The Collected Works of L.S. Vygotsky: Volume 1: Problems of General Psychology, Including the Volume Thinking and SpeechThe Collected Works of Lev Semonovich Vygotsky comprise a series of six volumes, originally published in Moscow by Pedagogika between 1982 and 1984 and comprising the work done by Vygotsky between 1924 and his early death in 1934. The present vol ume is the first of this series to appear in English but it is actually Volume 2 in the Russian series. It contains a complete rendition of Thinking and Speech (which may be known to English readers as Thought and Language, the title assigned to an abridged, interpretative translation by Hanfmann and Vakar in 1962) and five Lectures in Psy chology which are here published for the first time in English and essentialIy comprise Vygotsky's systematization of psychological theory and data in respect to the develop ment in childhood of perception, memory, thinking, emotions, imagination, and will. The volumes which are yet to appear in English are respectively concerned with: (1) theory and history of psychology; (2) problems of developmental psychology; (3) child and adolescent psychology; (4) "defectology" (or "special education" in American par lance); and (5) a "scientific archive" consisting of a critique of Spinoza's studies of the passions and an important essay, "Tool and Sign. " The decision by the Translator and Editors to render the title of the first segment of this volume, Mysclzlenie i Rech', as Thinking and Speech and not as Thought and Language, as it was previously translated, was a very intentional one. |
Contents
Prologue to the English Edition | 1 |
An Introduction | 17 |
Preface | 40 |
The Problem of Speech and Thinking in Piagets Theory | 53 |
Sterns Theory of Speech Development | 93 |
39 | 104 |
3333 | 111 |
The Genetic Roots of Thinking and Speech | 121 |
Peception and Its Development in Childhood | 289 |
Memory and Its Development in Childhood | 301 |
Thinking and Its Development in Childhood | 311 |
Emotions and Their Development in Childhood | 325 |
Imagination and Its Development in Childhood | 339 |
Afterword to the Russian Edition | 359 |
Notes to the Russian Edition | 375 |
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Common terms and phrases
abstract action activity adult analysis argued aspect of speech associationism associative associative psychology attempt autistic thinking basic begins behavior cepts chained complex characteristics child's development child's egocentric child's speech child's thinking child's thought chimpanzee complexive thinking concept formation concrete connections conscious awareness consciousness demonstrated devel developmental differentiation domain egocentric speech emergence emotions empirical everyday concepts experimental experiments explain expression external speech fact forms of thinking foundation fundamental genetic Gestalt psychology higher mental functions imagination inner speech instruction and development intellectual internal isolated issue James-Lange theory Kohler language laws learning logical manifested meaningful memory nature object ontogenesis opment oral speech perception perspective phrase Piaget problem psychology reality relationship representations scientific concepts sense significance social speech spontaneous concepts stage Stern structure syncretic task tendency theoretical theory thinking and speech tion transition understanding unique velopment verbal thinking volitional Vygotsky Vygotsky's word meaning written speech