CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -four elementary mental functions Vygotsky claimed that we are born with four ‘elementary mental functions’ : Attention, Sensation, Perception, and Memory. It is our social and cultural environment that allows us to use these elementary skills to develop and finally gain ‘higher mental functions.

Detailed explanation-2: -Vygotsky’s theory on children’s cognitive development centres around learning being an inherently social process. He places emphasis on social interaction as a defining element of learning and says it cannot be removed from its social context.

Detailed explanation-3: -Hence, it could be concluded that the statement ‘It ignores the importance of language in cognitive development’ is not true about the socio-cultural theory of Vygotsky.

Detailed explanation-4: -Vygotsky (1930-1935/1978) proposed that infants are born with a few elementary mental functions – attention, sensation, perception and memory – that are eventually transformed by the culture into new and more sophisticated mental processes he called higher mental functions.