PSY 3010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 38: Mental Chronometry, Lev Vygotsky, Egocentrism
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It helps when parents gently explain the options for resolving conflict: sharing, trading, taking turns. It is also important to guide, and support their development of personal and family life skills. In no industrialized societies/cultures, children participate more extensively in household work. In almost all cultures, young girls are more often assigned child care duties than are young boys. Promoting young children"s cognitive development: piaget: preschooler egocentrism shows up in their inability to share their toys (inability to consider two perspectives at once theirs & the other child"s) Insights from vygotsky: parents" guide their young children"s cognitive development by, presenting challenges for new learning, offering assistance with difficult tasks, providing instruction, encouraging the preschooler"s interest and motivation. Intent participation is a powerful form of fostering learning: it contributes to notable learning such as that accomplished by young children learning their first language.
