İnsan gelişimi incelenirken en çok incelenen alanlardan biri de bilişsel gelişimdir. İnsanın dünyayı tanıyıp kavramasında faaliyetler önemlidir. Bilişsel gelişi, beyin ve sinir sistemlerinin olgunlaşmasıyla bireyin çevresine uyum sağlamasına yardımcı olan deneyimlerinin bileşimidir. Dünyaya gelen her birey birbirinden farklı zihinsel yapılarla gelmektedir. Çeşitli öğrenme yaşantıları ile yetişk...

Objectives. 1. To analyze the socio-political conditions in which pedagogical psychology as a sci¬entific discipline began to develop and educational system USSR at beginning of XX century was formed. 2. consider L.S. Vygotsky’s approach diagnosis mental develop¬ment children different nationalities for subsequent pedagogically correct organization their upbringing educating. Background. The in...

Introduction New Zealand and the Pacific Islands are like every country in the world, finding that the key to their future economic advancement and cultural integrity depends on the way their people are educated. At the same time advances in information technology has a great impact on all aspects of our professional and private lives, changing the way we learn, do business, bank, shop, and pla...

Cognitive revolution paved the way for new ways of thinking about human ps ychology and the mind. The relationship between language and cognition and the effect each has on the development of the other one has been one of the most controversial issues in the field of linguistics and psychology. Different theoretical perspectives like Artificial Intelligence, Connectionism, Modularity and Cognit...

This paper discusses theoretical issues concerning Vygotsky’s work that have remained unaddressed in the dominant interpretations of his work, either in the former Soviet psychology or in the dominant Western interpretations. This paper builds on interpretations of Vygotsky’s concepts oriented by the unity of emotional and cognitive processes and focused on the search for new psychical unities ...

We describe a set of experiments investigating the role of natural language symbols in scaffolding situated action. Agents are evolved to respond appropriately to commands in order to perform simple tasks. We explore three different conditions, which show a significant advantage to the re-use of a public symbol system, through self-cueing leading to qualitative changes in performance. This is m...

Articles Translating Perezhivanie into English Andy Blunden ........................................................................................................... 4 Vygotsky and Vasilyuk on Perezhivanie: Two Notions and One Word Marc Clarà .............................................................................................................. 13 Perezhivaniya as a means of creating t...