PPR Review Questions and Answers
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Transitions ✔✔There are 2 types of transitions that a teacher must plan for:
(a) moving children from one type of activity to another
(b)changing from one subject to another.
Schema ✔✔knowledge structure or mental organization of a concept. (PIAGET)
Private Speech ✔✔"self talk" or oral directions where VYGOTSKY says people both self-guide
and monitor their thinking and problem solving by talking out loud to themselves.
Developmentally Appropriate ✔✔teachers should design instruction that matches the students
cognitive,physical,social and emotional stages.
Scaffolding ✔✔children can often do many tasks with assistance from adults or knowledgeable
peers.
*** AS CHILDREN BECOME COMPETENT, SUPPORT IS GRADUALLY REDUCED***
,Readiness ✔✔a teacher must consider the students current ability to complete a task.
Psychomotor Domain ✔✔children learn physical skills in a particular order.
1. Perception: pays attention to
2. Set: learners become prepared mentally
3. Guided Response: learner tries with coaching
4. Mechanism: learner practices to improve
5. Complex or overt responses: learner becomes proficient
6. Adaptation: learner transfers current skill to the new one.
7. Origination: learner can create original skills based upon a new one.
Formal operational stage ✔✔children ages 11-adult obtain the ability to think abstractly.
(PIAGET)
Pr-conventional moral reasoning ✔✔children decide if something is wrong by the consequences
(reward or punishment) that are received following a behavior. ( KOHLBERG)
, Conventional Moral Reasoning ✔✔children decide on a particular action to gain approval.
(KOHLBERG)
Pre-Moral Stage ✔✔very young children are unaware of right,wrong and rules. (PIAGET)
Moral absolute stage ✔✔Piaget believed that young children entering school have no flexibility
with rules despite any extenuating circumstances; thus teachers must establish broad general
rules.
Maturation ✔✔internally determined changes in a person.
Development ✔✔according to educational theorist,humans change
cognitively,physically,socially and emotionally over the course of their lives in systematic ways.
Egocentrism ✔✔young children do not have the ability to see their perspective of others.
Cognitive Development ✔✔changes in mental operations of thinking and reasoning.
children go through 4 stages of change in mental processes.
Already Passed
Transitions ✔✔There are 2 types of transitions that a teacher must plan for:
(a) moving children from one type of activity to another
(b)changing from one subject to another.
Schema ✔✔knowledge structure or mental organization of a concept. (PIAGET)
Private Speech ✔✔"self talk" or oral directions where VYGOTSKY says people both self-guide
and monitor their thinking and problem solving by talking out loud to themselves.
Developmentally Appropriate ✔✔teachers should design instruction that matches the students
cognitive,physical,social and emotional stages.
Scaffolding ✔✔children can often do many tasks with assistance from adults or knowledgeable
peers.
*** AS CHILDREN BECOME COMPETENT, SUPPORT IS GRADUALLY REDUCED***
,Readiness ✔✔a teacher must consider the students current ability to complete a task.
Psychomotor Domain ✔✔children learn physical skills in a particular order.
1. Perception: pays attention to
2. Set: learners become prepared mentally
3. Guided Response: learner tries with coaching
4. Mechanism: learner practices to improve
5. Complex or overt responses: learner becomes proficient
6. Adaptation: learner transfers current skill to the new one.
7. Origination: learner can create original skills based upon a new one.
Formal operational stage ✔✔children ages 11-adult obtain the ability to think abstractly.
(PIAGET)
Pr-conventional moral reasoning ✔✔children decide if something is wrong by the consequences
(reward or punishment) that are received following a behavior. ( KOHLBERG)
, Conventional Moral Reasoning ✔✔children decide on a particular action to gain approval.
(KOHLBERG)
Pre-Moral Stage ✔✔very young children are unaware of right,wrong and rules. (PIAGET)
Moral absolute stage ✔✔Piaget believed that young children entering school have no flexibility
with rules despite any extenuating circumstances; thus teachers must establish broad general
rules.
Maturation ✔✔internally determined changes in a person.
Development ✔✔according to educational theorist,humans change
cognitively,physically,socially and emotionally over the course of their lives in systematic ways.
Egocentrism ✔✔young children do not have the ability to see their perspective of others.
Cognitive Development ✔✔changes in mental operations of thinking and reasoning.
children go through 4 stages of change in mental processes.
