Lev Vygotsky
A Soviet psychologist whose sociocultural theory emphasized the crucial role of social interaction and culture in cognitive development.
Quotes by Lev Vygotsky
Ego-centric speech is a form of speech that serves the child's thinking, not communication.
The social environment is the source of all higher psychological functions.
Imagination is a new form of reality.
The path from object to abstraction passes through a series of similar stages.
Consciousness is a product of social development.
Development is a dialectical process.
The child's speech develops from the social to the egocentric and then to inner speech.
Art is the social technique of emotion.
Theater is the school of life.
In crisis, the child experiences a reorganization of his personality.
The unity of thought and word is the key to understanding the mind.
Psychology must be a science of behavior in its concrete social context.
The future psychologist will study the development of the child's higher mental functions.
Memory is not a passive repository but an active process mediated by signs.
The child's mind is a social construct.
Play creates a zone of proximal development of the child's mastery over the environment.
Language transforms the child's natural mental functions into cultural ones.
The essence of human consciousness is its social origin.
In the process of development, the child internalizes social relations.
Thinking is internalized speech.