According to Vygotsky, if a child receives assistance, she or he may improve substantially more than another child who does not receive help. The assistance or structuring provided by others is what Vygotsky called __________.

A. successive approximations
B. scaffolding
C. scripting
D. mentoring

Answer: B

Psychology

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a) basic; basic b) basic; individual c) subordinate; basic d) individual; basic

Psychology

According to Canadian psychologists Steiger and Israel (1999 ), psychodynamic models interpreted symptoms of anorexia from a _________ perspective while contemporary models interpreted symptoms of anorexia from a _________ perspective

a) conflict; deficit b) enmeshment; overprotectiveness c) deficit; conflict d) overprotectiveness; enmeshment

Psychology