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Sequence and Styles in Cognitive Development

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The Structuring of Experience

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Theories of cognitive development have been notably more attentive to the general sequence of developmental events than to problems of individual differences. Piaget (Flavell, 1963; Piaget, 1950) in particular has formulated a comprehensive theory in which development is conceptualized as a unilinear course through a sequence of stages. Despite Piaget’s organismic-interactionist framework, his theory provides little room for experience to vary the form of cognitive processes characteristic of each successive stage of development. The environment serves mainly as the stage and props for the child to make a series of predefined cognitive transformations that lead him from stage to stage.

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    Fredric Weizmann

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Fowler, W. (1977). Sequence and Styles in Cognitive Development. In: Užgiris, I.Č., Weizmann, F. (eds) The Structuring of Experience. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8786-6_10

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