| GENETIC PSYCHOLOGY Model(Development stages) |
COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY Model(Information processing) |
| Priority is given to invariants’ construction, by means of a progressive generalization and abstraction starting from the subject’s experiences |
Priority is given to the analysis of specific tasks, each involving and combining knowledge, procedures, algorithms and routines. |
| Central placement of common thinking schemes and rules for the diversity of situations |
Central placement of diverse manners of problem solving, some similar |
| Structuralist point of view |
Functionalist point of view |
| Cognition studied based on a general model of intelligence, according to the equilibrium mechanism |
Cognition studied based on local models in which memory and its processes are mainly involved |
| A priori postulated transfer |
Scepticism regarding transfer |
