Consciousness, complex behavior, complex mental processes, and language depend on ability to use tools and signs {significative behavior}. Words start as emotion expressions, then designate concrete objects, and later have abstract meaning. People have potential capacities {potential development zone} {zone of potential development} that develop in societies.
language development
Techniques {Vygotsky-Sakharov technique} {Vygotsky-Hanfman-Kasanin test} can track language development. Language develops from sign use into sign system. Semantics develops, and sign meanings change. Children think by memorizing, but adults memorize by thinking. People gain ability to solve problems by themselves and with aid from teacher or parent {social prompting}.
goals
In situations, tools and signs reach goals, usually with feedback.
culture
Higher mental processes require social settings to develop. Socialization processes lead to consciousness. Human conscious behavior relates subject of experience to social environment. Phenomena are large and complex relation-network parts {ascending to the concrete}, not irreducible personal experiences [Vygotsky, 1930].
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