week 4

Question 1

Sociocultural cognition

Answer 1

development is not done in stages
Learning is a social activity
Children are social creatures and their cognitive development depends upon the tools provided by society
Minds are shaped by cultural context

Question 2

Culture and meaning language

Answer 2

We create tools to help aid in development
Different words will have different symbols and meanings

Question 3

The journey to dialogic thought

Answer 3

Social speech- the speech you hear every day in conversation as an infant
Private speech- self-directed speech used for things such as self-regulation, or fantasy play
Inner speech- the dialogue in your head that runs as you think

Question 4

Vygotsky’s thoughts on language

Answer 4

Speech is major tool for thinking
Complex mental activities begin as basic social activities
First years are integral because this is when thought and language fuse

Question 5

Zone of proximal development

Answer 5

Tasks too difficult for one to master alone can be mastered with assistance
Scaffolding-assistance provided by another, cognitive apprenticeship

Question 6

Piaget

Answer 6

Development happens in stages
Development is universally the same
Driven by ability to adapt

Question 7

Vygotsky

Answer 7

development is an incline
development differs across culture
driven by social interaction with caregivers and peers

Question 8

Piaget leaning and language

Answer 8

children will only learn when ready
cognitive development proceeded language development
Language is child’s way of representing familiar word

Question 9

Vygotsky learning and language

Answer 9

learning can be influenced and accelerated
we need language for cognitive development to happen
thought and language are fused

Question 10

problems for Vygotskian theory

Answer 10

Vygotsky never tested any of his theories and the grand theory is arguably not testable
The ZPD is unclear and does not take into account a child’s motivation or learning needs
Conceptualisation of play was based on rule based play, and he did not consider imagination and how this is a higher order function

Question 11

iPad versus book

Answer 11

Technology provides more dynamic engagement
New discourse conventions
technology has potential to change how learners construct and understand the world
It may create new different interaction conventions

Question 12

Ipad study

Answer 12

Method: participants 2 dyads: 33 month old child and mother
41 month child with younger sister and mother
Given iPad with pre-loaded story telling apps

Results: qualitative coding and analysis, Deductive -inductive coding based on Vygotsky learning theory
Three comprehensive themes were found

Question 13

Realistic fiction

Answer 13

Parent taking day to day contents of the story and using them as a concrete entry point into the story world

Question 14

Scaffolding variations

Answer 14

Parents scaffolded in various verbal ways

Question 15

Engaged players as objects of play

Answer 15

Both participants in the dyad were actively engaged in the storytelling process
because of modality

Question 16

Private speech playful and non-playful context

Answer 16

Development and learning is socially and verbally mediated

Question 17

Play and motivation

Answer 17

2 conditions 1)stand still, 2)you are a guard, stand still and watch this
Children more likely to remember more from the same grocery list while playing grocery shopping than just when asked to remember