摘要
This brief paper will attempt to present some of the more important contributions of Vygotsky to understand cognitive development and implications for computer gaming summarized through five relevant studies that have investigated various aspects of Vygoskyan concepts in child and adolescent cognitive development.Each of these selected scoping reviewed,and historical studies contributes to the understanding of social transmission of cognitive and reasoning skills in and out of family context.These may be extended to computer gaming and role play experiences at various stages of development.The selected studies offer some confirmation of Vygotsky’s theorized concepts of the social and interactional aspects of cognitive development in a variety of contexts.Although there are some methodological considerations for each study with respect to generalizability and replication,each offers some support for the social and interactional model of development and as these would apply to implications for computerized gaming as an aspect of development.