Eric wrote:
>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.
too bad you weren't in Amsterdam this last june, when Rene Van Der Veer
addressed this very experiment - and with explicit instruction the
results were practically identical for ages 8 through 30. in fact,
success seemed to rest not on whether the students were 'scaffolded'
(Bruner's term) with cards, than
on semiotic guidance.
perhaps his talk is on a web site somewhere.
phillip
* * * * * * * *
* *
The English noun "identity" comes, ultimately, from the
Latin adverb "identidem", which means "repeatedly."
The Latin has exactly the same rhythm as the English,
buh-BUM-buh-BUM - a simple iamb, repeated; and
"identidem" is, in fact, nothing more than a
reduplication of the word "idem", "the same":
"idem(et)idem". "Same(and) same". The same,
repeated. It is a word that does exactly what
it means.
from "The Elusive Embrace" by Daniel
Mendelsohn.
phillip white
university of colorado at denver
denver, colorado
phillip_white@ceo.cudenver.edu
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