TExES Pedagogy and Professional
Responsibilities (PPR) Questions and
Answers Latest 2023
Accommodation ✔✔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 ✔✔Changing of existing knowledge structures (schemas) to fit new conditions.
Either through: assimilation or accommodation
Anorexia Nervosa ✔✔An eating disorder characterized by very limited food intake
Assimilation ✔✔According to Piaget, the process by which new ideas and experiences are
absorbed and incorporated into existing mental structures and behaviors
Bulimia ✔✔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 ✔✔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 ✔✔the realization that a change in the appearance of an object does not necessarily
change the characteristics of the object.
Constructivist Theories ✔✔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 ✔✔In Piaget's theory, the inability of the preoperational child to take another's point
of view.
equilibration ✔✔the constant innate search for a balance between what we already know and a
new activity, skill, or social experience
Imaginary Audience ✔✔Adolescents' belief that they are the focus of everyone else's attention
and concern.
, maturation ✔✔internally determined to change
metacognitive ability ✔✔the ability to think about one's own cognitive thinking processes and to
use this process to facilitate learning.
organization ✔✔continual process of arranging and connecting information, objects, and events
within meaningful mental systems (schemata)
personal fable ✔✔An adolescents belief that they are special in the sense of being unique,
invulnerable, and omnipotent, so few can understand them
Prepubescence ✔✔the period of life immediately before puberty, often marked by accelerated
physical growth
Puberty ✔✔the stage of adolescence in which an individual becomes physiologically capable of
sexual reproduction
Seriation ✔✔ability to arrange objects in an orderly fashion (in a series) using a quantitive
dimension (size, for example)
Responsibilities (PPR) Questions and
Answers Latest 2023
Accommodation ✔✔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 ✔✔Changing of existing knowledge structures (schemas) to fit new conditions.
Either through: assimilation or accommodation
Anorexia Nervosa ✔✔An eating disorder characterized by very limited food intake
Assimilation ✔✔According to Piaget, the process by which new ideas and experiences are
absorbed and incorporated into existing mental structures and behaviors
Bulimia ✔✔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 ✔✔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 ✔✔the realization that a change in the appearance of an object does not necessarily
change the characteristics of the object.
Constructivist Theories ✔✔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 ✔✔In Piaget's theory, the inability of the preoperational child to take another's point
of view.
equilibration ✔✔the constant innate search for a balance between what we already know and a
new activity, skill, or social experience
Imaginary Audience ✔✔Adolescents' belief that they are the focus of everyone else's attention
and concern.
, maturation ✔✔internally determined to change
metacognitive ability ✔✔the ability to think about one's own cognitive thinking processes and to
use this process to facilitate learning.
organization ✔✔continual process of arranging and connecting information, objects, and events
within meaningful mental systems (schemata)
personal fable ✔✔An adolescents belief that they are special in the sense of being unique,
invulnerable, and omnipotent, so few can understand them
Prepubescence ✔✔the period of life immediately before puberty, often marked by accelerated
physical growth
Puberty ✔✔the stage of adolescence in which an individual becomes physiologically capable of
sexual reproduction
Seriation ✔✔ability to arrange objects in an orderly fashion (in a series) using a quantitive
dimension (size, for example)
