Social Construction of Mind
- How do contemporary theorists view the relation between biology and culture?
- What are WEIRD societies?
- Why is it a problem that most cognitive development research is performed with children from WEIRD societies?
- Sociocultural psychologists believe that children learn to think primarily from what?
- Vygotsky proposed four interrelated levels from which we should evaluate children’s development – What are they and what do they refer to?
- What are tools of intellectual adaptation/cognitive artifacts?
What are the two types of cognitive artifacts? Give two examples of each. - How can differences in the number naming system of cultures contribute to differences in cognitive skills and math abilities?
- What was one of the most profound tools of intellectual adaptation in the 20th century?
- What does it mean to say someone is a digital native?
- How might being a digital native influence a child’s cognitive development?
- What is scaffolding?
- What is the zone of proximal development?
- How are scaffolding and the zone of proximal development related?
- How does shared remembering influence the cognitive development of
- children from different cultures?
- In what ways do parents influence their child’s cognitive development through reading and other conversation?
- Describe the study of selective attention that used the frame-line test . What did they do? What did they find? What does this suggest about cultural influences on the focus of attention?
- What are some cultural differences in the effects of guided participation?