PSYC3016 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Behaviorism, Noam Chomsky, Cultural-Historical Psychology
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Lecture 13- cognitive development: chomsky questions piaget"s, piaget assumes there is no innate knowledge but an innate ability/intelligence to gain knowledge, chomsky believe humans do have innate knowledge especially with language development. Vygotsky: all these theories fall prey to a latent or explicit contradiction between what we can measure about human thought and how we ideally conceive of it. Vygotsky"s critique of piaget and history of ideas. Its just like speech: they"re independent, can analyse language and structure of speech which is different to thought. Vygotsky asks us to entertain the limitations of: a psychology that equates language with thought, a psychology in which complex psychological phenomena are demarcated or modularised- all different components are separate from each other. Vygotsky et al, the methodological approach of the wurzburg school- who tried to show that pure thought could be isolated form language, undermines the proper investigation of the problem.
