Praxis – PLT Exam Questions and
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formal operational stage - ✔✔jean piaget's fourth and final stage of cognitive
development, reached around age 12 and characterized by teenagers' ability to reason at
an abstract, scientific level
Bandura - ✔✔-Social Learning Theory
-Bobo Doll
-Children learn through observing others
Bruner - ✔✔-constructivist
-categorization
-spiral curriculum
-importance of structure in learning
-social setting important
Dewey - ✔✔-Hands-on learning
-progressive education
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,-pragmatism
-child-centered education
-interdisciplinary
Piaget - ✔✔-Schemas
-Cognitive development theory
-children go through stages
-children are not less intelligent, they just think differently
schema - ✔✔building block of intelligent behavior
Piaget- theory of cognitive development - ✔✔Sensorimotor stage ( birth -24 months)
Preoperational stage (2-7) play activities help the child to understand life events and
relationships.
Concrete operational stage (7-11) concrete objects, logical thinking, incorporates
another's perspective.
Formal operational stage - (11 and older) abstract thinking.
Vygotsky - ✔✔-Zone of proximal development
-scaffolding
-emphasis on social aspect of learning
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, -inner speech
-theory of cognitive development
Kohlberg - ✔✔grouped a child's morality development into stages..
Stage 1: scared of punishment
Stage 2: interpersonal relationships
Stage 3: live up to the expectations of others.
Bloom's Taxonomy: - ✔✔1) cognitive: mental skills (knowledge)
2) affctive: growth in feelings or emotional areas (attitude)
3) psychomotor: manual or physical skills (skills)
Metacognition - ✔✔Knowledge about one's own learning or about how to learn
(thinking about thinking).
Task monitoring and self-monitoring activity.
transfer - ✔✔learning in one context transferred over to another context
Self-efficacy - ✔✔How competent we feel on a task; leads us to set challenging goals
and to persist
self-regulation - ✔✔the deliberate planning, monitoring, and evaluating of one's
academic work
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formal operational stage - ✔✔jean piaget's fourth and final stage of cognitive
development, reached around age 12 and characterized by teenagers' ability to reason at
an abstract, scientific level
Bandura - ✔✔-Social Learning Theory
-Bobo Doll
-Children learn through observing others
Bruner - ✔✔-constructivist
-categorization
-spiral curriculum
-importance of structure in learning
-social setting important
Dewey - ✔✔-Hands-on learning
-progressive education
Emily Charlene © All Rights Reserved 2025. 1
,-pragmatism
-child-centered education
-interdisciplinary
Piaget - ✔✔-Schemas
-Cognitive development theory
-children go through stages
-children are not less intelligent, they just think differently
schema - ✔✔building block of intelligent behavior
Piaget- theory of cognitive development - ✔✔Sensorimotor stage ( birth -24 months)
Preoperational stage (2-7) play activities help the child to understand life events and
relationships.
Concrete operational stage (7-11) concrete objects, logical thinking, incorporates
another's perspective.
Formal operational stage - (11 and older) abstract thinking.
Vygotsky - ✔✔-Zone of proximal development
-scaffolding
-emphasis on social aspect of learning
Emily Charlene © All Rights Reserved 2025. 2
, -inner speech
-theory of cognitive development
Kohlberg - ✔✔grouped a child's morality development into stages..
Stage 1: scared of punishment
Stage 2: interpersonal relationships
Stage 3: live up to the expectations of others.
Bloom's Taxonomy: - ✔✔1) cognitive: mental skills (knowledge)
2) affctive: growth in feelings or emotional areas (attitude)
3) psychomotor: manual or physical skills (skills)
Metacognition - ✔✔Knowledge about one's own learning or about how to learn
(thinking about thinking).
Task monitoring and self-monitoring activity.
transfer - ✔✔learning in one context transferred over to another context
Self-efficacy - ✔✔How competent we feel on a task; leads us to set challenging goals
and to persist
self-regulation - ✔✔the deliberate planning, monitoring, and evaluating of one's
academic work
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