Praxis PLT Exam Questions and
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Behaviorism - ✔✔learning as a process of accessing and changing associations between
stimuli and responses (B.F. Skinner, Edward Thorndike, Ivan Pavlov)
Social Cognitive Theory - ✔✔focuses on the way people learn from observing one
another (Albert Bandura)
Information Processing Theory - ✔✔focuses on what happens inside the learner's mind,
considering the processes of learning, memory and performance; build a student's
declarative, procedural and conditional knowledge
Constructivism - ✔✔people construct or create knowledge based on their experiences
(Jean Piaget, Jerome Bruner)
Individual Constructivism - ✔✔how one person makes meaning
Social Constructivism - ✔✔how people gain knowledge by working together
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,Sociocultural Theory - ✔✔the combination of social, cultural and historical contexts in
which a learner exists have an influence on their knowledge/ways the teacher must
organize instruction (Vygotsky)
Benjamin Bloom - ✔✔Bloom's Taxonomy of learning domains (cognitive, psychomotor,
affective) impact the way educators write lesson objectives, plan learning activities and
asses student performance
Cognitive domain - ✔✔1. Knowledge
2. Comprehension
3. Application
4. Analysis
5. Synthesis(composes, designs, implements)
6. Evaluation: make judgments (assesses, concludes, justifies)
Albert Bandura - ✔✔Social (observational) learning theory: children learn by observing
others
Steps of modeling:
1. Attention: attending to the lesson
2. Retention: remembering what was learned
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,3. Reproduction: Trying a new skill/concept
4. Motivation: willingness to learn/ability to self-regulate behavior
distributed cognition - ✔✔a person is able to learn more with another or in a group than
he or she might be able to do alone;
share thinking as they work together to problem solve (social learning theory)
Jerome Butler - ✔✔believes learning is an active process in which learners construct
new ideas/concepts based on knowledge/past experiences (Discovery learning and
scaffolding)
discovery learning - ✔✔teaching methods that allow a student to discover info by
himself/herself or in a group
Scaffolding - ✔✔involves instructional supports provided to a student by an
adult/more capable peer in a learning situation
John Dewey - ✔✔father of progressive education
-close connection between education and social action in democracy
-students should be taught to become problem solvers
-students should participate in decisions about what they learn
(Modern Period 1920-present)
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, Erik Erikson - ✔✔psychologist who suggested the eight stages of human development
based on a crisis or conflict a person resolves
Erikson's 8 stages of development - ✔✔1. Infancy(0-1): Trust vs. mistrust; Feeding
2. Toddler(1-2): Autonomy vs. doubt; Toilet training
3. Early childhood(2-6): Initiative vs. guilt; Independence
4. Elementary&middle school(6-12): Competence vs. inferiority; School
5. Adolescence(12-18) Identity vs. role confusion; Sense of identity
6. Young adulthood(18-40): Intimacy vs. isolation; Intimate relationships
7. Middle adulthood(40-65): Generativity vs. stagnation; Supporting the next generation
8. Late adulthood(65-death): Integrity vs. despair; Reflection and acceptance
Carol Gilligan - ✔✔Stages of the ethic of care; questions male-centered personality
psychology of Freud and Erikson and Kohlberg's male-centered stages of moral
development
Lawrence Kohlberg - ✔✔Theory of moral development:
Pre-conventional (birth-9):
1. Obedience and punishment
2. Individualism, instrumentalism, exchange
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Answers 100% Pass
Behaviorism - ✔✔learning as a process of accessing and changing associations between
stimuli and responses (B.F. Skinner, Edward Thorndike, Ivan Pavlov)
Social Cognitive Theory - ✔✔focuses on the way people learn from observing one
another (Albert Bandura)
Information Processing Theory - ✔✔focuses on what happens inside the learner's mind,
considering the processes of learning, memory and performance; build a student's
declarative, procedural and conditional knowledge
Constructivism - ✔✔people construct or create knowledge based on their experiences
(Jean Piaget, Jerome Bruner)
Individual Constructivism - ✔✔how one person makes meaning
Social Constructivism - ✔✔how people gain knowledge by working together
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,Sociocultural Theory - ✔✔the combination of social, cultural and historical contexts in
which a learner exists have an influence on their knowledge/ways the teacher must
organize instruction (Vygotsky)
Benjamin Bloom - ✔✔Bloom's Taxonomy of learning domains (cognitive, psychomotor,
affective) impact the way educators write lesson objectives, plan learning activities and
asses student performance
Cognitive domain - ✔✔1. Knowledge
2. Comprehension
3. Application
4. Analysis
5. Synthesis(composes, designs, implements)
6. Evaluation: make judgments (assesses, concludes, justifies)
Albert Bandura - ✔✔Social (observational) learning theory: children learn by observing
others
Steps of modeling:
1. Attention: attending to the lesson
2. Retention: remembering what was learned
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,3. Reproduction: Trying a new skill/concept
4. Motivation: willingness to learn/ability to self-regulate behavior
distributed cognition - ✔✔a person is able to learn more with another or in a group than
he or she might be able to do alone;
share thinking as they work together to problem solve (social learning theory)
Jerome Butler - ✔✔believes learning is an active process in which learners construct
new ideas/concepts based on knowledge/past experiences (Discovery learning and
scaffolding)
discovery learning - ✔✔teaching methods that allow a student to discover info by
himself/herself or in a group
Scaffolding - ✔✔involves instructional supports provided to a student by an
adult/more capable peer in a learning situation
John Dewey - ✔✔father of progressive education
-close connection between education and social action in democracy
-students should be taught to become problem solvers
-students should participate in decisions about what they learn
(Modern Period 1920-present)
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, Erik Erikson - ✔✔psychologist who suggested the eight stages of human development
based on a crisis or conflict a person resolves
Erikson's 8 stages of development - ✔✔1. Infancy(0-1): Trust vs. mistrust; Feeding
2. Toddler(1-2): Autonomy vs. doubt; Toilet training
3. Early childhood(2-6): Initiative vs. guilt; Independence
4. Elementary&middle school(6-12): Competence vs. inferiority; School
5. Adolescence(12-18) Identity vs. role confusion; Sense of identity
6. Young adulthood(18-40): Intimacy vs. isolation; Intimate relationships
7. Middle adulthood(40-65): Generativity vs. stagnation; Supporting the next generation
8. Late adulthood(65-death): Integrity vs. despair; Reflection and acceptance
Carol Gilligan - ✔✔Stages of the ethic of care; questions male-centered personality
psychology of Freud and Erikson and Kohlberg's male-centered stages of moral
development
Lawrence Kohlberg - ✔✔Theory of moral development:
Pre-conventional (birth-9):
1. Obedience and punishment
2. Individualism, instrumentalism, exchange
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