Praxis Principles of Learning and
Teaching: Grades 7-12 PLT
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Bandura - ✔✔"Social Learning Theory" - Behavior can be learned through the
observations of others. theorist
Bruner - ✔✔Discovery learning and constructivism. theorist
Dewey - ✔✔Learning Through Experience and father of progressive education. theorist
Piaget - ✔✔4 Stages of Cognitive Development. theorist
vygotsky - ✔✔Zone of Proximal Development "social development theory of learning"
theorist
Kohlberg - ✔✔Theory of moral development (pre-conventional, conventional, and post-
conventional). theorist
Bloom - ✔✔Taxonomy of Educational Objectives (cognitive, performance, and affective
domains) theorist
Thorndike - ✔✔Learning theorist. Law of Effect. theorist
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, Watson - ✔✔Founder of behaviorism. theorist.
Skinner - ✔✔pioneer of Operant conditioning - believed everything we do is
determined by our past history of reinforcements and punishments. theorist
Erikson - ✔✔8 stages of human development. theorist.
Metacognition - ✔✔thinking about how you think
Schema - ✔✔an organized cluster of knowledge about a particular object or event
abstracted from previous experience with the object or event.
Transfer - ✔✔The ability to apply a lesson learned in one situation to a new situation.
Self-efficacy - ✔✔A belief that one is capable.
Self-Regulation - ✔✔the ability to control one's learning or behavior
zone of proximal development - ✔✔a range of tasks too difficult for the child to do
alone but possible with the help of adults and more skilled peers.
Operant conditioning - ✔✔A method of influencing behavior by rewarding desired
behaviors and punishing undesired ones
Classical Conditioning - ✔✔A type of learning in which a neutral stimulus acquires the
ability to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus.
Cognitive thinking - ✔✔How we encode, process, store, and retrieve information.
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Teaching: Grades 7-12 PLT
Questions and Answers 100% Pass
Bandura - ✔✔"Social Learning Theory" - Behavior can be learned through the
observations of others. theorist
Bruner - ✔✔Discovery learning and constructivism. theorist
Dewey - ✔✔Learning Through Experience and father of progressive education. theorist
Piaget - ✔✔4 Stages of Cognitive Development. theorist
vygotsky - ✔✔Zone of Proximal Development "social development theory of learning"
theorist
Kohlberg - ✔✔Theory of moral development (pre-conventional, conventional, and post-
conventional). theorist
Bloom - ✔✔Taxonomy of Educational Objectives (cognitive, performance, and affective
domains) theorist
Thorndike - ✔✔Learning theorist. Law of Effect. theorist
Emily Charlene © All Rights Reserved 2025. 1
, Watson - ✔✔Founder of behaviorism. theorist.
Skinner - ✔✔pioneer of Operant conditioning - believed everything we do is
determined by our past history of reinforcements and punishments. theorist
Erikson - ✔✔8 stages of human development. theorist.
Metacognition - ✔✔thinking about how you think
Schema - ✔✔an organized cluster of knowledge about a particular object or event
abstracted from previous experience with the object or event.
Transfer - ✔✔The ability to apply a lesson learned in one situation to a new situation.
Self-efficacy - ✔✔A belief that one is capable.
Self-Regulation - ✔✔the ability to control one's learning or behavior
zone of proximal development - ✔✔a range of tasks too difficult for the child to do
alone but possible with the help of adults and more skilled peers.
Operant conditioning - ✔✔A method of influencing behavior by rewarding desired
behaviors and punishing undesired ones
Classical Conditioning - ✔✔A type of learning in which a neutral stimulus acquires the
ability to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus.
Cognitive thinking - ✔✔How we encode, process, store, and retrieve information.
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