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Vygotsky's theories stress the fundamental role of _______________ in the development of cognition
Social interaction
One of the distinctions between the two theories is that.....
(Vygotsky does not refer to stages in the way that Piaget does).
Unlike Piaget's notion that childrens' development must necessarily precede their learning, Vygotsky argued that.....
social learning tends to precede development.
Idealism is the view that ......
....the mind is all that exists, and that the whole physical world we perceive to be around us is just a construction of our mind.
Name a reason why cognitive science is such a young science...
its subject matter, the mind, is so ill-defined.
Before Piaget’s work, the common assumption in psychology was that
...children are merely less competent thinkers than adults.
For Vygotsky the human being is characterized by a ....
Primary Sociability
Who disagreed with the idea that intelligence was a fixed trait, and regarded cognitive development as a process which occurs due to biological maturation and interaction with the environment.
Piaget and Vygotsky
The belief that the mind is simply part of the physical universe is called
Physicalism
The cognitive revolution in psychology was a revolution of what decade?
50´s
Is it true that Piaget's theory proposes gradual stages of development, marked by quantitative complex differences ?
Nope!!! It proposes discrete stages of development, marked by qualitative differences.
Interaction with adults that convey the cultural messages of their groups is known as
Asymmetrical Interaction
Who Pwas employed at the Binet Institute in the 1920s, where his job was to develop French versions of questions on English intelligence tests.
Piaget
What's the basis of neural dependency argument of the mind?
The existence of our mind, and its nature, seems to be a direct function of the nature of our brain.
If scientific psychology were to succeed, what types of concepts must be included in the psychological dialogue?
mentalistic concepts would have to integrate and explain the behavior
Is it true for Piaget that children construct an understanding of the world around them, then experience discrepancies between what they already know and what they discover in their environment?
Indeed!!!
Examples of types of Higher mental functions are....
Deliberate Attention
Logical Memory
Verbal and conceptual thought
Complex emotions
Vygotsky believed children will only learn when they are ready, whereas Piaget believed that development could be accelerated to an extend, with correct scaffolding and within the Zone of Proximal Development (interaction with more knowledgeable ones) means that....
we misunderstand the essence of both theories...
Ockham’s Razor states that ...
...when two theories explain some phenomenon equally well, then the simpler theory is preferred
Jerry Bruner, Jackie Goodenough and George Austin published.....
A Study of Thinking
A rooted concept in Piaget's thought was Apriorism; the notion that...
Mental structures are anterior to experience
According to Vygotsky the transmission of knowledge of culture is carried out through ...
language, which is the main vehicle of the development process and is what decisively influences cognitive development.
Three coincidences of both theories are...
The Conservation of Energy Argument states that...
If the mind is non- physical, interacts with the physical body, then energy would not be conserved (e.g. me ‘willing’ to raise my hand would introduce energy). But, since energy does get conserved, the mind must not be non- physical, i.e. it is physical.
Miller argues that at least six disciplines participated in the cognitive revolution... which ones?
psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, computer science, anthropology, and philosophy.