LETRS EARLY CHILDHOOD ACTUAL EXAM
SOLVED QUESTIONS COMPLETE
PREPARATION RESOURCE
●● Sensory Motor
Answer: Jean Piaget, first stage of development, birth-toddler, children
begin to understand their senses
●● Pre-Operational
Answer: Jean Piaget, second stage of development, children begin to
understand symbols, lasts until early elementary school 2-6 years old,
make believe play, thinking is intuitive as they are "egocentric"
●● Concrete Operations
Answer: Jean Piaget, third stage of development, lasts until late
elementary, learn to manipulate symbols, objects, and other elements
example: displacement of water
●● Formal Operations
Answer: Jean Piaget, fourth stage of development, adolescent/early teen-
-> adulthood, allows critical thinking, hypothesis, systematic
organization or knowledge, and more
,●● Benjamin Bloom
Answer: detailed classification of critical thinking and learning
skills/objectives into tiered levels from simplest to highest. Goal is for
teachers to teach @ all levels of thinking: knowledge,
understanding/comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis,
evaluation
●● Knowledge
Answer: Bloom's 1st level, most basic level of learning, learn terms and
facts: define, label, recall, memorize, list
●● Understanding/Comprehension
Answer: Bloom's 2nd level, requires students to grasp the meaning of a
concept: classify, explain, ID, locate, review
●● Application
Answer: Bloom's 3rd level, take previous learning and use it in a new
way: demonstrate, illustrate, distinguish, write, chose, dramatize
●● Analysis
Answer: Bloom's 4th level, breakdown information into parts and use
those parts: calculate, categorize, compare, contrast, criticize,
distinguished, examine, experiment
,●● Synthesis
Answer: Bloom's 5th level, students take analyzed parts from pervious
level and incorporate them into creating new wholes: collect, compose,
design, manage, plan, organize, formulate
●● Evaluation
Answer: Bloom's 6th level, least achieved/highest level, requires
students to judge value of material based on experience, prior
knowledge, opinions, and/or resulting product- requires them to assess,
appraise, predict, rate, support, evaluate, judge, and argue
●● Lawrence Koglberg
Answer: "Kohlberg Stages of Moral Development": 6 stages grouped
into three levels: pre-conventional, conventional, post-conventional
●● Pre-Conventional
Answer: "Kohlberg Stages of Moral Development"
(Egocentric: up to age nine)
a. punishment/obedience: morality is based on established rules.
Children see that following the rules and/or avoiding negative
consequence defines moral behavior
b. instrumental purpose: whatever satisfies the child is considered moral
by that child
, ●● Conventional
Answer: "Kohlberg Stages of Moral Development"
(Socio-centric: age nine to adolescence)
a. Interpersonal: children begin to understand that good behavior is
expected, and achieving those expectations is moral
b. Social system: adolescents at this stage understand that there is a need
for them to fulfill obligations and expectations, and that this is
considered moral behavior
●● Post-Conventional
Answer: "Kohlberg Stages of Moral Development"
(Adulthood)
a. social contract: we understand that various cultures, as well as
individuals, have different definitions of morality, and good moral
behavior is seen as living up to the moral standards of that person's
social norm
b. Universal Ethical Principles: reasoning is based on ethical fairness
and individuals are able to judge themselves and others based on their
sense of morality
●● Erikson
Answer: Theory that humans go through eight stages of development as
they go from infancy to adulthood: infancy to 12 months- develops trust
and mistrust, young childhood (1-3yrs)-shame, doubt, autonomy, child
wants to be independent, early childhood (3-5yrs)- child learns to initiate
SOLVED QUESTIONS COMPLETE
PREPARATION RESOURCE
●● Sensory Motor
Answer: Jean Piaget, first stage of development, birth-toddler, children
begin to understand their senses
●● Pre-Operational
Answer: Jean Piaget, second stage of development, children begin to
understand symbols, lasts until early elementary school 2-6 years old,
make believe play, thinking is intuitive as they are "egocentric"
●● Concrete Operations
Answer: Jean Piaget, third stage of development, lasts until late
elementary, learn to manipulate symbols, objects, and other elements
example: displacement of water
●● Formal Operations
Answer: Jean Piaget, fourth stage of development, adolescent/early teen-
-> adulthood, allows critical thinking, hypothesis, systematic
organization or knowledge, and more
,●● Benjamin Bloom
Answer: detailed classification of critical thinking and learning
skills/objectives into tiered levels from simplest to highest. Goal is for
teachers to teach @ all levels of thinking: knowledge,
understanding/comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis,
evaluation
●● Knowledge
Answer: Bloom's 1st level, most basic level of learning, learn terms and
facts: define, label, recall, memorize, list
●● Understanding/Comprehension
Answer: Bloom's 2nd level, requires students to grasp the meaning of a
concept: classify, explain, ID, locate, review
●● Application
Answer: Bloom's 3rd level, take previous learning and use it in a new
way: demonstrate, illustrate, distinguish, write, chose, dramatize
●● Analysis
Answer: Bloom's 4th level, breakdown information into parts and use
those parts: calculate, categorize, compare, contrast, criticize,
distinguished, examine, experiment
,●● Synthesis
Answer: Bloom's 5th level, students take analyzed parts from pervious
level and incorporate them into creating new wholes: collect, compose,
design, manage, plan, organize, formulate
●● Evaluation
Answer: Bloom's 6th level, least achieved/highest level, requires
students to judge value of material based on experience, prior
knowledge, opinions, and/or resulting product- requires them to assess,
appraise, predict, rate, support, evaluate, judge, and argue
●● Lawrence Koglberg
Answer: "Kohlberg Stages of Moral Development": 6 stages grouped
into three levels: pre-conventional, conventional, post-conventional
●● Pre-Conventional
Answer: "Kohlberg Stages of Moral Development"
(Egocentric: up to age nine)
a. punishment/obedience: morality is based on established rules.
Children see that following the rules and/or avoiding negative
consequence defines moral behavior
b. instrumental purpose: whatever satisfies the child is considered moral
by that child
, ●● Conventional
Answer: "Kohlberg Stages of Moral Development"
(Socio-centric: age nine to adolescence)
a. Interpersonal: children begin to understand that good behavior is
expected, and achieving those expectations is moral
b. Social system: adolescents at this stage understand that there is a need
for them to fulfill obligations and expectations, and that this is
considered moral behavior
●● Post-Conventional
Answer: "Kohlberg Stages of Moral Development"
(Adulthood)
a. social contract: we understand that various cultures, as well as
individuals, have different definitions of morality, and good moral
behavior is seen as living up to the moral standards of that person's
social norm
b. Universal Ethical Principles: reasoning is based on ethical fairness
and individuals are able to judge themselves and others based on their
sense of morality
●● Erikson
Answer: Theory that humans go through eight stages of development as
they go from infancy to adulthood: infancy to 12 months- develops trust
and mistrust, young childhood (1-3yrs)-shame, doubt, autonomy, child
wants to be independent, early childhood (3-5yrs)- child learns to initiate
