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yoooooman

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Vygotsky believed that language is instrumental in advancing a child's thinking, specifically through private speech and social mediation. Explain each of these two methods of advancing thinking, and offer an example of each.
 
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Question 2

Differentiate between the two phenomena of theory-theory and theory of mind. How do young children exhibit and use these two different phenomena in their attempts to understand the world?
 
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shoemake

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Reply #1 on: Jun 22, 2018
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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