CD 424 MIDTERM EXAM WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
ARTICLES - ANSWER
The cultural nature of human development- Development as participation, ch. 2 -
ANSWER Rogoff
-bronfenbrenner was interested in specifying the properties and conditions of the social
and physical environments that foster or undermine dev within peoples ecological
niches
bronfenbrenners ecological system - ANSWER -microsystem
-mesosystem
-exosystem
-macrosystem
The cultural nature of human development - Orienting Concepts and ways of
understanding the cultural nature of human development, ch. 1 - ANSWER Rogoff
-focuses on:
*moving beyond ethnocentrism to consider different perspectives
*considering diverse foals of dev
*recognize the value of knowledge of both insiders and outsiders of specific cultural
communities
*systematically and open-mindedly revising our inevitable local understandings so that
they become more encompassing
Playing with knives: The socialization of self-initiated learners - ANSWER Lancy
-other cultures let their children play with tools such as knives "how will they learn to
use it if they never use it"
-swing them around, cut with them, put them in their mouth -- they may be given dull
knives for precaution
-themes such as value of autonomy, learning to use tools, watch and try it out, play and
, learning
ontogenesis - ANSWER the development of an individual organism or anatomical or
behavioral feature from the earliest stage to maturity.
The ontogeny of cultural learning - ANSWER Harris and Legare .. how cultural learning
develops
-Interdisciplinary programs of research are needed to provide a cross-cultural and
mixed-methodological approach to examine the ontogeny of cultural learning
-We have argued that children everywhere are likely to draw on a similar repertoire of
cultural learning strategies. Nevertheless, there is also evidence that children's cultural
environment can significantly impact the deployment of those strategies.
Cultural Learning Redux - ANSWER Tomasello
-imitative learning, collaborative learning, instructed learning
-children do not just imitate but overimitate in order to identify and affiliate with others in
their cultural group
-children learn from teaching not just episodic facts but the generic structure of their
cultural worlds
-children collaboratively co -construct with those in their culture normative rules for
doing things
The main amendment to Tomasello et al.'s (1993) theory of cultural learning is that ... -
ANSWER children do not just learn useful things from others, but rather they experience
from others in their culture normative pressures to conform, and they are pre- disposed
to accede to these pressures.
Transitions: the development of children of immigrants - ANSWER Suarex-Orozco,
Abo-Zena, Marks
-experience of immigrant-origin children from a child centric point of view
-immigrating is growth enhancing yet stressful
-immigrant paradox: immigrants who live in the poorest neighborhoods and attend
ARTICLES - ANSWER
The cultural nature of human development- Development as participation, ch. 2 -
ANSWER Rogoff
-bronfenbrenner was interested in specifying the properties and conditions of the social
and physical environments that foster or undermine dev within peoples ecological
niches
bronfenbrenners ecological system - ANSWER -microsystem
-mesosystem
-exosystem
-macrosystem
The cultural nature of human development - Orienting Concepts and ways of
understanding the cultural nature of human development, ch. 1 - ANSWER Rogoff
-focuses on:
*moving beyond ethnocentrism to consider different perspectives
*considering diverse foals of dev
*recognize the value of knowledge of both insiders and outsiders of specific cultural
communities
*systematically and open-mindedly revising our inevitable local understandings so that
they become more encompassing
Playing with knives: The socialization of self-initiated learners - ANSWER Lancy
-other cultures let their children play with tools such as knives "how will they learn to
use it if they never use it"
-swing them around, cut with them, put them in their mouth -- they may be given dull
knives for precaution
-themes such as value of autonomy, learning to use tools, watch and try it out, play and
, learning
ontogenesis - ANSWER the development of an individual organism or anatomical or
behavioral feature from the earliest stage to maturity.
The ontogeny of cultural learning - ANSWER Harris and Legare .. how cultural learning
develops
-Interdisciplinary programs of research are needed to provide a cross-cultural and
mixed-methodological approach to examine the ontogeny of cultural learning
-We have argued that children everywhere are likely to draw on a similar repertoire of
cultural learning strategies. Nevertheless, there is also evidence that children's cultural
environment can significantly impact the deployment of those strategies.
Cultural Learning Redux - ANSWER Tomasello
-imitative learning, collaborative learning, instructed learning
-children do not just imitate but overimitate in order to identify and affiliate with others in
their cultural group
-children learn from teaching not just episodic facts but the generic structure of their
cultural worlds
-children collaboratively co -construct with those in their culture normative rules for
doing things
The main amendment to Tomasello et al.'s (1993) theory of cultural learning is that ... -
ANSWER children do not just learn useful things from others, but rather they experience
from others in their culture normative pressures to conform, and they are pre- disposed
to accede to these pressures.
Transitions: the development of children of immigrants - ANSWER Suarex-Orozco,
Abo-Zena, Marks
-experience of immigrant-origin children from a child centric point of view
-immigrating is growth enhancing yet stressful
-immigrant paradox: immigrants who live in the poorest neighborhoods and attend
