PLT Praxis (Students as Learners) Exam
Questions and Answers
Albert Bandura - Answers -Social Learning Theory (Observational Learning Theory)
Albert Bandura - Answers -learn by observing others (modeling)
Jerome Bruner - Answers -Discovery Language (Constructivism)
Jerome Bruner - Answers -construction of new ideas based on prior knowledge
(reflection); learning is done by themselves or in groups
John Dewey - Answers -Learning through Experience
John Dewey - Answers -project-based learning, cooperative learning, arts integration
activities (student as problem solvers)
Erik Erikson - Answers -Eight Stages of Human Development
Erik Erikson - Answers -Infancy, toddler, early childhood, elementary/middle school,
adolescence, young adulthood, middle adulthood, and late adulthood
Carol Gilligan - Answers -Stage of the Ethic of Care
Carol Gilligan - Answers -process of women's development
Lawrence Kohlberg - Answers -Theory of Moral Development
Lawrence Kohlberg - Answers -pre-conventional, conventional, and post-conventional
(social orientation cats - 6)
Abraham Maslow - Answers -Hierarchy of Needs
Abraham Maslow - Answers -Physiological, Safety, Love and belongingness, esteem,
and Self-Actualization
Maria Montessori - Answers -Follow the child
Maria Montessori - Answers -introduction of concept, developing an understanding of
concept through activity, knowing concept by passing, teaching, expressing concept
with ease
, Jean Piaget - Answers -Stages of Conitive Development
Jean Piaget - Answers -Sensorimotor (senses/motor skills), Preopertational (beleive-
symbols for representation), Concrete (reason logically), Formal (reason in
hypotheticals and abstractly)
B. F. Skinner - Answers -Operant Conditioning
B.F. Skinner - Answers -stimuli-response-reward
Lev Vygotsky - Answers -Zone of Proximal Development
Lev Vygotsky - Answers -social learning in which teacher teaches a new concept that
child can't learn on his/her own
constructivism - Answers -construct understanding through reflection of experience
discovery learning - Answers -discovering information individually or in a group
extrinsic motivation - Answers -reward-type motivations for learning
intrinsic motivation - Answers -reward within (pride, achievement)
learned helplessness - Answers -passive learning/dependent on others
metacognition - Answers -can explain his/her own learning processes and talk about
strategies used to gain knowledge
readiness to learn - Answers -basic needs are met so student can developmentally start
learning
scaffolding - Answers -teacher starting an activity and slowly removing cues and help
slowly
schema - Answers -association of new information with old information
transfer - Answers -applying an old lesson to a new lesson
zone of proximal development - Answers -students learn best in social context
Howard Gardner - Answers -Multiple Intelligences (8)
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