Social influences on children's cognition: state of the art and future directions.

Publisher Summary This chapter reviews research on the relationship between social interaction and cognitive development. It proposes a framework that allows to explain a wide range of findings and to hypothesize about the nature of changes in social influence across development. Although it argues that social interaction may facilitate cognitive development, it also point to some limitations of this facilitation. The chapter acknowledges important individual differences in participation and in the effects of social influence and suggests that some tasks are more amenable to collaborative learning than others. The goal is to incorporate the available data into a developmental framework for studying and evaluating social influences on cognition. A theoretical overview of approaches to the study of social influences on children's cognition is presented. The chapter offers a preliminary framework for conceptualizing social influences across development and discusses some additional issues that need to be considered when studying social influences on cognition.

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