alleryPiaget's own term for the help and teaching a child receives from other people:
AInstructional scaffolding
BGuided participation
CSocial transmission
DMediated learning
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Social transmission
1. Piaget's model of learning is mostly individual: the child constructs knowledge alone.
2. He did recognise that others help, for example by modelling words the child needs.
3. He called this support from others **social transmission**.
4. He gave it little emphasis, which is one reason his theory is seen as about development more than teaching.
5. Scaffolding and guided participation are later terms from the Vygotskian tradition.
**Why not the others:** Instructional scaffolding is Bruner's term, so it is the closest trap but not Piaget's word.
_Source: Seifert and Sutton, Educational Psychology, 2nd ed. (2009, CC BY 3.0), Ch 2, section "Psychological constructivism: the independent investigator", p. 35_
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