(S1,Ep20) Knowing where to look: a finer-grained look at development

In a previous chat, Huw Lloyd introduced "5 epistemological forms implicated in cognitive development." Here, Here Huw digs into various finer details of how such forms may develop, and also discusses how and why the trio signs, actions, and operations can be a helpful system for construing psychological development. Part 1 is here: http://tiny.cc/4om6tz (Initially published December 13, 2020)

Highlights include:

0:28 - Getting more into the formative process of cognitive development (or recapping/clarifying some key parts of part 1)

3:45 - Some useful ways to think about epistemological forms

5:25 - We can choose to treat anything - within our perception - as a sign

8:42 - Situation- and setting-based reasoning

13:25 - Knowing where to look: epistemology can fuel confidence in setting-based situations

16:50 - Empirical vs theoretical orientations

20:24 - The compelling nature of not knowing

25:30 - Planting a flag to recap the chat thus far

26:50 - The relation of Huw's work to Activity Theory and CHT

28:12 - Actions as goal-directed movement & thinking (made manifest through signs)

30:39 - Automatic vs. autonomic operations

35:44 - Operations don't require conscious attentions and are not serial (brick wall analogy)

38:44 - Conscious actions can turn into unconscious operations

42:29 - A "middle ground" where a residue of external signs still remains (w/ examples)

48:00 - The role of active orientation in expressing intention

50:22 - Actions and reactions (and emotions regulating actions)

55:11 - Productively distinguishing emotion from feeling

1:02:07 - How signs can suggest strategy and thus orientation (followed by a demonstration)

1:04:30 - Discerning AO by studying microdevelopment and morphogenesis of actions into operations

1:10:30 - Capturing neoformations and demonstrating conscious awareness and independence

1:14:16 - Does this kind of analysis transfer to many domains?

1:15:40 - Development is not just about importing culture but increasingly sophisticated sign use

1:16:59 - How might similar investigations go with older learners?

1:21:27 - Some quick closing questions

Some quotations:

- "these epistemological forms are representative of degrees of sophistication with using signs"

- "signs are like one side of the coin of which the other one is awareness"

- "as your reasoning improves, the richness of where you can put your attention improves"

- "he knows where to look" and has confidence

- "those signs that become used can detach themselves from the necessity of conscious awareness of them"

- "by looking at the configuration of signs at play, you can discern strategy, and from strategy you can discern orientation"

-"development is not just about importing culture" but increased "sophistication in the use of signs"

Lloyd, H. (2020) "A Study of Active Orientation, Part 1: A Perspective-Based Theory of Cognitive Development" - http://tiny.cc/vua6tz