L S Vygotsky
Biographic Data
| ID | 881950 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L S Vygotsky |
| GIVEN NAMES | L S |
| FAMILY NAME | Vygotsky |
| SIGNATURE | VYGOTSKY L S |
| AFFILIATIONS | a Razvitie vyshikh psikhicheckikh funktsii, Moscow |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Speech in the debate on the report by K.S. Lashley (Moscow, 20 April 1931)
This is the first publication of the transcript of Lev Vygotsky’s speech during the debate on American psychophysiologist Karl Lashley’s report. 2 After outlining the key innovations in Lashley’s theory concerning the localisation of psychological functions and the relationship between brain mechanisms and intelligence, Vygotsky proceeds to challenge the conventional view of the brain as a telephone switching station. An alternative to this view …
Two Letters to D.B. Elkonin
Lecture Four. Structure and Functions of Cultural Operations in Children
Lecture Three. Phenotypic and Genotypic in Psychological Processes
Lectures on the Psychology of Development
At that time, cultural-historical theory was just entering its maturity phase, but it had already yielded valuable theoretical and experimental results. It was based on the “instrumental method”. As applied to pedology, principles of this method were outlined in seven theses that were also published in 1928 (Vygotsky L.S. The instrumental method in pedology. In A.B. Zalkind (Ed.), Mains methods of pedology in USSR (pp. 158—159). Moscow, 1928). Th…
Theatre and Revolution
The Collected Works of L. S. Vygotsky
Imagination and Creativity in the Adolescent
We deliberately preface this examination of fantasy and creativity in adolescence with a brief digression into psychopathology. With this beginning we hope to emphasize sharply and clearly that in light of our particular understanding of the psychology of the adolescent, this problem creates a completely new position that is contrary to the traditional position generally accepted in the pedology of the adolescent
Imagination and Creativity in Childhood
We call any activity of a person that creates anything new, creative activity. This includes the creation of any kind of inner world or construction of the mind that is experienced and observed only in humans. Looking at human behavior, we can distinguish two basic forms of construction. One form of activity can be called reproductive, and is closely connected with memory, its essence consisting in a person's reproducing or retrieving traces of p…
Concrete Human Psychology
For L. S. Vygotsky the end of the '20s was a time of intensive theoretical and experimental work in developing the basic postulates of his cultural-historical theory of the human mind. The relatively calm and, in spite of everything, happy first five years of his life in Moscow, after moving there in 1924 from Gomel', lay behind him. This was a period of his development as a psychologist when his star was in the ascendancy; when within a few year…
Diagnosis of the Development and Pedological Clinical Care of Difficult Children
Biology long ago discovered empirically that two phenotypically identical structures or processes may be wholly dissimilar from a causal-dynamic perspective, i.e., in terms of their causes and their effects. Physics and, recently, biology have demonstrated that phenotypical similarity may go hand in hand with an extreme difference in causal-dynamic properties and that, conversely, there may be considerable phenotypical difference between two phen…
The Psychology of Schizophrenia
In the clinical symptoms of schizophrenia the psychologist finds an extraordinary and almost unique phenomenon, in any event, a phenomenon that cannot be compared with anything previously described. It is a unique and extraordinary case of a type of psychological development and alteration of consciousness and its functions that can shed light on the normal organization of consciousness. Most importantly, it can shed light on the normal organizat…
The Problem of Mental Retardation (A Tentative Working Hypothesis)
Within the general problem of mental retardation, the focus has traditionally been on the child's intellectual inadequacy, his feeblemindedness. This is entrenched in the very term used to designate these children, who are usually called feebleminded, or mentally retarded. All the other aspects of the personality of such a child are usually seen as phenomena arising secondarily as a function of the basic intellectual defect. Many investigators do…
Contemporary Defectology
The eminent Soviet psychologist Le'v Semenovich Vygotsky and his theoretical and experimental studies placed considerable emphasis on the problem of abnormal development (defectology) throughout the course of his entire scientific career
Mind in Society
The Development of Higher Forms of Attention in Childhood
The history of attention in the child is the history of levels of the organization of his/her behavior. This history begins from the very moment of birth. Initially the child's attentional processes are carried out through inherited neurological mechanisms that organize the functioning of his/her reflexes in accordance with the well-known physiological principle of response dominance. This principle asserts that the organizing feature in the nerv…
