Answer to Question 1
Children's thinking is advanced through private speech and social mediation. Private
speech is the internal dialogue that people use when developing ideas, explaining
events to themselves, and so forth. Social mediation is a technique in which thinking
is extended through formal or informal teaching. Various examples of private speech
and social mediation will be offered.
Answer to Question 2
Responses should clearly indicate that theory-theory is an attempt by young children
to understand the world through creation of their own theories about the way things
work, whereas theory of mind is their attempt to understand how other people think
and act as they do.
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