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Thought and Language...

Thought and language are two fundamental aspects of human cognition. Cognitivism is the study of the mental processes involved in cognition. These processes are mental activities that involve the acquisition, processing, storage and utilization of information in the human mind.

It is a form of expression through signs - It is semantic or meaningful: We can exchange information. - It is characterized by displacement: We can communicate time and space without the need to be there.- It is productive: We can make combinations, make sentences and with these sentences to express an infinity of things.

What is language¿?

Conscious cognitive process by which subjects manipulate the information they receive from the environment, thus generating new concepts, ideas, etc.

What is thinking ¿?

It is the information and understanding we acquire through experience, learning and reflection.

What is knowledge ¿?

We have two great contributions, which added with their observation and research to the development of thought and language several proposals made by Piaget and Vigostky.

Piaget's theory focuses on the idea that children construct their own knowledge through interaction with the world. Piaget argued that children go through four main cognitive stages: the sensorimotor stage, the preoperational stage, the concrete operations stage, and the formal operations stage.

Piaget

Vigotsky's theory focuses on the idea that learning is most effective when children work collaboratively with others. Vigotsky argued that learning is also social and cultural, meaning that the context in which it is taught is important.

Vigotsky

The two theorists differ in certain aspects. For example, while Piaget emphasizes the importance of cognitive maturity, Vigotsky emphasizes social interaction. Another key difference is that Piaget considers that the child constructs his or her own knowledge, whereas Vigotsky maintains that knowledge is constructed through social interaction.

I can consider and support the idea of what we have seen so far in class, that is first language and then thought, we are born with a clean mind, full of intelligence, where we begin to absorb what we see and hear, even without understanding we try to decipher and imitate, however this is not to exercise thought, only when we come into contact with the language we can begin to analyze our actions, our emotions, to really understand the world around us, only with communication we can make mental operations that lead us to knowledge, since it is not only to know something but also the reason for that something. That is why we first speak and as a result we think

¿is thought prior to language or is language prior to thought?