TExES Pedagogy and Professional Responsibilities
(PPR) Exam Study Guide Solutions
Accommodation - ANSWER✔✔-One of the processes that helps create
equilibrium. According to Piaget, the process by which existing mental
structures (schemas) and behaviors are modified to adapt to new
experiences
Adaptation - ANSWER✔✔-Changing of existing knowledge structures
(schemas) to fit new conditions. Either through: assimilation or
accommodation
Anorexia Nervosa - ANSWER✔✔-An eating disorder characterized by very
limited food intake
Assimilation - ANSWER✔✔-According to Piaget, the process by which
new ideas and experiences are absorbed and incorporated into existing
mental structures and behaviors
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,Bulimia - ANSWER✔✔-An eating disorder characterized by
overeating/binge eating (and a fear of not being able to stop eating)
followed by purging by self-induced vomiting or laxatives.
Centration - ANSWER✔✔-A young child's tendency to focus only on his or
her own perspective of a specific object and a failure to understand that
others may see things differently.
Conservation - ANSWER✔✔-the realization that a change in the
appearance of an object does not necessarily change the characteristics of
the object.
Constructivist Theories - ANSWER✔✔-belief that children are not passive
in the learning process; each learner constantly and actively seeks
information and meshes old knowledge with new to make it meaningful in
building or constructing his or her knowledge.
egocentrism - ANSWER✔✔-In Piaget's theory, the inability of the
preoperational child to take another's point of view.
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,equilibration - ANSWER✔✔-the constant innate search for a balance
between what we already know and a new activity, skill, or social
experience
Imaginary Audience - ANSWER✔✔-Adolescents' belief that they are the
focus of everyone else's attention and concern.
maturation - ANSWER✔✔-internally determined to change
metacognitive ability - ANSWER✔✔-the ability to think about one's own
cognitive thinking processes and to use this process to facilitate learning.
organization - ANSWER✔✔-continual process of arranging and connecting
information, objects, and events within meaningful mental systems
(schemata)
personal fable - ANSWER✔✔-An adolescents belief that they are special in
the sense of being unique, invulnerable, and omnipotent, so few can
understand them
Prepubescence - ANSWER✔✔-the period of life immediately before
puberty, often marked by accelerated physical growth
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, Puberty - ANSWER✔✔-the stage of adolescence in which an individual
becomes physiologically capable of sexual reproduction
Seriation - ANSWER✔✔-ability to arrange objects in an orderly fashion (in
a series) using a quantitive dimension (size, for example)
Stages of Cognitive Development - ANSWER✔✔-(Piaget) 1. sensorimotor
2. preoperational 3. concrete operational 4. formal operational
Acculturation - ANSWER✔✔-successful application of new knowledge and
use of new norms from another culture while retaining one's own native
culture and language
basic interpersonal communication skills (BCIS) - ANSWER✔✔-as a
language learner, being able to use conversational, everyday language (can
take up to two years)
biases - ANSWER✔✔-unfair preferences or prejudices toward particular
groups of people
Cognitive academic language proficiency (CALP) - ANSWER✔✔-as a
language learner, being able to use a language for abstract, academic
purposes (5-7 years)
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(PPR) Exam Study Guide Solutions
Accommodation - ANSWER✔✔-One of the processes that helps create
equilibrium. According to Piaget, the process by which existing mental
structures (schemas) and behaviors are modified to adapt to new
experiences
Adaptation - ANSWER✔✔-Changing of existing knowledge structures
(schemas) to fit new conditions. Either through: assimilation or
accommodation
Anorexia Nervosa - ANSWER✔✔-An eating disorder characterized by very
limited food intake
Assimilation - ANSWER✔✔-According to Piaget, the process by which
new ideas and experiences are absorbed and incorporated into existing
mental structures and behaviors
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,Bulimia - ANSWER✔✔-An eating disorder characterized by
overeating/binge eating (and a fear of not being able to stop eating)
followed by purging by self-induced vomiting or laxatives.
Centration - ANSWER✔✔-A young child's tendency to focus only on his or
her own perspective of a specific object and a failure to understand that
others may see things differently.
Conservation - ANSWER✔✔-the realization that a change in the
appearance of an object does not necessarily change the characteristics of
the object.
Constructivist Theories - ANSWER✔✔-belief that children are not passive
in the learning process; each learner constantly and actively seeks
information and meshes old knowledge with new to make it meaningful in
building or constructing his or her knowledge.
egocentrism - ANSWER✔✔-In Piaget's theory, the inability of the
preoperational child to take another's point of view.
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,equilibration - ANSWER✔✔-the constant innate search for a balance
between what we already know and a new activity, skill, or social
experience
Imaginary Audience - ANSWER✔✔-Adolescents' belief that they are the
focus of everyone else's attention and concern.
maturation - ANSWER✔✔-internally determined to change
metacognitive ability - ANSWER✔✔-the ability to think about one's own
cognitive thinking processes and to use this process to facilitate learning.
organization - ANSWER✔✔-continual process of arranging and connecting
information, objects, and events within meaningful mental systems
(schemata)
personal fable - ANSWER✔✔-An adolescents belief that they are special in
the sense of being unique, invulnerable, and omnipotent, so few can
understand them
Prepubescence - ANSWER✔✔-the period of life immediately before
puberty, often marked by accelerated physical growth
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, Puberty - ANSWER✔✔-the stage of adolescence in which an individual
becomes physiologically capable of sexual reproduction
Seriation - ANSWER✔✔-ability to arrange objects in an orderly fashion (in
a series) using a quantitive dimension (size, for example)
Stages of Cognitive Development - ANSWER✔✔-(Piaget) 1. sensorimotor
2. preoperational 3. concrete operational 4. formal operational
Acculturation - ANSWER✔✔-successful application of new knowledge and
use of new norms from another culture while retaining one's own native
culture and language
basic interpersonal communication skills (BCIS) - ANSWER✔✔-as a
language learner, being able to use conversational, everyday language (can
take up to two years)
biases - ANSWER✔✔-unfair preferences or prejudices toward particular
groups of people
Cognitive academic language proficiency (CALP) - ANSWER✔✔-as a
language learner, being able to use a language for abstract, academic
purposes (5-7 years)
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