PSYC 335 Lecture 6: Psych 335 Sept 23

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 335
• Professor: Bain Jody

Document Summary

Theories stress fundamental role of social interaction in development of cognition. Learning is a necessary and universal aspect of the process of developing culturally organized, speci cally human psych fxn. More emphasis on culture affecting/shaping cog dev (piaget argued universal) Does not refer to stages (piaget does) Places considerably more emphasis on social factors contributing to cog dev (piaget criticized for underestimating this) Social > cognition (vygotsky) vs cognition > social (piaget) Enviro in which children grow up will in uence how they think & what they think about. Places more (and different) emphasis on the role of language in cog dev; dev results from an internalization of language. Piaget language depends on thought for its dev (thought > language) Thought and language are initially separate systems from beginning of life, merging at around 3 producing verbal thought (inner speech) Loud > talk quietly to self (subvocalized) > inner thought.