PSYC 3440 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Cognitive Development, Rosary, Intersubjectivity
1 Dec 2013
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Social world has a profound effect on what children do, on what they think about, and on how they think. Interactions with others provides children with opportunities for learning and help children to perform tasks that they are not able to perform on their own. Central themes of sociocultural approaches to cognitive development: share several common themes. Physiological functioning is mediated by cultural tools including language: two additional themes. Cultural norms and other people influence children"s opportunities for learning. Social and cultural learning require particular cognitive abilities on the parts of learning and teachers. Cognitive development occurs in social interactions: children"s interactions with other people have a profound influence on the course of children"s development, view social environment as integral part of children"s thinking and behaviour. Distance between what a child can do independently, and what the child can do in interaction with an adult or more advance peer.
