This work continues the exploration of cognitive functions, initiated in the book Mental imagery in the child. It studies the memories of events of a logical, causal and spatial nature, thus highlighting the relationships between memory and the development of concepts.
Continuing with the book series Que sais-je? inaugurated by PUF publishing house with the publication of The Psychology of the Child in 1966, this book synthesizes the different trends and contributions of structuralism to scientific research, both in the field of human sciences and natural sciences. Written at the height of structuralism, Piaget defends genetic constructivism while confronting it with the formalist structuralism of Lévi-Strauss.