A researcher wants to find out how children’s moral developm…
A researcher wants to find out how children’s moral development, their sense of right and wrong, changes from ages 3 to 5. He looks simultaneously at three groups of children: 3-year-olds, 4-year-olds, and 5-year-olds, presenting each group with the same problem and then seeing how they respond to it and explain their choices. Such an approach typifies _____________________________.
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Vygotsky proposed that children’s cognitive abilities increase through exposure to information that is new enough to be intriguing, but not too difficult to contend with. He called this the zone of _____________________________________, the level at which a child can almost, but not fully, perform a task independently, but can do so with the assistance of someone more competent.
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