Vygotsky was interested in how individual's underwent semiosis of their
culture. The method he undertook to do this he referred to as the method of
double stimulation. The oft sited experiment is one conducted by leontiev.
The directions were given that the subject would be asked questions but was
forbidden to respond using particular colors. The experiment was conducted
two times, once where the subject was allowed a memory aid to remember what
colors not to say and one where they would have to rely on their own memory.
The results indicated that young children made as many mistakes using the
card as without, while the adolescents made less mistakes when they were
provided the memory aid and that adults had the same number of mistakes as
without. IN this case cross-categorical comparisons were made across age
groups. A more extensive study was conducted by Luria in the early 1930's.
The results of this study are provided in Luria's book Cognitive Development.
eric
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