Lifespan Development: How Development Proceeds

Question 1

Define: discontinuous development

Answer 1

A developmental change that occurs in distinct and separate stags throughout the lifespan, with development of certain abilities having an identifiable start and end point

Question 2

Define: continuous development

Answer 2

A gradual, linear and ongoing developmental change with behaviour in an earlier stage providing the basis of skills and abilities required for a later stage

Question 3

Define: quantitative changes

Answer 3

A change in the amount of thinking, feeling or behaving in development

Question 4

Define: qualitative changes

Answer 4

A change in the quality or kind of thinking, feeling or behaving in development