PSYC1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Richard E. Nisbett, Dynamic Assessment, Cultural-Historical Psychology
22 Jul 2018
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Throughout development, they learn the cultural patterns of thinking and knowledge. Conversation: affect the child"s memories about beach experience. To understand development: look at the child"s behaviour in the context in which it occurs. Context: contexts have many levels - ranging from the immediate face-to- face interaction with another person to general, all-encompassing cultural belief systems. "the distance between a child"s actual developmental level as determined by independent problem solving and the higher level of potential development as determined through problem solving under adult guidance or in collaboration with more capable peers" Dynamic assessment of children"s potential development levels rather than only a static assessment of their actual levels (zone of proximal development) One focus of research on cultural variation is individualism vs collectivism. Indigenous and eastern cultures focus more on the collective. Parent shave different views of child development in collectivist and individualist countries.
