Questions about the extent to which maladaptive habits learned in childhood can be overcome in adulthood are most directly relevant to the issue of

Options missing:

A. continuity or stages.

B. fluid or crystallized intelligence.

C. stability or change.

D. nature or nurture.

c. stability or change.

Explanation:

Developmental psychology is a scientific approach which aims to explain growth, change and consistency though the lifespan. Developmental psychology looks at how thinking, feeling, and behavior change throughout a person’s life.

Stability might be disturbed either by sudden events or gradual changes that accumulate over time. Explanations of stability and change in natural or designed systems can be constructed by examining the changes over time and processes at different scales, including the atomic scale.

Heterotypic stability refers to the psychological coherence of an individual's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors across development.

Stability-Change Debate. The stability-change debate describes the developmental psychology discussion about whether personality traits that are present in an individual at birth remain constant or change throughout the life span.

This capacity for change is called plasticity.