There are at least two major approaches to understanding cognitive change during adolescence. One is the constructivist view of cognitive development. Based on the work of Piaget, it takes a quantitative, state-theory approach, hypothesizing that adolescents' cognitive improvement is relatively sudden and drastic. The second is the information-processing perspective, which derives from the study of artificial intelligence and attempts to explain cognitive development in terms of the growth of specific components of the thinking process.
What view towards cognitive development during adolescence did Piaget take? Did Piaget believe that cognitive improvement was sudden and drastic or slow and steadied? Besides the information-processing perspective, what is the other major approach to understanding cognitive change during adolescence? The information-processing perspective towards cognitive development derives from the study of what?