PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Noam Chomsky, Long-Term Memory, Lev Vygotsky
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Teacher, adult, older peer, computer: zone of proximal development. Distance between the child"s ability to perform a task with and without help. Child not able to learn alone, need adults help: learning is very important. Can communicate with others and themselves- enhances the complexity of their thinking and the ability to control their behavior. Private speech- talking to themselves: problems with taking other people"s advice, vygotsky- language helping the child to think about mental activities and. Just talking for themselves behaviours and help them select courses of action; fundamental for all cognitive processes. As the child"s level increases, support/scaffolding decreases. Scaffolding becomes part of the child"s private speech. Extremely effective way to teach children how to solve problems- might not hold across all cognitive contexts. Became more advanced in their cognitive development. Children benefit from working on tasks with same age peers.
