PSYC 311 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Spell Checker, Lev Vygotsky, Imitative Learning
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Vygotsky"s sociocultural perspective: the social sources of individual thinking. A. 1. culture shapes cognitive development by determining what and how the child will learn about the world the content and processes of thinking. A. 2. human activities take place in cultural settings and that they cannot be understood apart from these settings. A. 3. our specific mental structures and processes can be traced to our interactions with others. Co-constructed process: activities between the child and another person that are internalized by the child and become part of that child"s cognitive development. A. 5. children"s cognitive development is fostered by interactions with people who are more capable or advanced in their thinking people such as parents and teachers: cultural tools and cognitive development. The real tools (computers, scales, etc. ) and symbol systems (numbers, language, graphs) that allow people in a society to communicate, think, solve problems, and create knowledge.
