CD 305 Chapter 8.5: CD 305 W2D1 RR 5 Chapter 8.5

• School: Cal Poly
• Department: Child Development
• Course: CD 305
• Professor: Marta Block

Document Summary

Cultural scripts: generalized event representations, specify who participates in an event, what social roles they play, what objects they are to use during the event and the sequence of actions that makeup the event. External: observable patterns of behavior expressed in the words and the customary practices. Internal: representations of those tools, are resources for cognitive development that affect the child"s thinking and reasoning, cultural scripts are guides to actions. Mental representations that individuals use to gure out what is likely to happen: scripts allow people with a group to coordinate their actions with each other because the script is shared. Cultural context and the unevenness of development: cultural in uence the unevenness of children"s development in several ways. By making speci c activities available: a child can"t learn about something with our seeing or hearing about it. A child growing in poverty won"t understand electronics. A child growing in new york wouldn"t understand cow herding.