Vygotsky vs Piaget Flashcards
Fact 1 is this a difference of a similarity
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Cognitive development is driven by a child’s inbuilt tendency to adapt to new experiences - Piaget
Cognitive development is driven by social interaction and experience with a culture - Vygotsky
Vygotsky says it is a social process while Piaget says it depends on the child’s inbuilt tendency
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cognitive development is mostly the same universally - Piaget
cognitive development differs from culture to culture and from one historical era to the next - Vygotsky
Fact 3: Is this a difference or a similarity
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children learn through instruction and guidance -Vygotsky
children learn through active self-discovery -Piaget
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Learners progress through the stages of intellectual development with age, and learn increasingly more complex information and skills as they get older - Piaget
Children learn increasingly more complex information and skills as they get older through the performance of more difficult tasks with the help of a more advanced individual = Vygotsky
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Knowledge is acquired through the internalisation of the experts understanding - Vygotsky
Knowledge is acquired through direct experiences - Piaget
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Knowledge is acquired through the internalisation of the experts understanding - Vygotsky
Knowledge is acquired through direct experiences - Piaget
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Children will learn only when they are ready (readiness) -Piaget
Cognitive development can be accelerated - Vygotsky
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Language develops as a result of cognitive development. Outward monologues are meaningless and egocentric speech is incident to thought - Piaget
The ability to use language is key to cognitive development.
Outwards monologues direct thinking and after become internalised as thought - Vygotsky
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Understanding occurs through social experiences - Vygotsky
Understanding occurs through the process of adaption of schemas - Piaget
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Places emphasis on both nature and nurture: Adaptive processes and mutation of brain and body (nature) combine with children responding to the demands of the environment in ways that meet their own goals (nurture) - Piaget
Places emphasise both nurture and nature. Believed heredity (nature) and dialogues with more expert members of society (nurture) contribute jointly to development - Vygotsky