PSYC 4010 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Lev Vygotsky, Functional Psychology, Antithesis
15 Apr 2013
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Dialectic between 3 components: thesis, antithesis, synthesis. Thesis antithesis synthesis thesis (repeat) Whole is greater than the sum of the parts. 3 characteristics instrumental (modifies the stimuli), cultural (language and how it changes the way they learn) and genetic (higher order functions develop from lower order functions) Qualitative distinct stages: stable conflict/crisis transformation (repeat) Piaget vs. vygotsky little scientist vs. little apprentice. Relation that is primary and the entities in transaction cannot be understood in the absence of relationship. Interaction stay the same elements before; transaction there was change (between environment and person); mind is always in transaction (open system) Concepts: transform through stages, but not through levels. Moving from one psychophysical state to another, describable on different levels by different specialists. Causation flows between these states and not between the levels of description . Causation is flowed through states, not levels. Concerned with stability and maintenance of equilibrium; theory was development in nature.
