CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Continuity in a developmental theory implies a development without levels or without discernible pauses. However, all developmental psychologists would disavow such a notion as irrelevant to their research.

Detailed explanation-2: -Continuity Theory holds that, in making adaptive choices, middle-aged and older adults attempt to preserve and maintain existing internal and external structures; and they prefer to accomplish this objective by using strategies tied to their past experiences of themselves and their social world.

Detailed explanation-3: -The continuity view says that change is gradual. Children become more skillful in thinking, talking or acting much the same way as they get taller. The discontinuity view sees development as more abrupt-a succession of changes that produce different behaviors in different age-specific life periods called stages.

Detailed explanation-4: -The discontinuity approach considers development as occurring in distinct and abrupt changes, with an emphasis on qualitative experiences that are different at each stage. ‘Discontinuity’ in the developmental process refers to new ways of understanding the world that emerge during the process of development.