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Early 1930s: A. R. Luria, Soviet psychologist
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| Vygotsky and I conceived the idea of carrying out the first far-reaching study of intellectual functions among adults from a nontechnological, nonliterate, traditional society in Soviet Uzbekistan. | |
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| Sir, we have here a hammer, saw, log, and hatchet. Which of these could you call by one word? | |
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| Why, the saw, log and hatchet of course. You can’t split wood without a saw and hatchet! | |
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| We found that illiterate villagers thought situationally, not in formal categories such as “tools.†With even a little literary training, people develop the logical categories of literary thinking | |
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