Development which proceeds from ‘centre to the periphery’ is known as:

Developmental psychology names two directional principles that describe how physical growth and motor control spread across the body: growth can proceed along the head-to-tail axis, or along the central-axis-to-extremities axis. Each principle describes a distinct direction of maturation, not a rate of growth or a teaching sequence.

The question describes development that proceeds from the 'centre to the periphery' — that is, from the central axis of the body (spine, trunk, shoulders) outward toward the extremities (hands, fingers). This is exactly the direction the Proximodistal principle describes: control over the trunk and shoulders is established before fine control of the hands and fingers.

• Cephalocaudal development proceeds from the head downward toward the feet — a head-to-tail axis, not a centre-to-periphery axis — so head and neck control appears before control of the legs.

• In curriculum theory (e.g., Bruner's spiral curriculum), 'spiral' refers to revisiting the same topic across stages with increasing depth — a teaching sequence, not a direction of bodily growth.

• In Piaget's theory, 'circular reactions' describe an infant repeating an action to reproduce an interesting sensorimotor effect — a type of infant behaviour, not a direction of bodily growth.

Therefore, development that proceeds from centre to periphery is called Proximodistal development.