sociocultural theory of development

Question 1

socio cultural theory of development

Answer 1

○ Sociocultural theories: shared intentionality and joint attention and scaffolding.
- Humans learn from other people, and we collaborate with others in activities, which allows cultures to develop.

Question 2

shared intentionality

Answer 2

the ability to participate with others in collaborative activity with shared goals and intentions. Eg. Recognize and understand that everyone on the team has a shared goal.

Question 3

joint attention

Answer 3

focusing on the same object or event with the other person, both the child and parent know they are both looking at something (two people aware that the other person is focusing on the same thing)

Question 4

scaffolding

Answer 4

a more competent person provides a temporary framework that supports learning at a higher level than the learner could manage alone. The competent person structures and organizes the activity. Only works when you have established joint attention, and then provide the scaffolding.

Question 6

Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory

Answer 6

there are different levels of understanding, at the base level (what we already know) we reach out past that through scaffolding by providing activities just outside of our knowledge and comfort zone, but the parent can step in when the child no longer knows what to do.

Question 7

infants face scanning

Answer 7

• From birth, infants preferentially look at faces. In the first few months their looking enables them to pick up on cues about emotion, language, and following someone else’s gaze direction.
  Following an adults gaze helps infants participate in joint attention

Question 8

shared intentionality

Answer 8

• Shared intentionality involves interacting with another person and understanding and sharing their psychological states. Acccording to sociocultural theory of cognitive development, share intentionality is the basis for uniquely human cultural cognition,

Question 9

importance of language

Answer 9

children act directly on the physical world. They adapt their current thinking to fit external reality. Language is relatively unimportant in sparking changes in thinking
Vygotsky: cognitive advances are the result of social not independent learning. Adults and older children scaffold children’s learning vial joint activity and co-operative dialogue. Language is crucial as it is the primary means by which children acquire concepts and social meanings. Language opens new cognitive doors and shapes thought.

Question 10

role of language in sociocultural theories of cog dev

Answer 10

• Once children start to use language, they participate in social dialogue with others.
  
  • Dialogue with others while involved in meaningful activity allows children to develop cognitive abilities such as reasoning
  • Once they participate in speech, they start to use it directed towards the self, they call this private speech.
  • Through private speech, children develop self-regulation and problem solving abilities. It is common for 4-6 years.
  • When private speech becomes fully internalized and inaudible, it has become thought,.
    Piaget recognized that pre-school children talk to themselves. But Piaget calls this ‘egocentric’ speech, and assumes that the child is in the preoccupative speech in which they do not understand the POV of others.