Vygotsky's Theory: Understanding Key Ideas and Concepts in Detail

This assignment delves into Vygotsky's theory, focusing on the interplay between social interaction and cognitive development. It highlights the significance of social activities in shaping a child's mental processes, emphasizing the transformation from external to internal psychological functions. The assignment examines key concepts like inter-psychological and intra-psychological processes, and the role of language in learning. It also provides examples of how children internalize social behaviors, such as dressing and performing everyday tasks. References include works by Crawford (2006) and Vygotsky (2012), providing a comprehensive understanding of his theories.

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The multifarious psychological process instigates like a societal activity and progressively
changes into the internal psychological activity which children are able to utilize autonomously.
It is one of the key ideas developed by Lev Vygotsky in his social development theory.Unlike
other Psychologists such as Jean Piaget he felt that in a child development and learning process,
social interactions play a primary role. He states that "Every function in the child development
appears twice, first, on the social level and later on the individual level." The two parts are
known as inter-psychological and intra-psychological respectively (Crawford, 2006).
According to Lev, language as an essential social interaction function takes a key role in the
growth and development of a child. It involves external experiences being transformed to
internal through the sense of hearing and speech. For example, when a child consistently hears
specific aspects of the speech he or she will internalize them and repeatedly will master them.
Another aspect is the way of dressing which the child will learn from the social interactions and
will eventually take them as part of him, and even while independent, he will dress accordingly.
A child also learns simple activities such washing hands, cooking and performing other errands
depending on what the society has exposed him to (Vyogtsky, 2012). It is thus very true that the
growth of a child majorly depends on the social activities observed which becomes part of the
complex mental process.

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References
Crawford, K. (2006). Vygotskian approaches to human development. New York: Megan Press.
Vygotsky, L. (2012). Mind in society: The development of higher psychological processes.
Harvard: Harvard University Press.