Vygotsky's Stages of Intellectual Development Evaluation Flashcards

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Support

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Roazzi and Bryant offer strong evidence for the ZPD.
They found that 4-5 year old’s performed better on a number of sweets challenge when working with peers
This demonstrated that children can develop more advanced reasoning skills when working with more expert people
Supports validity of ZPD as a developmental concept

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Contradiction

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Not all individual differences are acknowledged

Both of vygotsky and piaget assume that processes of learning are universal

But not all children may learn effectively in a social situation

Personality of learner and style of processing may differ and need to be taken into account in explaining their cognitive development

Vygotsky may not be helpful in understanding the learning processes of every child

The idea may not be applicable to all

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Alternative

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Piaget’s stages

He believed that language is the key to cognitive development than the result

He also believes that individuals go through ages + stages

Suggests each child will progress through the same stages at relatively the same time

Direct contrast to Vygotsky - may mean his theory may not fully explain development

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Practical Applications

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Van Keer + Verhaeghe
Found that 7 year old’s tutored by 10 year old’s - in addition to whole class teaching

Progressed further in than a control group who only had class teaching

Suggests that he was correct in assuming more able people can enhance development

Supports validity + udefulness of the theory

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Issues and Debates

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Cross cultural research

Gredler pointed to primitive counting system as an example of how culture can limit cognitive development

Counting is done by starting on the thumb and ending at 29

This system makes it difficult to add and subtract large numbers

A limiting factor for cognitive development in this culture

This suggests that learning can impact development and whether higher mental functions can be developed

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