1. Introduction
1.1. Main concepts and perspectives on development
1.2. Complexity and dynamics of development and learning processes
2. Adolescent development and educational implications
2.1. Cognitive and sociocognitive development: abstraction and formal operations (Piaget), adolescent egocentrism (Elkind), social cognition (Selman)
2.2. Psychosocial development: factors and processes, identity development (Erikson) and statuses (Marcia)
3. Cognition, learning and teaching
3.1. Cognition and learning theories: Piaget, Bruner, Ausubel, Gagné e Novak
3.2. Learning conditions and processes. Motivation, atention, memory and information processing. Self-efficacy (Bandura), attributions (Weiner), learning styles (Kolb) and metacognitive processes (Flavell)

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