PSY312H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cognitive Development, Frontal Lobe, Cultural-Historical Psychology
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Social contexts: other people contribute to cognitive development. Zone of proximal development: tasks child cannot do alone but can learn with help of more skilled partners: you cannot learned language unless ur exposed to it, you learn something by being exposed to it. You start out basic and go on to more complex things. Vyotsky: born in russia (same year at piaget: died in his 30s from tb, he was a reflection of his own society, his idea were not properly embraced . jewish. Social context influences what we think and how we think. Lower: reactive attention, associated memory, sensory motor thought innate and shared with other higher animals. Higher: focused attention, deliberate memory, and symbolic thought ( i. e. language) specific to humans: language plays a central role in mental development. According to v. language is the mechanism of thinking. Language is the means through which info is passed from one generation to another.
