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NYSTCE: Educating All Students
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Graded Answers
Behaviorism
Ans: people's actions are driven by a need to gain
rewards or avoid punishments.
Reinforcement
Ans: meant to increase a good behavior; a reward
Punishment
Ans: meant to decrease bad behavior
Positive reinforcement
Ans: involves giving someone something that he or
she wants
Negative reinforcement
Ans: taking away something that someone does not
want
Positive punishment
Ans: involves giving someone something that he or
she does not want
Negative punishment
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Ans: involves taking away something that someone
does want
Extinction
Ans: decreases the chances of a response to
something by withdrawing reinforcement of the
behavior; like a reset button
Constructivism
Ans: a philosophy of education that says that people
construct knowledge through their experiences and
interactions with the world
Social learning
Ans: learning through interactions with other people
Vyogtsky's Zone of Proximal Development
Ans: people learn best from other people who are
just a little ahead of them
Project-based learning (PBL)
Ans: focuses on giving an open-ended question and
complex problem to a group of students and having
them figure out the best solution to the problem
4 Steps to PBL
Up to Date Content
NYSTCE: Educating All Students
(EAS) Exam Latest Questions and
Graded Answers
Behaviorism
Ans: people's actions are driven by a need to gain
rewards or avoid punishments.
Reinforcement
Ans: meant to increase a good behavior; a reward
Punishment
Ans: meant to decrease bad behavior
Positive reinforcement
Ans: involves giving someone something that he or
she wants
Negative reinforcement
Ans: taking away something that someone does not
want
Positive punishment
Ans: involves giving someone something that he or
she does not want
Negative punishment
Up to Date Content
, Comprehensive Study 2 Up to Date Content
Ans: involves taking away something that someone
does want
Extinction
Ans: decreases the chances of a response to
something by withdrawing reinforcement of the
behavior; like a reset button
Constructivism
Ans: a philosophy of education that says that people
construct knowledge through their experiences and
interactions with the world
Social learning
Ans: learning through interactions with other people
Vyogtsky's Zone of Proximal Development
Ans: people learn best from other people who are
just a little ahead of them
Project-based learning (PBL)
Ans: focuses on giving an open-ended question and
complex problem to a group of students and having
them figure out the best solution to the problem
4 Steps to PBL
Up to Date Content
