Developmental Psychology

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4 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Developmental Psychology.

• Cognitive development — The age- and experience-related transformation of perception, memory, language, reasoning, conceptual understanding and executive control across childhood and beyond.
• Domain-general learning — A developmental account in which broad learning mechanisms operate across content areas, rather than relying primarily on innate modules specialized for particular domains.
• Information processing theory — A cognitive-development perspective that models perception, attention, memory, strategy and response as coordinated stages or resources whose capacity, speed and organization change with development.
• Scale error — A developmental behavior in which a young child seriously attempts an action appropriate to an object's full-size counterpart despite the miniature object's incompatible physical scale.