Dr. babineaux asks a sample of 8-year-old children to complete measures of several personality traits. when the same children are 14 years old, she asks them to complete measures of the same traits. dr. babineaux then computes correlation coefficients between the two sets of measures. her results are most relevant to the discussion.

The right answer is Stages or Continuity. When we talk about development, scientists have always debated whether the development can be divided into stages, this indicates that the skills have milestones marked by the acquisition of new skills, or if the development is a continuous process in which the child continuously acquires new abilities.