Grades 7-12 PLT Questions And Answers
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Bandura - correct answer. Theorist - "Social Learning Theory" Children learn by
observing others. Model behaviors and skills. Cognitive and Behavioral.
1. attention
2. retention
3. motor reproduction
4. motivation
Bruner - correct answer. Theorist - Cognition - "Constructivist Theory." Discovery
learning and scaffolding. Learning is an active process, learners construct ideas based
on knowledge or past experiences. Instruction should allow students to discover
information by themselves (dialog).
(1) predisposition towards learning, (2) the ways in which a body of knowledge can be
structured so that it can be most readily grasped by the learner, (3) the most effective
sequences in which to present material, and (4) the nature and pacing of rewards and
punishments
Dewey - correct answer. Learning Through Experience and father of progressive
education. Project-based learning, cooperative learning. Learning is a process of living.
Teach children to be problem solvers. "Just Dew it"
Piaget - correct answer. Theorist (Biology and Philosophy) - "Genetic
Epistemology." - wanted to know how knowledge developed in human organisms 4
Stages of Cognitive Development. sensorimotor, preoperations, concrete operations,
and formal operations.
sensorimotor (Piaget) - correct answer. (0-2 years), intelligence takes the form of
motor actions.
preoperations (Piaget) - correct answer. (3-7 years) Intelligence is intuitive in nature.
, concrete operations (Piaget) - correct answer. (8-11 years) Intelligence is logical but
depends upon concrete referents.
formal operations (Piaget) - correct answer. (12-15 years), thinking involves
abstractions.
Assimilation - correct answer. involves the interpretation of events in terms of
existing cognitive structure
accommodation - correct answer. refers to changing the cognitive structure to make
sense of the environment
Vygotsky - correct answer. Theorist - The major theme of Vygotsky's theoretical
framework is that social interaction plays a fundamental role in the development of
cognition. cognitive development depends on Zone of Proximal Development (what the
student can do with help). "social development theory of learning." Cognitive.
Kohlberg - correct answer. Theory of moral development (pre-conventional,
conventional, and post-conventional). theorist
Bloom - correct answer. His taxonomy of learning domains - impact the way
educators writer learning objectives, plan learning activities, and assess student
performance.
Thorndike - correct answer. Connectionism. Learning theorist. (cat in box
experiment)
Law of Effect: any behavior that is followed by pleasant consequences is likely to be
repeated, and any behavior followed by unpleasant consequences is likely to be
stopped.
Learning is the result of associations forming between stimuli and responses. Such
associations or "habits" become strengthened or weakened by the nature and
frequency of the S-R pairings.
Watson - correct answer. Founder of behaviorism (also called learning theory).
controversal - he conditioned fear of white rats and other furry objects in "Little Albert,"
an orphaned 11-month-old boy.
Skinner - correct answer. pioneer of Operant conditioning - believed everything we
do is determined by our past history of reinforcements and punishments.
Erikson - correct answer. Ego Psychologist. discusses psychosocial stages.
Influenced by Freud. Created 8 Psychosocial Stages.
Stage 1 - correct answer. Crisis: Trust vs. mistrust
Virtue: Hope
Age: Infancy 0-1/1.5