Lev Vygotsky

Question 1

What was the main difference between Piaget and Vygotsky?

Answer 1

Vygotsky emphasised the importance of relationships and interactions between children and more knowledgeable peers and adults

Question 2

What did Vygotsky believe in regards to children’s cognitive understandings?

Answer 2

Vygotsky believed that children’s cognitive understandings were enriched and deepened when they were scaffolded by parents, teachers or peers

Question 3

Vygotsky did not see the child as a solitary discoverer if knowledge, what did he see?

Answer 3

Vygotsky saw the child learning within social interactions with others

Question 4

What did Vygotsky emphasise the role of in the development of thinking processes?

Answer 4

Social interactions involve communicating so Vygotsky emphasised the role of language in the development of the child’s thinking processes.

Question 5

What was Vygotsky’s belief in regards to thinking in concepts?

Answer 5

vygotsky believed that thinking in concepts was not possible without verbal thinking. While thinking and language develop independently, they are merged once language is developed to create verbal thought.

Question 6

What happens to speech and thought over time?

Answer 6

Speech and thought changes over time and becomes internalised

Question 7

What does Vygotsky see in regards to the child’s ability to think logically?

Answer 7

Vygotsky sees the child’s ability to think logically as developing in stages

Question 8

What are Vygotsky’s four different stages of conceptual development?

Answer 8

1. Thinking in unordered heaps
2. Thinking in complex stage
3. Thinking in concepts stage
4. thinking in true concepts stage