20 Questions
According to Vygotsky, what did the experiments of H. Volkelt and W. Eliasberg demonstrate?
Children who could only name separate objects were able to perform a representation of the entire situation accurately when asked to act it out.
What did the works of cognitive psychology on concepts fall down on, according to the text?
The works of cognitive psychology fall down on the ground of testing written language skills rather than the concept itself.
Who was the first to challenge the prejudice that perception can only occur by the joining together of arbitrarily small chunks or pixels?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was the first to challenge this prejudice.
What event influenced Vygotsky's transition from a student of aesthetics to a teacher and psychologist?
The Russian Revolution and the plight of children orphaned by the Wars of Intervention influenced Vygotsky's transition.
Where was Lev Semenovich Vygotsky raised, and what were some of his early intellectual pursuits?
Vygotsky was raised in Gomel, within the Jewish Pale in Tsarist Russia. He was a brilliant student, reading avidly in history and philosophy, and running a reading group amongst his school friends around issues of Jewish history.
According to Vygotsky, how does perception begin its development in infants and children?
From an initial awareness of an undifferentiated whole, gradually becoming aware of a more and more differentiated whole, eventually learning to pick out individual objects.
Contrast Vygotsky's view of perception development with the 'bottom-up' notion held by psychologists of his time and cognitive psychologists today.
Vygotsky believed in a developmental process from undifferentiated whole to awareness of individual objects, while psychologists of his time and cognitive psychologists held a 'bottom-up' notion that perception must begin from a disorganised confusion of individual stimuli.
What was W. Stern's four-stage schema for the development of perception based on the experiment?
Object, quality, relation, action
Describe the well-known experiment used to validate the 'bottom-up' notion of perception development.
A child is shown a painting and asked to tell the researcher what they see.
What was the traditional belief about perception development held by psychologists of Vygotsky's time and cognitive psychologists today?
Perception must begin from a disorganised confusion of individual stimuli, gradually joining them together to build up images of individual objects and their relation.
According to Vygotsky's observations, how does perception begin its development in infants and children?
From an initial awareness of an undifferentiated whole, gradually becoming aware of a more and more differentiated whole
What was the traditional belief about perception development held by psychologists of Vygotsky's time and cognitive psychologists today?
Perception must begin from a disorganised confusion of individual stimuli, gradually joining the 'pixels' together to build up images of individual objects
What was W. Stern's four-stage schema for the development of perception based on the experiment?
Object, quality, relation, action
What did Vygotsky observe about the development of perception in infants and children?
From an initial awareness of an undifferentiated whole, gradually becoming aware of a more and more differentiated whole
How did the psychologists of Vygotsky's time and cognitive psychologists view the development of perception?
'Bottom-up' notion, starting from disorganised confusion of individual stimuli
Who was the first to challenge the prejudice that perception can only occur by the joining together of arbitrarily small chunks or pixels?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What event influenced Vygotsky's transition from a student of aesthetics to a teacher and psychologist?
The Russian Revolution
What did the experiments of H. Volkelt and W. Eliasberg demonstrate according to the text?
Children's ability to bring their perception into conscious awareness
Where was Lev Semenovich Vygotsky raised, and what were some of his early intellectual pursuits?
Gomel; reading avidly in history and philosophy
According to Vygotsky, how does perception begin its development in infants and children?
By their ability to describe what is happening in words
Test your knowledge of Lev Vygotsky's ideas on the development of concepts, as discussed in Chapters 13 & 14 of the book 'Concepts: A Critical Approach' by Andy Blunden (2011). Explore Vygotsky's observations on infants and children's perception and their progression towards differentiating objects.
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