Olson's preface to Bruner Spocial Founda

Olson’s preface to Bruner Spocial Foundations of Langauge and Thought

1. biotropic / sociotropic approaches to cognition

2. Three approaches: social relations between child/adults; ; internalization (Roy not a huge fan of symbol systems amplifying mental powers. Distinction between how biological evolution is endosomatic; human evolution is exosomatic

3. That is, the structure of the artifact may reflect the stru.cture of th~ cognit~ve processes that created it. 

4. How the world of ideas are reflected in the mental life of the individual. 

Pea, 1986: Cognitive technologies for writing