The mediator intervenes at three stages. There are eight or nine common problems here. One of them is illustrated by a little nine-year old girl. Feuerstein puts the impulse to just do something at the top of the list. He also says that sometimes people have an episodic view of the world.
Nothing is connected to anything else.
When a stimulus comes, they never see it in a context, because context never mattered. Of the common problems, Feuerstein has developed techniques to help people bridge what they learn to problems they might be experiencing at home. First, you have to examine such things as the mediator's intentions. You'll find that a certain fraction of teachers are there on an ego trip, or for a need to control. I'm afraid that I've done no justice to Feuerstein, since it's impossible to compress this paradigm shift into just a few words.