Vgoatsky believed that social interaction is the best way for children to learn. His way of thinking was geared that children learn from why they see. Meaning that if a child saw you pick your nose then that child is more likely to his/her nose to see what is does. That biggest way we as humans learn is through observation of others. Along with the social aspect seeing others learn from the mistakes teaches us all that we should not make the same mistake. Example is cops we see cops and see how these guys are dumb for running from the police as we see these people getting arrested we learn from what happened to that person. From learning that if you were to get pulled over you might think back to the cops show and not run because you already know what's going to happen from tour social learning.

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Vgoatsky believed and promoted that childrens development is geared and supported by social interaction. These social interactions help the child learn for themselves and how to act in society. These types of learning interactions are seen in the zone of proximal development. Guided participation, scaffolding, and apprentice in thinking are ways children can develop through social interactions.

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Vygotsky stressed social aspects of childhood cognition. He said children learn by participating in various experiences, with help from more knowledgeable individuals. He also believed in scaffolding, which allows children to master one skill at a time, rather than all at once. Private speech was another thing Vygotsky believe in. Private speech was used to describe when someone talks to themselves. This helps because it is allowing the child to explain, review, and get a better understanding of the current situation going on.

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This example is very much like Rogoff's example with the Mayan girls making tortillas. My aunt has taught my cousin to make homemade pizza in much the same way. She makes the crust from scratch and lets him help roll it out and knead it. Apprentice in thinking is happening because she has been making pizzas this way for many years so she is more skilled than he is. She uses guided participation to teach him what he needs to do, when it needs more flour, and its size, etc. He is able to roll out the dough as well as he does because she has been teaching him at his ZPD, the level of the activity that he can do with her help. Scaffolding is also at work because as he has gotten more skilled she helps him less with his pizza and uses the time to work on a seperate one of her own.

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Vygostky held that children follow apprenticeship thinking. Their cognition is stimulated by helping older peers, who are more skilled, with at task. This is why it seems almost innate for children to ask "why". They learn from helping and watching those around them. This kind of learning morphs into something else Vygostky believed in called scaffolding. This is when the child is doing the activity and is helped along by the adult. However, the adult or peer lessens the help the longer the child does the activity. This gives the child interaction with their peers while teaching them how to complete a task on their own. It's important for the child to learn how to do things on their own without someone to do it for them. Children also use what Vygotsky would call "private speech." They talk to themselves in their heads or out loud to help work through a decision or a task. This can help them retain memories better and see the task more clearly.

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One of Vygotsky's main theories of cognitive development is that of guided participation with the help of zone of proximal development. More knowledgable people in society use guided participation to teach their children, grandchildren, neices, nephews, younger siblings, etc. With this comes knowledge of the child's zone of proximal development. A father knows when to let go of the back of the bike. A mother knows when to let a child walk across the street without holding your hand. Knowing a child's ZPD helps to be able to better participate in guided participation and helps the child get the best cognitive development out of it.

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Vygotsky believed that children are "apprentences in thinking" that they are constantly learning from adults and siblings around them. other parts of his theory are that children learn by scaffolding, which is what a child is able to do with the assistance of a skilled adult. there is also guided practice, going step by step with an adult, and there is when children talk themselves through certain activities, or other things. children are very social, and need social interaction to be able to learn and grow into functional adults.