"Daddy, can you help me get dressed?" Boris asked his father. "You can put on your pants and socks by yourself, but I'll help with your shirt and shoes," his father said. From Vygotsky's theory, Boris's father is using ____ when he does not give his son help on skills that his son has already mastered

a. concrete schemes
b. the zone of proximal development
c. scaffolding
d. the principle of cardinality


c

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