WGU C910 Cognitive competency Knowledge test Exam
Toolkit Questions and Verified solution 2025/2026
Sociocultural theory
That learning is viewed as an active and constructive task and what is learned is viewed
as subjective. Social and cultural backgrounds of students have a huge and undeniable
effect on their learning
Active teaching
Teaching characterized by high levels of teaching explanation, demonstration, and
interaction with students
Proactive teaching
Showing students how to do something before expecting them to do it themselves.
Success.
Reactive teaching
First asking students to do something and then showing them how only when they
struggle (sets up for failure).
Gradual release of responsibility model
Instructional cycle during which students learn new skills and knowledge and gradually
assume increased responsibility for learning.
Direct explanation
Approach to teaching strategies that employs direct instruction, and a gradual release of
responsibility.
Scaffolding
Temporary support that is tailored to a learner's needs and abilities and aimed at helping
the learner master the next task in a given learning process
Zone of proximal development
,Emphasizes the social nature of learning and the fact that learning is very much a social
phenomenon
Basal reader
A kind of book that is used to teach reading. It is based on an approach in which words
are used as a whole. The words are used over and over in each succeeding lesson.
New words are added regularly.
Constructivism
A philosophy of learning based on the premise that people construct their own
understanding of the world they live in through reflection on experiences
Cognitivism
The psychology of learning which emphasizes human cognition or intelligence as a
special endowment enabling man to form hypotheses and develop intellectually
Vgotsky
Who believed that parents, caregivers, peers, and the culture at large were responsible
for developing higher-order functions
Vgotsky vs. Piaget
Vygotsky placed a greater emphasis on how social factors influence development.
While piaget's theory stressed how a child's interactions and explorations influenced
development, vygotsky stressed the essential role that social interactions play in
cognitive development
Phonological awareness
Ability to hear and manipulate larger units of sound, such as onsets and rimes and
syllables
Like using the phone...spoken language (not seeing letters or words b/c you are on the
phone)
Semantics
, Is made up of morphemes, the smallest units of meaning that may be combined with
each other to make up words
Syntactic
Consists of the rules that enable us to combine morphemes into sentences
Pragmatics
Which deals with rules of language use
Stage 0 foundation of literacy
Introduce to the power of print -read
Stage 1-beginning literacy
This stage is when students move from learning about reading and writing to actually
doing it
Stage 2-consolidation / fluency
This stage is when students must consolidate what they learned in stage 1 and be able
to apply their skills with less effort.
Stage 3: literacy for growth
Stages 0, 1 and 2 build students' competence and confidence as readers and writers. In
stage 3 they extend and apply their literacy skills. They use reading and writing as a
means of acquiring new information, conducting research, reflecting on issues and
communicating about deeper thoughts
Chomsky
Language acquisition device
Piaget
Which theorist is symbolic thought a precondition for language acquisition
Toolkit Questions and Verified solution 2025/2026
Sociocultural theory
That learning is viewed as an active and constructive task and what is learned is viewed
as subjective. Social and cultural backgrounds of students have a huge and undeniable
effect on their learning
Active teaching
Teaching characterized by high levels of teaching explanation, demonstration, and
interaction with students
Proactive teaching
Showing students how to do something before expecting them to do it themselves.
Success.
Reactive teaching
First asking students to do something and then showing them how only when they
struggle (sets up for failure).
Gradual release of responsibility model
Instructional cycle during which students learn new skills and knowledge and gradually
assume increased responsibility for learning.
Direct explanation
Approach to teaching strategies that employs direct instruction, and a gradual release of
responsibility.
Scaffolding
Temporary support that is tailored to a learner's needs and abilities and aimed at helping
the learner master the next task in a given learning process
Zone of proximal development
,Emphasizes the social nature of learning and the fact that learning is very much a social
phenomenon
Basal reader
A kind of book that is used to teach reading. It is based on an approach in which words
are used as a whole. The words are used over and over in each succeeding lesson.
New words are added regularly.
Constructivism
A philosophy of learning based on the premise that people construct their own
understanding of the world they live in through reflection on experiences
Cognitivism
The psychology of learning which emphasizes human cognition or intelligence as a
special endowment enabling man to form hypotheses and develop intellectually
Vgotsky
Who believed that parents, caregivers, peers, and the culture at large were responsible
for developing higher-order functions
Vgotsky vs. Piaget
Vygotsky placed a greater emphasis on how social factors influence development.
While piaget's theory stressed how a child's interactions and explorations influenced
development, vygotsky stressed the essential role that social interactions play in
cognitive development
Phonological awareness
Ability to hear and manipulate larger units of sound, such as onsets and rimes and
syllables
Like using the phone...spoken language (not seeing letters or words b/c you are on the
phone)
Semantics
, Is made up of morphemes, the smallest units of meaning that may be combined with
each other to make up words
Syntactic
Consists of the rules that enable us to combine morphemes into sentences
Pragmatics
Which deals with rules of language use
Stage 0 foundation of literacy
Introduce to the power of print -read
Stage 1-beginning literacy
This stage is when students move from learning about reading and writing to actually
doing it
Stage 2-consolidation / fluency
This stage is when students must consolidate what they learned in stage 1 and be able
to apply their skills with less effort.
Stage 3: literacy for growth
Stages 0, 1 and 2 build students' competence and confidence as readers and writers. In
stage 3 they extend and apply their literacy skills. They use reading and writing as a
means of acquiring new information, conducting research, reflecting on issues and
communicating about deeper thoughts
Chomsky
Language acquisition device
Piaget
Which theorist is symbolic thought a precondition for language acquisition
