Tools of Intellectual Adaptation

Both Piaget and Vygotsky give credence to the idea that infants are born with certain tools for intellectual development. While Piaget focuses on motor reflexes and sensory functions, Vygotsky focuses on the following Elementary Mental Functions:  
  • Attention
  • Sensation
  • Perception
  • Memory (McLeod, 2007).
Through social interaction, these processes evolve into more developed strategies that Vygotsky terms Higher Mental Functions. McLeod (2007) mentions how various cultures employ different strategies to spur memory. For instance, primitive cultures might have tied knots in strings or carried pebbles. More modern cultural influences have given us the ability to take detailed notes. Even more recently, we have attained the ability to program data-encoded reminders into palm pilots or smart phones. Thus, Vygotsky proposed that basic tools of intellectual adaptation vary among different cultures (McLeod, 2007).

 
 

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