Which statement is false?

Concept:

Development:

• Development is a general term that refers to a number of qualitative and gradual changes.
• Human development is broken down into several phases, including infancy, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.

Explanation:

Development is only a result of maturity:

• Change (from simple to complex) that results from biological growth and development is known as maturation.
• Learning is the process by which experience, education, and training result in a sustained change in behaviour (informal, non-formal, formal).
• Maturation makes learning simpler.
• When a person's biological systems—brain and body—are correctly developed at specific ages, learning can be promoted.
• On the other side, if there is a maturation issue, learning may be hampered.

Thus, the statement, that development is only a result of maturity, is false.

Additional InformationThe development principles are:

1. Development proceeds from general to specific.
2. Most traits are correlated to development.
3. Development is continuous.
4. Development is gradual.
5. Development is sequential.
6. Individual developmental rates vary.
7. People's growth and development are influenced by both environment and heredity.
8. The development's path is predictable.
9. All elements that affect growth are constantly interacting with one another.
10. Development is a product of learning and maturation. 
11. Cephalocaudal principle.
12. The principle of proximodistal development.