Available in this first-ever English translation, this study by the well-known Russian psychologists demonstrates that the behavior of modern man is a product of three different lines of development: evolutionary, historical, and ontogenetic. This edition contains reproductions of the artwork from their original manuscript, including rare photographs.
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...indispensable for those interested in the development of language, memory, and complex cognition...psychological development, and ...cultural anthropology. Its delightful.
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This is a concise statement of the interaction of three parallel lines or planes of development: phylogenetic, ontogenetic, and cultural. Necessary reading, together with other works of Vygotsky, for anyone interested in cognitive tools, extended cognition, development of intelligence, or the role of language in social action and cognition. Contains an extensive discussion on anthropoid chimpanzees (based on Köhler, 1912-20), tools that augment cognition, and cultural development of memory and thinking. Two chapters written by Vygotsky, one by Luria."The behavior of contemporary civilized man is the product not only of biological evolution or childhood development. In the process of man's historical development, external relations between people, and relations between mankind and nature are not all that has changed and developed. Man himself has changed and developed; human nature has changed." (p. 41) "Just as in the process of man's historical deve! ! lopment, man changes not his natural organs, but his tools, so also in the process of his psychological development man has enhanced the workings of his intellect through the development of special technical 'auxiliaries' of thinking and behavior." (p. xiii)
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In considering the development of behavior from its simplest forms, as observed in the lower animals, to the most complex and highest forms as we see in man, we may easily note that behavior, taken as a whole, passes through three basic stages in its development. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cultural giftedness, contemporary civilized man, natural arithmetic, natural memory, cultural devices, auxiliary symbols, primitive memory, civilized adult, primitive thinking, primitive perception, primitive man, eidetic memory, primitive logic, outstanding memory, notched stick, biological type Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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In considering the development of behavior from its simplest forms, as observed in the lower animals, to the most complex and highest forms as we see in man, we may easily note that behavior, taken as a whole, passes through three basic stages in its development. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cultural giftedness, contemporary civilized man, natural arithmetic, natural memory, cultural devices, auxiliary symbols, primitive memory, civilized adult, primitive thinking, primitive perception, primitive man, eidetic memory, primitive logic, outstanding memory, notched stick, biological type Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Mental Development of the Child, The Intelligence of Apes, Academy of Communist Education, The Cultural Development of Special Functions, Academician Pavlov, North American Indians New!
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- The Development of Thought: Equilibration of Cognitive Structures by Jean Piaget on page 166
- Judgment and Reasoning in the Child by Jean Piaget on page 165
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