Consciousness as a Problem in the Psychology of Behavior
The article that follows is both a historical landmark and a theoretical discussion of unusual contemporary value to psychology. It is the written version of a speech delivered by L. S. Vygotsky at the Second All-Union Congress of Psychoneurologists, held in Leningrad in 1924. This was Vygotsky's first major contribution to Soviet psychology, and it came at a critical time in the history of Soviet science
Mind in Society
Introduction Michael Cole and Sylvia Scribner Biographical Note on L. S. Vygotsky Basic Theory and Data 1. Tool and Symbol in Child Development 2. The Development of Perception and Attention 3. Mastery of Memory and Thinking 4. Internalization of Higher Psychological Functions 5. Problems of Method Educational Implications 6. Interaction between Learning and Development 7. The Role of Play in Development 8. The Prehistory of Written Language Afte…
La préhistoire du discours écrit
The Development of Higher Psychological Functions
Soviet psychologists' views of the relationship between psychology and Pavlovian psychophysiology (or the study of higher nervous activity, as it is referred to in the Soviet literature) has long been a matter of curiosity and concern in the United States. Not accidentally, it has also been a matter of concern and dispute within the USSR. The following is an excerpt from a work by one of the Soviet Union's most seminal psychological theorists on …
Thought and Language
Play and Its Role in the Mental Development of the Child
In speaking of play and its role in the preschooler's development, we are concerned with two fundamental questions: first, how play itself arises in development — its origin and genesis; second, the role of this developmental activity, which we call play, as a form of development in the child of preschool age. Is play the leading form of activity for a child of this age, or is it simply the predominant form
Bibliography of L. S. Vygotsky
In Russian: 1. Soznaniye kak problema psikhologii povedeniya [Consciousness as a problem of the psychology of behavior]. In Psikhologiya i marksizm. Leningrad-Moscow, 1925
Thought and Language
Book Reviews Get access Thought and Language. By L. S. Vygotsky. Translated by E. Hanfmann and G. Vakar. (New York : M.I.T. Press and John Wiley. 1962. Pp. xxii + 168. Price 45s). A. L. Wilkes A. L. Wilkes Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 14, Issue 55, April 1964, Pages 178–179, https://doi.org/10.2307/2955559 Published: 01 April 1964
Thought and Language
Book Reviews Get access Thought and Language. By L. S. Vygotsky. Translated by E. Hanfmann and G. Vakar. (New York : M.I.T. Press and John Wiley. 1962. Pp. xxii + 168. Price 45s). A. L. Wilkes A. L. Wilkes Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 14, Issue 55, April 1964, Pages 178–179, https://doi.org/10.2307/2955559 Published: 01 April 1964
Play and Its Role in the Mental Development of the Child
In speaking of play and its role in the preschooler's development, we are concerned with two fundamental questions: first, how play itself arises in development — its origin and genesis; second, the role of this developmental activity, which we call play, as a form of development in the child of preschool age. Is play the leading form of activity for a child of this age, or is it simply the predominant form
Bibliography of L. S. Vygotsky
In Russian: 1. Soznaniye kak problema psikhologii povedeniya [Consciousness as a problem of the psychology of behavior]. In Psikhologiya i marksizm. Leningrad-Moscow, 1925
Thought and Language
The Development of Higher Psychological Functions
Soviet psychologists' views of the relationship between psychology and Pavlovian psychophysiology (or the study of higher nervous activity, as it is referred to in the Soviet literature) has long been a matter of curiosity and concern in the United States. Not accidentally, it has also been a matter of concern and dispute within the USSR. The following is an excerpt from a work by one of the Soviet Union's most seminal psychological theorists on …
Mind in Society
Introduction Michael Cole and Sylvia Scribner Biographical Note on L. S. Vygotsky Basic Theory and Data 1. Tool and Symbol in Child Development 2. The Development of Perception and Attention 3. Mastery of Memory and Thinking 4. Internalization of Higher Psychological Functions 5. Problems of Method Educational Implications 6. Interaction between Learning and Development 7. The Role of Play in Development 8. The Prehistory of Written Language Afte…
La préhistoire du discours écrit
The Development of Higher Forms of Attention in Childhood
The history of attention in the child is the history of levels of the organization of his/her behavior. This history begins from the very moment of birth. Initially the child's attentional processes are carried out through inherited neurological mechanisms that organize the functioning of his/her reflexes in accordance with the well-known physiological principle of response dominance. This principle asserts that the organizing feature in the nerv…
