Re: double stimulation

Ricardo Ottoni (rjapias who-is-at ibm.net)
Tue, 27 Jul 1999 15:02:58 -0200

Mike Cole wrote:
>
> Folks-- Isn't the method of double stimulation a model of the "cultural
> habit of behavior" which sets up conditions where people can use
> auxiliary stimuli and hence engage in higher mental functions?

Yes, I think it is.

I do not
> see the centrality of the everyday/scientific distinction to this
> general principle.

If it is not central to understand the distinction between
everyday/social concepts, it was in fact very helpfull on depicting such
distinction: Wasn't through that method that members of the Russian
Cultural Psychology School discovered/exposed "the role of words and
the character of their functional usage in the process of concept
formation" (Vygotsky's "Thinking and concept formation in
adolescence" In: Veer-Valsiner's THE VYGOTSKY READER, P. 209)?