Praxis 5622 Exam Study Guide

schema - Answer- an organized pattern of thought, mental file cabinet familiar information that matches new information Lev Vygotsky - Answer- constructivist theorist, learning is interactive children will learn from one another MKO's - Answer- Vygotsky's term, more knowledgeable others Zone of Proximal Development - Answer- space between independence in a skill and needing help to finish a task Constructivist Theorists - Answer- Lev Vygotsky Jean Piaget John Dewey John Dewey - Answer- learn by doing and learn skills that will be useful in life Jean Piaget - Answer- foundational theorist behind cognitive development knowledge is constructed through 4 developmental stages metacognition - Answer- when a person is aware of how she learns Piaget's four developmental stages - Answer- sensorimotor, pre-operational, concrete operational, formal operational sensorimotor stage - Answer- Piaget's first stage birth to age 2 learning through simple motor and sensory response pre-operational stage - Answer- Piaget's second stage ages 2-7 egocentric, cannot see things from other people's point of view concrete operational stage - Answer- Piaget's third stage ages 7-11 ability to think logically about situations formal operational stage - Answer- Piaget's fourth stage ages 12- adulthood think in abstract and use deductive reasoning inductive logic - Answer- ability to generalize a specific experience into a more general category