What was Vygotsky's major contribution to the field of child development?
What will be an ideal response?
A good answer will include the following key points:
• Role of cultural in individual child's development
• The importance of social interactions among members of a culture
• Emphasis on reciprocal transactions
• people in the child's environment influence the child as the child also influences the people in their environment
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An average bird has feathers, a bill, and wings. This is consistent with the:
A. set theory B. heuristic theory C. exemplar theory D. prototype theory
For the within-subjects design, we will also need ______for each subject across the conditions to calculate our error term.
A. t scores B. p values C. z scores D. means
Fewer people know their neighbors since air conditioning leads more people to stay inside during the summer. Which of the following is air conditioning related to?
A. sense of identity B. functional distance C. safety D. physical constraints
Perry (1981) proposed qualitative differences in adolescents’ epistemological knowledge with development. If one believes there is a set of right and wrong answers that, for example, authority figures know, and their job is to learn those answers from teachers, they are in which stage?
a. dualism b. multiplism c. relativism d. transition