...Richard F. Kitchener According to the standard interpretation concerning the role of the social in the theories of Vygotsky and Piaget, Piaget is a biological individualist whereas Vygotsky is a sociocultural collectivist. The mental is internal and private for Piaget but external and public...

...Deanna Kuhn The mechanistic and organismic paradigms in developmental psychology have tended to be narrowly applied to the particular phenomena they handle best: the development of social behavior in the case of the mechanistic paradigm and cognitive development in the case of the organismic...