ABSTRACT
By the mid-1980s of the last century it became clear that further developments of cognitive psychology were required to provide a solid foundation for a scientific psychology. Language, as the main tool of cognition, began to be the focus of all kinds of research, including developmental studies. Along with that came the realization that the first cognitive revolution had remained trapped by the presumption of individualism. Jerome Bruner (1986) was one of those who realized that social cognitive processes were prior to individual acts of thinking. This was the beginning of the second cognitive revolution.
