Cognitive development

Jean Piaget

Stage

Mental structure

Cognitive developmental approach

Maturation

Schemes

Assimilation

Accommodation

Sensorimotor stage

Pre operational stage

Concrete operations

Mental operations

Formal operations

Pendulum problem

Hypothetical deductive reasoning

Abstract thinking

Complex thinking

Metacognition

Individual differences

Post formal thinking

Pragmatism

Dialectical thought

Reflective judgement

Multiple thinking

relativism

commitment

info-processing approach

discontinuous

continuous

componential approach

selective attention

divided attention

short term memory

long term memory

working memory

mnemonic devices

automacity

reductionism

critical thinking

behavioral decision theory

organizational core

social cognition

perspective taking

mutual perspective taking