cognitive development (redirected from Theory of cognitive development)

development /de·vel·op·ment/ (de-vel´up-mint) the process of growth and differentiation.developmen´tal

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cognitive development  the development of intelligence, conscious thought, and problem-solving ability that begins in infancy.

psychosexual development 

1. development of the individual's sexuality as affected by biological, cultural, and emotional influences from prenatal life onward throughout life.

2. in psychoanalysis, libidinal maturation from infancy through adulthood (including the oral, anal, and genital stages).

psychosocial development  the development of the personality, and the acquisition of social attitudes and skills, from infancy through maturity.

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cognitive development,

the developmental process by which an infant becomes an intelligent person, acquiring knowledge with growth and improving his or her ability to think, learn, reason, and abstract. Jean Piaget demonstrated the orderly sequence of this process from early infancy through childhood. See also psychosexual development, psychosocial development.