A report on Developmental psychology and Lev Vygotsky
Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky (Лев Семёнович Выго́тский; Леў Сямёнавіч Выго́цкі; November 17 1896 – June 11, 1934) was a Soviet psychologist, known for his work on psychological development in children.
- Lev VygotskyInfluential developmental psychologists from the 20th century include Urie Bronfenbrenner, Erik Erikson, Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Jean Piaget, Barbara Rogoff, Esther Thelen, and Lev Vygotsky.
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Jean Piaget
1 linksSwiss psychologist known for his work on child development.
Swiss psychologist known for his work on child development.
Developmental psychology
A main figure whose ideas contradicted Piaget's ideas was the Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky.
Cognition
1 linksCognition refers to "the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses".
Cognition refers to "the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses".
Jean Piaget was one of the most important and influential people in the field of developmental psychology.
His work can be compared to Lev Vygotsky, Sigmund Freud, and Erik Erikson who were also great contributors in the field of developmental psychology.
Learning
0 linksProcess of acquiring new understanding, knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, attitudes, and preferences.
Process of acquiring new understanding, knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, attitudes, and preferences.
There is evidence for human behavioral learning prenatally, in which habituation has been observed as early as 32 weeks into gestation, indicating that the central nervous system is sufficiently developed and primed for learning and memory to occur very early on in development.
Lev Vygotsky agrees that play is pivotal for children's development, since they make meaning of their environment through playing educational games.