According to _________, it is important to understand the social processes and influence of the cultural context on children's thinking.

Lev Vygotsky's sociocultural theory emphasizes that cognitive development is fundamentally shaped by social interactions and the cultural context in which a child grows up. He argued that learning is a social process and that culture provides the tools of thought. Kohlberg focused on moral development, Piaget emphasized universal stages of individual cognitive construction, and Bandura focused on social learning through observation.