DEVELOPMENTAL LEARNING

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Meaning:

Learning that takes place as a normal part of cognitive development

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("developmental learning" is a kind of...):

acquisition; learning (the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "developmental learning"):

accommodation (in the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality)

assimilation (in the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance)