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perspectives, assimilation and accommodation were proposed by Piaget as the

basic instrument that makes all cognitive changes. Some researchers who adopted

it have focussed on four change instruments that play big roles in cognitive

development such as automatization, encoding, generalization and strategy

construction.

Ways of individual differences such as questions intuitively related to aspects ofintelligence, language, memory, reasoning and problem solving were gauged using

first Binet-Simon test and later revised by Terman on the assumption that not all

children of a given age think and reason at the same level. Measure of infants

information processing has revealed considerable continuity between intelligence in

infancy and intelligence in later childhood. Large majority of research on

intelligence and other areas of cognitive development focuses on individual

childrens behaviour.

Changes in the size, structure, and connection patterns of the brain during the

course of a childs development deeply contribute to changes in childs thinking.

Quantitatively and qualitatively, these occurs in three levels such as changes in the

brain as a whole, changes in particular structure within the brain, and changes in

billions of cells that make up the brain ( neurons ). Some researchers have

suggested that the early surplus of synapses is related to infants and toddlers

acquiring certain kinds of capabilities more effectively than adults.

Social world contribution includes people, artefacts such as books, televisions,

computers, automobiles, etc. Others are cultural heritage like reading, writing,

mathematics, computer programming, video game playing, etc. and the many

values that guide strategies and problem solving efforts in certain directions

(speeds, accuracy, neatness, truthfulness, etc. that gives overarching context of

cognitive development.