APSY1030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Lev Vygotsky, Cultural-Historical Psychology, Intersubjectivity
14 Mar 2016
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Writing during soviet era, stalin, make science work for the people. Vygotsky looking for how children contribute to social interaction of the times. Learning leads development: stimulate development through providing right instruction. Complex mental processes begin as social activities. Development cannot be separated form its social context. Social context influences how we think as well as what we think about. Vygotsky viewed it as foundation for all higher cognitive processes. Helps guide behavior: used more when tasks are difficult, after errors, or when confused. Gradually becomes more silent: children with learning and behavior problems use longer. Zpd: distance between a person"s actual developmental level as determined by independent problem solving, and the higher level of development that could be achieved under the guidance of an adult or more knowledgeable other (mko) Lower: reactive attention, associative memory, sensorimotor thought. Higher: focused attention, deliberate memory, symbolic thinking. A process in which two individuals reach a shared understanding of a work.
