How does cognitive development happen according to Vygotsky?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. For Vygotsky, cognitive skills such as language, memory, and problem solving are inseparable from the social and cultural context.
2. Culture provides tools such as verbal instruction or observation that assist children in learning cognitive skills.
3. By interacting with adults who know more about a specific task, children develop cognitive skills.
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Which therapists are likely to play the LEAST active (most subtle) role in conducting therapy?
a. behavior therapists b. cognitive therapists c. group therapists d. psychoanalytic therapists
The tendency of clients in psychoanalysis toproject their attitudes and emotions onto the
therapist as a result of "reliving" some of their unpleasant childhood experiences is called a. projection. b. transference. c. displacement. d. sublimation. e. countertransference.
Which is not a characteristic of working memory?
(a) acoustic code (b) loss due to decay (c) limited capacity (d) short duration (seconds) (e) output to LTM
How would investment model researchers like Rusbult and Martz (1995) explain why battered women often return to their abusive partners?
a. These women might be poor and have no other economic alternative. b. Their abusive partners must reward them in other ways. c. These women are probably in exchange relationships. d. Their partners have battered these women's self-esteem to the basement.