PSY312H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Open Classroom, Frontal Lobe
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Argued that cognitive development is not possible without a social context. Tasks child cannot do alone but can learn with help of more skilled partners. You cannot learn language unless you are exposed to it by other people. May need to be an exposure to an experience, piaget argued there are stages, but not until that child is ready. Collective, people around, that caused the development of the individual. Had to have interaction with other people that cause the development of the person. Very insistent that it was the collective that directed cognitive development. Reflection of his own society, however, his ideas were not widely embraced in the soviet union because of his jewish background. Video: very sophisticated skill, frontal lobe function, other species can"t do this well, human can do this by 4 or 5. Triangles together, circles together (categorization: colour, size, shape) Vgotsky"s discovered in 60s and 70s in the west, continue to be applied in classrooms in.
