Psych 1

Discussion Prompt: Developmental Perspective

Your text discusses the operational reality of development and personality, but does little to address why? The evolutionary perspective would have us simply accept development as a process that has developed over millions of years – but what reason is there for development? What is the goal of development? Why develop personality at all? Why grow old? Why fear death? What do you think? Is there a teleology of development (you may have to look teleology up)?

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