Praxis 5623: PLT 5-9 Exam Questions
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Albert Bandura - ✔✔Social learning theory - Learning is a cognitive process that takes
place in a social context and can occur purely through observation and direct
instruction.
Jerome Bruner - ✔✔Discovery Learning - It is best for learners to discover facts and
relationships for themselves.
Constructivism theory - ✔✔Bruner, Vygotsky, Piaget, and Dewey- People construct
their own understanding and knowledge of the world, through experiencing things and
reflecting on those experiences.
John Dewey - ✔✔The father of progressive education.
All for progressive education which emphasized the need to learn by doing. He
believed that human beings learn through "hands on" approach. Project based learning!
Pragmatists - ✔✔They believe that reality must be experienced.
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,Erik Erikson - ✔✔eight stages of psychosocial development in which a healthy
developing individual passes through from infancy to adulthood.
* Theory of psychological development
* Ego identity
Carol Gilligan - ✔✔Females in later stages of moral development tend to favor caring
and compassion over abstract principles.
The ethics of care is a theory about what makes actions morally right or wrong. She has
feminist roots that tie into this.
Lawrence Kohlberg - ✔✔Theory of moral development which states that morality starts
from childhood years and can be affected by several factors. Morality an be developed
either negatively or positively, depending on how an individual accomplishes the tasks
before him during each stage of moral development across lifespan.
Abraham Maslow - ✔✔Hierarchy of needs. Students need to have basic needs met and
feel safe before learning can occur.
Maria Montessori - ✔✔A child centered educational approach. "Follow the hid, they
will show you what they need to do."
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, Jean Piaget - ✔✔Four stages of cognitive development. Children learn through actively
constructing knowledge through hands-on experience - is a description of cognitive
development (sensorimotor pre-operational, concrete, and formal).
B.F. Skinner - ✔✔Developed the theory of operant conditioning - A behaviorist idea that
behavior is determined by its consequences, be they reinforcements or punishments,
which make it more or less likely that the behavior occur again.
Lev Vygotsky - ✔✔Created the Zone of Proximal Development - children learn through
hands-on experience, but unlike Piaget, he claimed that timely and sensitive
intervention by adults when a child is on the edge of learning a new task could help
children learn new tasks. This technique is called "scaffolding," because it builds upon
knowledge children already have with new knowledge that adults can help the child
learn.
Cooperative learning - ✔✔students working in small groups is a successful teaching
strategy in which small teams, each with students of different levels of ability, use a
variety of learning activities to improve their understanding of a subject. Each member
of a team is responsible not only for learning what is taught but also helping.
Teammates learn, thus creating an atmosphere of achievement. Students work through
assignments until all group members successfully understand and complete it.
Direct Instruction - ✔✔Explicit teaching of a skill-set using lectures or demonstrations
of the material, rather than exploratory models such as inquiry-based learning.
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Albert Bandura - ✔✔Social learning theory - Learning is a cognitive process that takes
place in a social context and can occur purely through observation and direct
instruction.
Jerome Bruner - ✔✔Discovery Learning - It is best for learners to discover facts and
relationships for themselves.
Constructivism theory - ✔✔Bruner, Vygotsky, Piaget, and Dewey- People construct
their own understanding and knowledge of the world, through experiencing things and
reflecting on those experiences.
John Dewey - ✔✔The father of progressive education.
All for progressive education which emphasized the need to learn by doing. He
believed that human beings learn through "hands on" approach. Project based learning!
Pragmatists - ✔✔They believe that reality must be experienced.
Emily Charlene © All Rights Reserved 2025. 1
,Erik Erikson - ✔✔eight stages of psychosocial development in which a healthy
developing individual passes through from infancy to adulthood.
* Theory of psychological development
* Ego identity
Carol Gilligan - ✔✔Females in later stages of moral development tend to favor caring
and compassion over abstract principles.
The ethics of care is a theory about what makes actions morally right or wrong. She has
feminist roots that tie into this.
Lawrence Kohlberg - ✔✔Theory of moral development which states that morality starts
from childhood years and can be affected by several factors. Morality an be developed
either negatively or positively, depending on how an individual accomplishes the tasks
before him during each stage of moral development across lifespan.
Abraham Maslow - ✔✔Hierarchy of needs. Students need to have basic needs met and
feel safe before learning can occur.
Maria Montessori - ✔✔A child centered educational approach. "Follow the hid, they
will show you what they need to do."
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, Jean Piaget - ✔✔Four stages of cognitive development. Children learn through actively
constructing knowledge through hands-on experience - is a description of cognitive
development (sensorimotor pre-operational, concrete, and formal).
B.F. Skinner - ✔✔Developed the theory of operant conditioning - A behaviorist idea that
behavior is determined by its consequences, be they reinforcements or punishments,
which make it more or less likely that the behavior occur again.
Lev Vygotsky - ✔✔Created the Zone of Proximal Development - children learn through
hands-on experience, but unlike Piaget, he claimed that timely and sensitive
intervention by adults when a child is on the edge of learning a new task could help
children learn new tasks. This technique is called "scaffolding," because it builds upon
knowledge children already have with new knowledge that adults can help the child
learn.
Cooperative learning - ✔✔students working in small groups is a successful teaching
strategy in which small teams, each with students of different levels of ability, use a
variety of learning activities to improve their understanding of a subject. Each member
of a team is responsible not only for learning what is taught but also helping.
Teammates learn, thus creating an atmosphere of achievement. Students work through
assignments until all group members successfully understand and complete it.
Direct Instruction - ✔✔Explicit teaching of a skill-set using lectures or demonstrations
of the material, rather than exploratory models such as inquiry-based learning.
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