A teacher notices that five-year-old Amir talks to himself out loud while he builds a difficult jigsaw. A year later, Amir completes similar jigsaws in silence.
Explain how Vygotsky's (1981) theory of the relationship between language and thought accounts for this change.
48 exam-style questions on Edexcel GCSE Psychology 10.1 Language, thought and communication, covering 10.1.1 Relationship between language and thought, 10.1.2 How thought and language affect views of the world, 10.1.3 Human vs animal communication, 10.1.4 Non-verbal communication examples, and 10.1.5 Explanations of non-verbal communication. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.