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| material and symbolic tools that accumulate through time and are passed on through social processes and provide resources for the developing child |
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| cultural tools including physical objects and observable patterns of behavior such as family routines and social practices |
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| cultural tools such as abstract knowledge, beliefs, and values |
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All tools of culture are symbolic and material at the same time. |
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| the process through which tools organize people's activities and ways of relating to their environments |
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| the social process in which children are purposefully taught to use the resources of their culture; uses symbolic communication (thus, we do not have to teach things in the present via example; i.e. we can use language to teach US history to kids); animals cannot do this |
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| the most basic social process of learning to use cultural resources, in which resources are used simply because others' activities have made them available in the immediate environment |
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| cumulative cultural evolution |
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| the dynamic ongoing process of cultural change that is a consequence of variation that individuals have produced in the cultural tools they use |
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| the active shaping and modification of individuals' environments by the individuals own behaviors, activities, and choices |
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| the shaping of environments through interactions between children and their caregivers, siblings, neighbors, and friends |
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| the role of cultural factors in determining which phenotypes are adaptive |
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