Praxis: PLT K-6 Exam Questions and
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Lev Vygotsky - ✔✔-Social Development Theory
- Zone of Proximal Development: Student recieves additional scaffolding to
be successful in mastering a task and moving on
Albert Bandura - ✔✔- Social Learning Theory
- People learn from one another through observation, imitation, and
modeling.
Jerome Bruner - ✔✔- Construcvist Theory
- Learning is an active process in which learners construct new ideas
based upon current/past knowledge.
John Dewey - ✔✔- Pragmatism
- Students learn through a "hands on" approach
Erik Erikson - ✔✔- 8 Stages of Human Development
1. Infancy (0-1) Trust vs. Mistrust
2. Toddler (1-2) Autonomy vs. Doubt
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3. Early Childhood (2-6) Initiative vs. Guilt
4. Elementary and Middle School (6-12)
Competence vs Inferiority
5. Adolescence (12-18) Identity vs. Role Confusion
-Ex. Students are given assignments based on ability levels and provided
with frequent opportunities for success
Carol Gilligan - ✔✔- Proposed stage theory of the moral development of
women
Lawrence Kohlberg - ✔✔- 3 Levels of Moral Development: Morality starts at
an early age and can be affected by several factors
Preconventional: Stage1- Obedience and Punishment
Stage 2- Individualism
Conventional: Stage 3- Gain approval by other
Stage 4- Law and order
Post Conventional: Stage 5- Social Contract
Stage 6- Principled Conscience
Abraham Maslow - ✔✔- Hierarchy of Needs
- Lower most basic needs must be met before the higher needs can be