Psychological Test, Vigotsky Concept Formation Blocks
date: label: date made
content: ca 1940
notes: label: Description
content: This test of concept formation includes twenty-two blocks of various colors (blue, white, yellow, red, and green) and shapes (square, triangle, circle, semicircle, hexagon, cylinder, and trapezoid). Five blocks have LAG written on them, five MUR, six BLK and six CEV. When the marked sides are placed flat, the blocks marked MUR are all 2 cm. high and have relatively small width. The blocks marked LAG have the same height and a larger width. The blocks marked CEV are all .8 cm. high with a relatively small width. The blocks marked BLK also are all .8 cm. high and have a larger width. The blocks fit in a compact wooden box stained brown that has a top that slides off.
label: Description
content: A paper sticker on the lid of the box reads: Vigotsky (/) test. A sticker on the side of the box is stamped: SHAKOW. It also has written in pen: Ach Sakhaw. A pencil mark on the back of the lid reads: Mr. Shaiko (/) Don Bishop.
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content: This test is associated with the names of Russian psychologiests Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934) and his colleague Leonid Solomonovich Sakharov (1900-1928). According to some sources, Vygotsky’s test had thirty-six pieces, a number reduced to twenty-two by Boris Semeonoff in 1937.
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content: Not all psychologists admired the test. For example, Grace Helen Kent wrote: “The Vigotsky test may keep the subject working many minutes on false leads, and the chances are against a child’s finding the correct lead at all.”
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content: References:
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content: Website www.oxfordreferenc.com, accessed January 24, 2020.
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content: Website http://broughttolife.sciencemuseum.org.uk/, accessed January 24, 2020.
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content: G.H. Kent, <I>Mental Tests in Clinics for Children</I>, New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1950, p. 119.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Psychology
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content: Mathematics
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content: Psychological Tests
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of David Shakow
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.316372.07
label: catalog number
content: 316372.07
label: accession number
content: 316372
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Psychological Test
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 cm x 11.5 cm x 9 cm; 2 3/8 in x 4 17/32 in x 3 17/32 in