Praxis PLT 5-9 Exam Questions and
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Task Analysis - ✔✔Breaking down a task to basic or fundamental subskills
Bloom's 3 domains of learning - ✔✔Cognitive- mental skills, knowledge
Affective- feelings, emotions
Psychomotor- manual, physical skills
Cooperative Learning groups - ✔✔An instructional strategy where students with
varying abilities are grouped together. Each student is given a specific job as part of the
group.
Self-Determination Theory - ✔✔Developed by Edward Deci and Richard Ryan
Concerned with personality and motivation.
3 psychological needs: competence, relatedness, and autonomy.
Holistic Rubric - ✔✔Measures overall performance on projects
Analytical Rubric - ✔✔Measures specific compenents
Flow Chart - ✔✔Shows steps for completing a task
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,Working Memory - ✔✔Puts info to immediate use
Attribution - ✔✔What people perceive the causes of success or failure to be.
Cognition - ✔✔The process of thinking and reasoning
Connectionism - ✔✔Theory based on idea of neural networks in the brain. memory is
described as connections of elements and links. Processing occurs in the elements.
Bloom's Taxonomy - ✔✔Remember-Knowledge- recall facts, define, list, state.
Understand- Comprehend- Explain ideas or concepts. Classify, describe, discuss.
Apply-Application- Use info in new situations. Solve, use, demonstrate.
Analyze-draw connections among ideas/examine in detail. Differentiate, organize,
compare/contrast.
Evaluate-Justify a stand or decision. Argue, defend, critique.
Create-Synthesis- Change or create something new.
Theory of Moral Development - ✔✔Lawrence Kohlberg.
Stemmed from Piaget's theory of moral reasoning.
Stages: Pre-conventional- obedience, self-interest
Conventional- social norms, order.
Post-conventional- ethics
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, Kohlberg told stories to children of different ages, presented a moral dilemma with
choices. Most well known story was about a man and his dying wife. He documented
how moral reasoning changed with age.
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - ✔✔Identifies physiological and psychological needs.
Basic needs: Physiological- food, water, warmth, rest.
Safety- security of environment.
Psychological needs: Belonging and love- intimacy, relationship, friends, family.
Esteem- respect, confidence.
Self-Fulfillment need: Self-actualization- morality, achieving one's potential, creativity.
Piaget's Stages of cognitive development - ✔✔Sensorimotor- birth to 2yrs. Object
permanence.
Preoperational- 2-7yrs. Egocentric, think symbolically.
Concrete- 7-11 yrs. Considered a major turning point. Marks beginning of
logical/operational thought. Trial and error.
Formal Operational- 11 and up. Able to think abstractly and test hypotheses.
Edward Thorndike - ✔✔A behaviorist who developed operant conditioning. This
included the law of effect, which explains that people are more likely to choose
behavior with enjoyable consequences. Skinner expanded this law with reinforcement.
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Answers 100% Pass
Task Analysis - ✔✔Breaking down a task to basic or fundamental subskills
Bloom's 3 domains of learning - ✔✔Cognitive- mental skills, knowledge
Affective- feelings, emotions
Psychomotor- manual, physical skills
Cooperative Learning groups - ✔✔An instructional strategy where students with
varying abilities are grouped together. Each student is given a specific job as part of the
group.
Self-Determination Theory - ✔✔Developed by Edward Deci and Richard Ryan
Concerned with personality and motivation.
3 psychological needs: competence, relatedness, and autonomy.
Holistic Rubric - ✔✔Measures overall performance on projects
Analytical Rubric - ✔✔Measures specific compenents
Flow Chart - ✔✔Shows steps for completing a task
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,Working Memory - ✔✔Puts info to immediate use
Attribution - ✔✔What people perceive the causes of success or failure to be.
Cognition - ✔✔The process of thinking and reasoning
Connectionism - ✔✔Theory based on idea of neural networks in the brain. memory is
described as connections of elements and links. Processing occurs in the elements.
Bloom's Taxonomy - ✔✔Remember-Knowledge- recall facts, define, list, state.
Understand- Comprehend- Explain ideas or concepts. Classify, describe, discuss.
Apply-Application- Use info in new situations. Solve, use, demonstrate.
Analyze-draw connections among ideas/examine in detail. Differentiate, organize,
compare/contrast.
Evaluate-Justify a stand or decision. Argue, defend, critique.
Create-Synthesis- Change or create something new.
Theory of Moral Development - ✔✔Lawrence Kohlberg.
Stemmed from Piaget's theory of moral reasoning.
Stages: Pre-conventional- obedience, self-interest
Conventional- social norms, order.
Post-conventional- ethics
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, Kohlberg told stories to children of different ages, presented a moral dilemma with
choices. Most well known story was about a man and his dying wife. He documented
how moral reasoning changed with age.
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - ✔✔Identifies physiological and psychological needs.
Basic needs: Physiological- food, water, warmth, rest.
Safety- security of environment.
Psychological needs: Belonging and love- intimacy, relationship, friends, family.
Esteem- respect, confidence.
Self-Fulfillment need: Self-actualization- morality, achieving one's potential, creativity.
Piaget's Stages of cognitive development - ✔✔Sensorimotor- birth to 2yrs. Object
permanence.
Preoperational- 2-7yrs. Egocentric, think symbolically.
Concrete- 7-11 yrs. Considered a major turning point. Marks beginning of
logical/operational thought. Trial and error.
Formal Operational- 11 and up. Able to think abstractly and test hypotheses.
Edward Thorndike - ✔✔A behaviorist who developed operant conditioning. This
included the law of effect, which explains that people are more likely to choose
behavior with enjoyable consequences. Skinner expanded this law with reinforcement.
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