NYSTCE: Educating All Students (EAS) Exam Questions And
Answers
Behaviorism - correct Answers ✔✔ -people's actions are driven by a need to gain rewards or avoid
punishments.
Reinforcement - correct Answers ✔✔ -meant to increase a good behavior; a reward
Punishment - correct Answers ✔✔ -meant to decrease bad behavior
Positive reinforcement - correct Answers ✔✔ -involves giving someone something that he or she wants
Negative reinforcement - correct Answers ✔✔ -taking away something that someone does not want
Positive punishment - correct Answers ✔✔ -involves giving someone something that he or she does not
want
Negative punishment - correct Answers ✔✔ -involves taking away something that someone does want
Extinction - correct Answers ✔✔ -decreases the chances of a response to something by withdrawing
reinforcement of the behavior; like a reset button
Constructivism - correct Answers ✔✔ -a philosophy of education that says that people construct
knowledge through their experiences and interactions with the world
Social learning - correct Answers ✔✔ -learning through interactions with other people
Vyogtsky's Zone of Proximal Development - correct Answers ✔✔ -people learn best from other people
who are just a little ahead of them
Project-based learning (PBL) - correct Answers ✔✔ -focuses on giving an open-ended question and
complex problem to a group of students and having them figure out the best solution to the problem
4 Steps to PBL - correct Answers ✔✔ -1. Learners are presented with a problem; 2. group develop
theories to explain the problem; 3. Learners work independently to come up with solutions; 4. Regroup
to compare solutions and develop a plan.
Critical Theory - correct Answers ✔✔ -a philosophy that involves being critical of the prevailing view of
society
, Critical theory in education - correct Answers ✔✔ -is about questioning how our educational system can
best offer education to all people
Problems with access to technology - correct Answers ✔✔ -poorer schools can have a harder time
getting technology in the hands of their students; poor students have lower technological fluency than
middle- and upper-class students.
Humanism - correct Answers ✔✔ -a branch of psychology related to the theories Abraham Maslow and
Carl Rogers, has at its core the idea that people want to grow and fulfill their ultimate potential.
Self-Directed Learning - correct Answers ✔✔ -involves students learning what they want and need to
learn, not what the teacher arbitrarily decides is important.
Extrinsic motivators - correct Answers ✔✔ -things outside of a person that motivate them to do
something.
Self-evaluation - correct Answers ✔✔ -thoughtful assessment of one's own work
lifelong learners - correct Answers ✔✔ -people who continue to learn even after they leave school
Learning - correct Answers ✔✔ -involves storing and accessing information in memory
information processing theory of learning - correct Answers ✔✔ -information from the world around us
moves from sensory storage to working memory to long-term memory
working memory - correct Answers ✔✔ -storage of memories that occurred only a few seconds in the
past
long-term memory - correct Answers ✔✔ -memories that are stored for a person to access later
cognitive load - correct Answers ✔✔ -having too much information in working memory and not being
able to remember anything
chunking - correct Answers ✔✔ -grouping information together to help remember it
Automaticity - correct Answers ✔✔ -process of making a task automatic
Pragmatism - correct Answers ✔✔ -an educational philosophy that says that education should be about
life and growth; teachers should be teaching students things that are practical for life and encourage
them to grow into better people
practical learning - correct Answers ✔✔ -education should apply to the real world
experiential learning - correct Answers ✔✔ -education should come through experience
Progressivism - correct Answers ✔✔ -the idea that education does from the experience of the child
whole child - correct Answers ✔✔ -teaching students to be good citizens and not just good learners
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