PLT-Piaget and Vygotsky

Lev Vygotsky

• tended toward nature explanations 
• tended toward cultural explanations
• was a guitar maker
• died at age 9

Jean Piaget 

• tended toward nature explanations
• tended toward cultural explanations
• was president of France 
• was a Swiss banker

Piaget was interested in how 

• a cultural anthropologist can become embedded in a foreign culture
• a child creates mental models

Jean Piaget worked with 

• Lev Vygotsky
• Alfred Binet 

Jean Piaget coined the phrase genetic epistemology 

• origins of thinking
• skeptical inquirer 

Jean Piaget was primarily interested in I.Q. tests

• true 
• false

"a cohesive, repeatable action sequence, possessing components that are tightly interconnected and governed by a core meaning."

• Lev Vygotsky's definition of schema
• Jean Piaget's definition of schema
• Robinson's no sandbagging rule
• all of these

--- emphasis was on the ability to master increasingly complex tasks and --- emphasis was the cultural setting and family.

• Haldane, Massimo 
• Vygotsky's, Piaget's 
• Piaget's, Vygotsky's
• Aron, Aronson 

This happens when the existing schema (knowledge) does not work, and needs to be changed to deal with a new object or situation.

• Assimilation
• Equlibration
• Accomodation
• all of these

Using an existing schema to deal with a new object or situation.

• Assimilation 
• Assocation
• Equilibration