Assignment task: The continuity-discontinuity issue is defined as the debate about the extent to which development involves gradual, cumulative change (continuity) or distinct stages (discontinuity). Developmentalists generally acknowledge that development is not all nature or all nurture, not all stability or all change, and not all continuity or all discontinuity."
Understanding the three processes of biological, cognitive, and socioemotional development that occur during the periods of infancy, early childhood, and middle childhood. What are examples of continuity and discontinuity that arise during any of these three periods of development?
State one takeaway from your new learning about how your identified process can continuously influence one's development.
Identify and explain one of the biological processes that occur in one of the development periods infancy that is influenced by "continuity." State why you think the developing process is continuous as one age. State one takeaway from your new learning about how your identified process can continuously influence one's development.
Identify and explain a second one of the socioemotional processes that occur in one of the development periods of middle childhood that is influenced by "discontinuity" or can change during lifespan development. In this paragraph, state why you think the developing process is discontinuous as one age. State one takeaway from your new learning about how your identified process can continuously influence one's development.