1. Adaptation

• Schemes
• Assimilation
• Accommodation
• Equilibration
• Organization

2. Sensorimotor stage

2.1. Substage 1

• reflexes

2.2. Substage 2

• Primary circular reactions

2.3. Substage 3

• Secondary circular reactions

2.4. Substage 4

• Means-end sequencing
Physical causality
Object permanence
AB search error

2.5. Substage 5

• Tertiary circular reactions

2.6. Substage 6

• Symbolic processing
• Mental representations

3. Preoperational stage

3.1. Egocentrism & animism

3.2 Centration

3.3 Appearance as reality

4. Concrete operational stage

4.1 Mental operations

• Conservation
• Decentration
• Reversibility
• logic examples

5. Formal operational stage

• Hypothetical reasoning
• Deductive reasoning
• Abstract thought
• GRE questions

6. Evaluating Piaget's Theory

6.1 Applying Piaget's Theory

6.2 Criticisms of the Theory

6.2.1. underestimation of children's abilities, language

6.2.2. regularities of the physical world

• object permanence (Baillargeon)
• AB error
• physical reasoning, understanding properties

6.2.3. mental representation

• deferred imitation
• beginnings of categorization
• problem solving

6.2.4. consistency in performance

6.2.5. training

7. Beyond Piaget's Theory

7.1 Neo-Piagetian Approaches

7.2 The child as theorist

7.3 Vygotsky's Theory of Cognitive Development

• Zone of proximal development
• scaffolding
• private speech

Metacognition

• Thought about thoughts 
• Theory of mind

8. Information Processing theory

8.1 Introduction - brains vs. computers vs. neural mechanisms

8.2 Comparing Piaget with information processing theory

• 4 advantages to information processing
• 3 limitations to information processing

8.3 Two models of information processing

• Store model
• Levels-of-processing model

8.4 How information processing changes with development

• improved strategies
• improved hardware
• improved inhibitory processes
• increased automatic processing
• increased speed of processing

8.5 Developmental theories of information processing

8.5.1. Case's neo-Piagetian theory

8.5.2. Connectionism

8.5.3. Spiegel's model of strategy choice