Psychology essay

Hailey Hinkle

Walker

AP Psychology

4/28/08

Continuity vs. discontinuity is the debate about life having evenly dispersed increments or the idea that life has set requirements met during a set age of the individual’s life. A continuous example would be a smooth process in a person’s life that did not have an huge jumps of discovery. An example of discontinuity would be a step in which an individual must overcome before they can move on to the next task in their life. The cognitive development of a person is the intelligence factor brought in by Piaget with the idea that we are different from animals by our ability to gain abstract knowledge. Personality development would be along the lines of the Erikson by trying to discover who you are through different steps. The good things about continuity would be that everyone individual would be able to go through changes, however not everyone is will to except those changes. The positive side of discontinuity would be the idea that anyone personally can develop their own life but they would be loosing their childhood if they kept going at a younger age.