Which of the following statements is not true about development?

Development refers to an increase in structure for better and enhanced functioning of organs along with improvements in psychology.

Key Points

It is a wide, complex, and continuous process, thus there are some principles that need to be followed for a better understanding of the concept:

• Development proceeds from general to specific as it can be seen that child first uses hands to pick up objects, but as time passes he uses fingers.
• It is the product of the interaction of both heredity and the environment.

• It is an individualized process as each child develops at different rates (inter-individual) and the rates of development in different areas are different (intra-individual).

• It follows an orderly sequence as it can be observed that development proceeds from head to feet (cephalocaudal sequence) and proximodistal sequence (center to outer parts)

• Interaction of maturation (growth due to biological factors) and learning, etc.
• It is a continuous process that processes till death.

Hence, we conclude that development proceeds from specific to general, is not true about development.