Paul's mother has been teaching him to bake bread. She tells him, "I will help you follow the recipe a few more times, but soon you will have to try it on your own." According to Vygotsky's sociocultural theory, Paul's mother is engaging in?

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Answer:

Scaffolding.  

Explanation:

Scaffolding: The term has been used first by the psychologist Jerome Bruner during the 1960s. It was proposed by Wood, Bruner, and Ross in 1976.

In psychology, the term scaffolding is defined as a process that involves guidance given either by parents or teachers to describe the ways of solving a specific problem, and after specif interval, they turn back to give any support and hence provide guidance only if needed.

However, the concept of scaffolding is being related to the zone of proximal development given by Vygotsky, as it supports the phenomenon of assisting a learner to perform a task successfully concerning his or her ZPD.

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