7.1

Do our early personality traits persist through life, or do we become different persons as we age?

• Nature vs Nurture
• Continuity/Stages
• Stability/Change

Is developmental a gradual, continuous process or a sequence of separate stages?

• nature vs nurture
• continuity/stages
• stability/change

How do genetic inheritance and experience influence our behavior?

• nature vs nurture
• continuity/stages
• stability/change

•Study people of different ages at the same point in time

• longitudinal
• cross-sectional

•Study the same group of people over time

• longitudinal
• cross-sectional