PSY312H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Vyg River, Lev Vygotsky, Cultural-Historical Psychology
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His focus was how the community effects thinking. He studied during the turn of the century: communism was happing at this time, this is not a coincidence. A communist revolution was occurring and clearly he was being influenced by this. This also explains why vyg and piaget were not aware of each other (there were on opposite ends of the political world) Piaget was in democracy and rigid stages. His ideas conformed to the social movement, but he was larger ignored because he was: it wasn"t until after his death that his ideas were actually recognized. When cog dev looks like form birth, to infancy, to childhood, to middle childhood to adolescence. Social interactions influence cog dev: the father of this is vygotsky. He said you cannot get cognitive development without social interactions. Piaget didn"t really say this, he said they might involve social interaction but he really confused on maturation.
