Multiple choice

According to Vygotsky, children’s thought structures develop from _________.

  1. the language they hear around them

  2. their attempts to modify their own internal schemes

  3. their own experimentation with characteristics in the environment

  4. the biological maturation of their nervous system

  5. all the above
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Explanation

The central theme in Vygotsky’s theory is that children acquire cognitive structures from their culture and from their social interactions, primarily by listening to the language they hear around them.

Social speech is the speech that we hear as people talk around us. According to Vygotsky, children adopt important parts of social speech and make it their own private speech—the speech children say aloud to themselves.

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