DECALAGE

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Nugent, Pam M.S.
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Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development about the invariant order that cognitive developments occur in. See horizontal or vertical decalage.

DECALAGE: "Decalage is a French word meaning an interval or shift."

Related Psychology Terms

  1. TERTIARY CIRCULAR
  2. SENSORIMOTOR INTELLIGENCE
  3. INTUITIVE STAGE
  4. FORMAL OPERATIONS
  5. NEGATION
  6. DECENTRATION
  7. STATES VERSUS TRANSFORMATIONS
  8. SECONDARY CIRCULAR REACTION
  9. SENSORIMOTOR STAGE
  10. PIAGET, JEAN
Cite this page: Nugent, Pam M.S., "DECALAGE," in PsychologyDictionary.org, April 7, 2013, https://psychologydictionary.org/decalage/ (accessed June 28, 2017).
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