Explain the meaning of (a) nature and nurture, (b) continuity and discontinuity, and (c) universal and context-specific development.
Also, explain why current life-span developmentalists do not adopt extreme positions on the three issues.
After you identify the nature of the issues of nature and nurture, continuity and discontinuity, and stability and change, think about anextremeposition for each.
Work through the process of disproving such drastic viewpoints with reasoning and examples, and present your explanation as to why such extremes are not supported by life-span developmentalists.