Vygotsky's Development of Concepts Quiz

Children who could only name separate objects were able to perform a representation of the entire situation accurately when asked to act it out.

The works of cognitive psychology fall down on the ground of testing written language skills rather than the concept itself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was the first to challenge this prejudice.

<p>The Russian Revolution and the plight of children orphaned by the Wars of Intervention influenced Vygotsky's transition.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>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.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>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.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>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.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Object, quality, relation, action</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A child is shown a painting and asked to tell the researcher what they see.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Perception must begin from a disorganised confusion of individual stimuli, gradually joining them together to build up images of individual objects and their relation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>From an initial awareness of an undifferentiated whole, gradually becoming aware of a more and more differentiated whole</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Perception must begin from a disorganised confusion of individual stimuli, gradually joining the 'pixels' together to build up images of individual objects</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Object, quality, relation, action</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>From an initial awareness of an undifferentiated whole, gradually becoming aware of a more and more differentiated whole</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>'Bottom-up' notion, starting from disorganised confusion of individual stimuli</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Russian Revolution</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Children's ability to bring their perception into conscious awareness</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Gomel; reading avidly in history and philosophy</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By their ability to describe what is happening in words</p> Signup and view all the answers