Consciousness as a Problem in the Psychology of Behavior
The article that follows is both a historical landmark and a theoretical discussion of unusual contemporary value to psychology. It is the written version of a speech delivered by L. S. Vygotsky at the Second All-Union Congress of Psychoneurologists, held in Leningrad in 1924. This was Vygotsky's first major contribution to Soviet psychology, and it came at a critical time in the history of Soviet science
Mind in Society
Contemporary Defectology
The eminent Soviet psychologist Le'v Semenovich Vygotsky and his theoretical and experimental studies placed considerable emphasis on the problem of abnormal development (defectology) throughout the course of his entire scientific career
Diagnosis of the Development and Pedological Clinical Care of Difficult Children
Biology long ago discovered empirically that two phenotypically identical structures or processes may be wholly dissimilar from a causal-dynamic perspective, i.e., in terms of their causes and their effects. Physics and, recently, biology have demonstrated that phenotypical similarity may go hand in hand with an extreme difference in causal-dynamic properties and that, conversely, there may be considerable phenotypical difference between two phen…
The Psychology of Schizophrenia
In the clinical symptoms of schizophrenia the psychologist finds an extraordinary and almost unique phenomenon, in any event, a phenomenon that cannot be compared with anything previously described. It is a unique and extraordinary case of a type of psychological development and alteration of consciousness and its functions that can shed light on the normal organization of consciousness. Most importantly, it can shed light on the normal organizat…
The Problem of Mental Retardation (A Tentative Working Hypothesis)
Within the general problem of mental retardation, the focus has traditionally been on the child's intellectual inadequacy, his feeblemindedness. This is entrenched in the very term used to designate these children, who are usually called feebleminded, or mentally retarded. All the other aspects of the personality of such a child are usually seen as phenomena arising secondarily as a function of the basic intellectual defect. Many investigators do…
Concrete Human Psychology
For L. S. Vygotsky the end of the '20s was a time of intensive theoretical and experimental work in developing the basic postulates of his cultural-historical theory of the human mind. The relatively calm and, in spite of everything, happy first five years of his life in Moscow, after moving there in 1924 from Gomel', lay behind him. This was a period of his development as a psychologist when his star was in the ascendancy; when within a few year…
Imagination and Creativity in Childhood
We call any activity of a person that creates anything new, creative activity. This includes the creation of any kind of inner world or construction of the mind that is experienced and observed only in humans. Looking at human behavior, we can distinguish two basic forms of construction. One form of activity can be called reproductive, and is closely connected with memory, its essence consisting in a person's reproducing or retrieving traces of p…
Imagination and Creativity in the Adolescent
We deliberately preface this examination of fantasy and creativity in adolescence with a brief digression into psychopathology. With this beginning we hope to emphasize sharply and clearly that in light of our particular understanding of the psychology of the adolescent, this problem creates a completely new position that is contrary to the traditional position generally accepted in the pedology of the adolescent
The Collected Works of L. S. Vygotsky
Theatre and Revolution
Lecture Four. Structure and Functions of Cultural Operations in Children
Lecture Three. Phenotypic and Genotypic in Psychological Processes
Lectures on the Psychology of Development
At that time, cultural-historical theory was just entering its maturity phase, but it had already yielded valuable theoretical and experimental results. It was based on the “instrumental method”. As applied to pedology, principles of this method were outlined in seven theses that were also published in 1928 (Vygotsky L.S. The instrumental method in pedology. In A.B. Zalkind (Ed.), Mains methods of pedology in USSR (pp. 158—159). Moscow, 1928). Th…
Two Letters to D.B. Elkonin
Speech in the debate on the report by K.S. Lashley (Moscow, 20 April 1931)
This is the first publication of the transcript of Lev Vygotsky’s speech during the debate on American psychophysiologist Karl Lashley’s report. 2 After outlining the key innovations in Lashley’s theory concerning the localisation of psychological functions and the relationship between brain mechanisms and intelligence, Vygotsky proceeds to challenge the conventional view of the brain as a telephone switching station. An alternative to this view …
Psychology (17 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Educational and Psychological Assessments (7 works) · Psychoanalysis (7 works) · Psychology of Development and Education (6 works) · Cognitive science (5 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works)