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6 - Scaffolding Self-Reflection

from Part II - The Evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 May 2021

Radu J. Bogdan
Affiliation:
Tulane University, New York
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The adaptive response to the external pressures and mental challenges encountered by older children takes the form of self-strategizing, as the operational core of a variety of mental activities, such as self-centered planning, plotting one’s actions in a social setting, deliberation concerning self and others, and so on. Self-strategizing consists in factoring and integrating representations of the goals, actions and mental states of others into those of one’s own goals, mental states and attitudes. To be adaptive and effective, self-strategizing must regulate its reflective initiatives relative to the norms, rules and practices of the surrounding culture as well as the attitudes and reactions of others toward self. This regulatory dimension of self-strategizing is manifested as conscience. The evolution of conscience-regulated self-strategizing assembled and scaffolded the mental architecture of self-reflection for its central role of regulatory supervisor. Section 6.1 introduces the working notion of scaffolding. Section 6.2 is about self-strategizing, and Section 6.3 about conscience.

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Why Me?
The Sociocultural Evolution of a Self-Reflective Mind
, pp. 113 - 135
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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