Synopsis:
- The mind grows, just like the body grows
- Living beings are in constant interaction with their environment
- Survival depends on maintaining a state of equilibrium between the organism and the environment
- Regulation of behavior in order to continuously adapt to the information flow from the environment
- Cognition, therefore, is but self-regulation
- Cognitive process = a loop of assimilation and accomodation that proceeds in stages
- Progress from simple mental arrangements to complex ones (from literal to abstract)
- Not by gradual evolution but by sudden rearrangements of mental operations
- Cognitive growth = transition from a stage in which the dominant factor is perception, which is irreversible, to a stage in which the dominant is abstract thought, which is reversible
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