This paper deals with four major issues in developmental psychology: the preservation
of structures over time, the mechanisms of change in development, the psychological
growth functions for emergent competences, and the determinants of individual
variation in psychological development. We emphasize the role of the maturation of
the central nervous system on the emergence of cognitive competences during early
development and question the traditional doctrine on the preservation of the
products of early experience.
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