Praxis II PLT 7-12 Exam Questions
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Behaviorism - ✔✔learning is a process of accessing and changing associations btw
stimuli and responses (Skinner, Thorndike, & Pavlov)
Social Cognitive Theory - ✔✔Focus on how people learn by observing one another
(Bandura)
Information Processing Theory - ✔✔processes within learners' minds; learning,
memory, and performance
Constructivism - ✔✔people construct or create knowledge based on experiences and
interactions (Piaget & Bruner)
Sociocultural Theory - ✔✔combination of social, cultural, and historical contexts in
which a learner exists influence knowledge construction (Vygotsky)
3 Domains of Bloom's Taxonomy - ✔✔Cognitive, performance/psychomotor, affective
Cognitive Domain (low ---> high) - ✔✔knowledge, comprehension, application,
analysis, synthesis, evaluation
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,Performance/Psychomotor Domain (low --->high) - ✔✔perception, set, guided
responses, mechanism, complex overt responses, adaptation, origination
Affective Domain (low ---> high) - ✔✔receiving phenomena, responding to phenomena,
valuing, organization, internalizing values
Bandura - ✔✔social/observational learning theory; children learn by observing others;
MODELING/learning vicariously
Distributed Cognition - ✔✔Bandura; a person can learn more from a group than s/he
can alone
Bruner - ✔✔discovery learning and scaffolding
Dewey - ✔✔learning through experience; individuality, freedom of expression, project-
based learning, problem solving
Erickson (7-12 Only) - ✔✔Adolescence (12-18)--identity v. role confusion, creating a
sense of identity
Gilligan - ✔✔stages of the ethics of care; female-centered
Kohlberg - ✔✔Theory of Moral Reasoning; 9-20 = conventional (good boy/girl, law and
order)
Maslow - ✔✔Hierarchy of Needs; lower needs must be met before higher needs can be
satisfied (psychological --> safety --> love/belonging --> esteem --> self-actualization)
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, Montessori - ✔✔"follow the child"; introduce a concept, process / develop
understanding, "knowing"
Piaget (7-12 Only) - ✔✔Formal operational (11+)--use reason in hypothetical situations,
use of abstract thought
Skinner - ✔✔Operant conditioning; learning is a function of change in observable
behavior
Vygotsky - ✔✔zone of proximal development; socialization is key to learning
accomodation - ✔✔responding to a new event or object by changing an existing scheme
or creating a new scheme
assimilation - ✔✔responding to a new event or object that is consistent with an existing
scheme
classical conditioning - ✔✔Pavlov; process of behavior modification that causes a
person to respond in a desired manner to what was once a neutral stimulus
conservation - ✔✔knowing that a number or amount stays the same when rearranged
or presented in a different shape
convergent thinking - ✔✔a process of gathering pieces of information to solve a
problem
creativity - ✔✔new and original behavior that creates a culturally appropriate product
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Behaviorism - ✔✔learning is a process of accessing and changing associations btw
stimuli and responses (Skinner, Thorndike, & Pavlov)
Social Cognitive Theory - ✔✔Focus on how people learn by observing one another
(Bandura)
Information Processing Theory - ✔✔processes within learners' minds; learning,
memory, and performance
Constructivism - ✔✔people construct or create knowledge based on experiences and
interactions (Piaget & Bruner)
Sociocultural Theory - ✔✔combination of social, cultural, and historical contexts in
which a learner exists influence knowledge construction (Vygotsky)
3 Domains of Bloom's Taxonomy - ✔✔Cognitive, performance/psychomotor, affective
Cognitive Domain (low ---> high) - ✔✔knowledge, comprehension, application,
analysis, synthesis, evaluation
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,Performance/Psychomotor Domain (low --->high) - ✔✔perception, set, guided
responses, mechanism, complex overt responses, adaptation, origination
Affective Domain (low ---> high) - ✔✔receiving phenomena, responding to phenomena,
valuing, organization, internalizing values
Bandura - ✔✔social/observational learning theory; children learn by observing others;
MODELING/learning vicariously
Distributed Cognition - ✔✔Bandura; a person can learn more from a group than s/he
can alone
Bruner - ✔✔discovery learning and scaffolding
Dewey - ✔✔learning through experience; individuality, freedom of expression, project-
based learning, problem solving
Erickson (7-12 Only) - ✔✔Adolescence (12-18)--identity v. role confusion, creating a
sense of identity
Gilligan - ✔✔stages of the ethics of care; female-centered
Kohlberg - ✔✔Theory of Moral Reasoning; 9-20 = conventional (good boy/girl, law and
order)
Maslow - ✔✔Hierarchy of Needs; lower needs must be met before higher needs can be
satisfied (psychological --> safety --> love/belonging --> esteem --> self-actualization)
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, Montessori - ✔✔"follow the child"; introduce a concept, process / develop
understanding, "knowing"
Piaget (7-12 Only) - ✔✔Formal operational (11+)--use reason in hypothetical situations,
use of abstract thought
Skinner - ✔✔Operant conditioning; learning is a function of change in observable
behavior
Vygotsky - ✔✔zone of proximal development; socialization is key to learning
accomodation - ✔✔responding to a new event or object by changing an existing scheme
or creating a new scheme
assimilation - ✔✔responding to a new event or object that is consistent with an existing
scheme
classical conditioning - ✔✔Pavlov; process of behavior modification that causes a
person to respond in a desired manner to what was once a neutral stimulus
conservation - ✔✔knowing that a number or amount stays the same when rearranged
or presented in a different shape
convergent thinking - ✔✔a process of gathering pieces of information to solve a
problem
creativity - ✔✔new and original behavior that creates a culturally appropriate product
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