alleryA 'staircase' model of development assumes changes that are:
Arandom and varied
Bunrelated to age
Csudden and isolated
Dordered and cumulative
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. ordered and cumulative
1. In a staircase model, changes happen in a specific order and build on each other.
2. The 'kaleidoscope' model instead sees change with no uniform sequence or end point.
3. Educational psychologists have tended to favour the general, sequential staircase view.
_Source: Seifert & Sutton, Educational Psychology 2e (CC BY 3.0), Ch 3 Student Development, "Why development matters", p. 42_
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