Praxis II PLT 7-12 Practice Questions and Complete Solutions

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 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