PPR - Competency 1 UPDATED ACTUAL
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Competency 001 - CORRECT ANSWER - The teacher understands human development
processes and allies this knowledge to plan instruction and ongoing assessment that motivate
students and are responsive to their developmental characteristics and needs.
Jean Piaget created what? - CORRECT ANSWER - The Stage of Cognitive Development
Sensorimotor Defintion - CORRECT ANSWER - A reality-bases world in which the infant
positions himself or herself at the center of the world and learns by processing the impact of his
it her actions on the environment.
Sensorimotor cognitive characteristics - CORRECT ANSWER - -Reality-bases schemes
(ex. sucking as a reflex to sucking as a means of learning about new objects)
-Centrism
-Object permanence
Sensorimotor age range - CORRECT ANSWER - Birth to two
Sensorimotor explanation - CORRECT ANSWER - -Experience processed by reaching,
grasping, and moving about
-Experience centered on the child's own body
-The child gradually learning that objects exist even if out of sight
Preoperational age range - CORRECT ANSWER - Preschool years
Preoperational cognitive characteristics - CORRECT ANSWER - -Language development
(ex. understood by people beyond their family circle)
-Symbolic functions (ex. words, images, gestures, and recall)
, -Symbolic play (ex. pretending ordinary objects mean something else or acting out scenarios in
which they play a character)
-Egocentrism
Preoperational explanation - CORRECT ANSWER - -Intentional use of language;
acquisition of language structures
-Representational thought: child can represent objects and events removed in time and space
-Play demonstrates increasing imaginative capacity
-Inability to understand another's perspective
Concrete operational defintion - CORRECT ANSWER - Thinking becomes more
sophisticated but is still largely based on concrete objects and immediate situations.
Concrete operational age range - CORRECT ANSWER - Elementary grade years
Concrete operational cognitive characterisitics - CORRECT ANSWER - -Conservation
(understanding that objects conserve their mass or volume when they are transferred to or
transformed into different shapes)
-Class inclusion (subdivide objects into subsets)
-Seriation (the ability to arrange or order objects on the basis of a single characteristic)
-Decentering (child begins to move from seeing themselves as the center and begins to see
themselves objectively positioned among other people and within an environment)
Concrete operational explanation - CORRECT ANSWER - -Understanding that format or
shape do not affect mass
-Recognizing of subset relationships
-Ordering ability
-Integration of self into physical and social environment
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Competency 001 - CORRECT ANSWER - The teacher understands human development
processes and allies this knowledge to plan instruction and ongoing assessment that motivate
students and are responsive to their developmental characteristics and needs.
Jean Piaget created what? - CORRECT ANSWER - The Stage of Cognitive Development
Sensorimotor Defintion - CORRECT ANSWER - A reality-bases world in which the infant
positions himself or herself at the center of the world and learns by processing the impact of his
it her actions on the environment.
Sensorimotor cognitive characteristics - CORRECT ANSWER - -Reality-bases schemes
(ex. sucking as a reflex to sucking as a means of learning about new objects)
-Centrism
-Object permanence
Sensorimotor age range - CORRECT ANSWER - Birth to two
Sensorimotor explanation - CORRECT ANSWER - -Experience processed by reaching,
grasping, and moving about
-Experience centered on the child's own body
-The child gradually learning that objects exist even if out of sight
Preoperational age range - CORRECT ANSWER - Preschool years
Preoperational cognitive characteristics - CORRECT ANSWER - -Language development
(ex. understood by people beyond their family circle)
-Symbolic functions (ex. words, images, gestures, and recall)
, -Symbolic play (ex. pretending ordinary objects mean something else or acting out scenarios in
which they play a character)
-Egocentrism
Preoperational explanation - CORRECT ANSWER - -Intentional use of language;
acquisition of language structures
-Representational thought: child can represent objects and events removed in time and space
-Play demonstrates increasing imaginative capacity
-Inability to understand another's perspective
Concrete operational defintion - CORRECT ANSWER - Thinking becomes more
sophisticated but is still largely based on concrete objects and immediate situations.
Concrete operational age range - CORRECT ANSWER - Elementary grade years
Concrete operational cognitive characterisitics - CORRECT ANSWER - -Conservation
(understanding that objects conserve their mass or volume when they are transferred to or
transformed into different shapes)
-Class inclusion (subdivide objects into subsets)
-Seriation (the ability to arrange or order objects on the basis of a single characteristic)
-Decentering (child begins to move from seeing themselves as the center and begins to see
themselves objectively positioned among other people and within an environment)
Concrete operational explanation - CORRECT ANSWER - -Understanding that format or
shape do not affect mass
-Recognizing of subset relationships
-Ordering ability
-Integration of self into physical and social environment
