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Vygotsky's sociocultural development

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Children often use ______ when the task is too difficult and the children don’t know how to proceed.

a)

Inner speech

b)

Internalization

c)

Private speech

2.

Development depends on _______ with people and the tools that culture provides to help form their own view of the world.

a)

language

b)

interactions

c)

instructed learning

3.

Social interactions can stimulate the development process and foster cognitive growth but sometimes they are not useful in _____

a)

transforming thinking

b)

providing information

c)

cultural transmission

4.

The zone of proximal development refers to the difference between what a learner can do without help and what he or she can achieve with guidance and encouragement from ____

a)

an assistant

b)

a regular peer

c)

a skilled partner

5.

In ZDP, students bring their own understandings to social interactions and construct meanings by integrating those understandings with their experiences in the context.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

6.

When peers work on tasks cooperatively, the shared social interactions can serve an (a)   function.

7.

Which strategy below is NOT in reciprocal teaching?

a)

clarifying

b)

Questioning

c)

Summarizing

d)

Responding

8.

Peer-assisted learning can foster academic and social motivation for learning

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

9.

ZDP is a/an…of students’ readiness or intellectual level and shows how learning and development are related.

a)

test

b)

assistant

c)

work

d)

a

10.

Regarding mediation, humans do not act directly on the physical world but rely on _____ which allows us to change the world.

a)

tools

b)

language

c)

pointing