PSY312H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Lev Vygotsky, Cognitive Development, Syas River
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Vygotsky born in same year as piaget, russia and switz. His take was that it depended on social context which the person existed in. Cognitive development was not possible without a social context. Maturation-piaget"s stages had to pass through to take on new tasks. Maturation in social interaction, vygotsky argued that it was the collective people around that caused the development of the individual. Individual could not develop unless they had interactions with other people that directed them. Reflection of his own society had the time, ideas were not embraced by soviet union because of his background, jewish. Zpd- tasks child cannot do alone but can learn with help of more skilled partners. This theory he advanced, core of cognitive development, learning by example, from other people. Ie/cant learn language until you are exposed to it. Child has to be exposed to it socially, starts out simple and gets complicated, called scaffolding.
