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Abstract:
The article sets a goal to introduce readers to the article of Orlando Lourenco, professor of Lisbon University, who suggests totally new (and from his point of view unreasonably ignored for a long period of time) parameters of assessing resemblances and differences in approaches of two influential developmental psychologists (Piaget and Vygotsky) to several fundamental problems of psychology: 1) the origins of knowledge and motor of development; 2) influence of equal vs. those based on authorities relations on child development and learning; 3) the more appropriate method for studying developmental changes; 4) the importance of the distinction between true vs. necessary knowledge;5) the role of transformation vs. transmission in the development and learning phenomena.