PSY312H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Lev Vygotsky, Imitative Learning, Intersubjectivity
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Intro: the social world has a profound effect on what children do, on what they think about, and on how they think. Interactions with other individuals provide 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. Sociocultural theories holds that interactions with other people have a profound influence on the course of children"s development. In sociocultural theories, the emphasis is on the child in context as the unit of analysis. 107-140: children"s ability to achieve and maintain intersubjectivity continues to develop through the early childhood years, as they become increasing able to take the perspectives of others. Scaffolding: adults provide social scaffolding to support children"s task performance: allows children to extend the range of their activities and to perform tasks that would be impossible for them to perform alone.
