There is a dilemma within many
psychologists, if to name development as a continuous or a
discontinuous process.
- Psychologists who agree with the
continuous version, agree to the fact that development is a gradual
change that is supposed to happen throughout life span such that
the earlier stages form the basis of personality or skills that
will be seen in the later stages of life.
- Some psychologists believe that
development is a discontinuous process, saying that different
behaviour occurs at different stages in life and the fact that the
way of thinking present in each stage are definitive to that stage
itself. Also, that certain ways of thinking develop suddenly in
life.