Lev Vigotsky

Lev Vigotsky

1. Vygotsky has developed a sociocultural approach to cognitive development.

2. Vygotsky states cognitive development stems from social interactions from guided learning within the zone of proximal development as children and their partners co-construct knowledge.

3. For Vygotsky, the environment in which children grow up will influence how they think and what they think about.

4. Children at play are making sense of the world through a process of "inner speech" - that is, they are often talking out loud to themselves. As adults, we lose this capacity because it is not socially sanctioned.

5. Adults transmit their culture's tools of intellectual adaptation that children internalize.

6. Elementary mental functions -Attention -Sensation -Perception -Memory