CLEP Theories of Development

Discontinuity or ___ theories

Discontinuity or stage theories say that development progresses through a series of stages where

Continuity theories say that development is a

With ___ theories, changes come in small steps or incremements. Skills and behaviors improve but do not change qualitively.

Compare Child Developemtn to Life Span Development

Jean Piaget argued that all children progress through the same stages of cognitive development in the same order and at the same approximate age. Hence, for Piaget there was a ___ of cognitive development.

Bronfenbrenner has created an ___ systems theory of development that describes various contexts in which development takes place and how the reciprocal relationship between the child and the people in these sociocultural contexts affect the child's development.

Psychologists who are for the context-specific development point out that there are differences in development between people from