Piaget and Vygotsky: a comparison

Question 1

Life after Piaget/Vygotsky: Nativism

Answer 1

• Chomsky 1959 - poverty of stimulus
• Fodor 1983
• Spelke
  but nativists underestimate the conceptual change that can be observed

Question 2

Life after Piaget/Vygotsky: information processing theories

4 points

Answer 2

• focuses on role of attention, memory, self-control etc
• development involves overcoming processing limitations
• BUT components hard to combine into broad picture
• BUT slow to include biology

Question 3

Life after Piaget/Vygotsky: neuroconstructivism

3 points

Answer 3

• emphasises both genes and the environment
• nativism meets Piaget
• motivated by advances in developmental cognitive neuroscience

Question 4

Life after Piaget/Vygotsky

relationships between development & interdisciplinary

Answer 4

• relationship between changes in the brain and cognitive development/learning
• interdisciplinary: psychology, biology, neuroscience and medicine

Question 5

Life after Piage/Vygotsky: developmental neuroscientific methods

Answer 5

• potential to provide an additional source of evidence, in some cases addressing issues that are not tractable by more traditional methods