of instruction across the school day.
* occurs throughout the day in a variety of naturalistic contexts.
* proceeds at a rapid pace during early childhood.
* seems to be driven by nature and nurture.

Larval development
* Most larval development takes months
  - years
* is also temperature-dependent
  - hypermetamorphic, with four distinct phases
* lasts one month after which it pupates.
* occurs by molting the outer skin
  - in coastal waters
* takes place entirely within the egg shell
  - gelatinous egg shell
  - places
  - weeks
* varies in length with temperature and type of food material.

Leadership development
* career long effort rather than simply one training seminar or program.
* central element of effective community development and youth service.
* is an important part of the whole person
  - fundamental to healthy, growing churches
  - important in an organization
  - ultimately personal development
* lifelong process.
* process that extends over many years.
* well-known component of successful organizations.

Mental development
* begins to regress at about the age of two.
* is most often normal
  - usually normal or moderately retarded
* leads to moral development, and influences physical improvement.
* requires an alert mind.

Moral development
* can be a matter of growth.
* is based in universal human rights
  - foundational to conscience formation
* occurs at different levels and at many different locations within the person
  - over time through experience

Motor development
* is both reflexive and protective
  - the most visible of innate abilities
* occurs from birth to age five.

Organizational development
* covers elements of organizational changes and the role of change agents.
* is overall the working toward the improvement of an organization.
* represents an investment in human potential.

Personality development
* depends on work.
* is seen as a continual change process
  - to be seen as psychosexual stages
* occurs through the formation and strengthening of particular habits.

Physical development
* Identify physical developmental characteristics.
* can have an effect on existing and future energy.
* changes a child's ability to do things.
* is how individuals grow
  - necessary for having a healthy life
  - only the first stage of social evolution
  - the way a child's body grows
* raises their self-esteem, builds confidence and channels emotions and energy.
* relies upon good health, nutrition and the safety of the environment.
* requires a healthy body.

Plant development
* depends on cell signaling and transcriptional regulation.
* increases dramatically, with the plant doubling or more in size.
* is the process by which structures originate and mature as a plant grows
  - of a plant changing from one growth stage to another

Political development
* is the starting point for economic and social development.
* recognitioin that interdependence necessary value in modern society.

Prenatal development
* Most prenatal development follows normal patterns.
* involves a delicate program of interrelated embryologic events.
* is also usefully divided into the germinal, embryonic and fetal stages.

Product development
* is development
  - marketing
* is the first stage of the product life cycle
  - incubation stage of the product life cycle
  - what provides each and every employee with a paycheck
* means innovation in technology and design.