Student Development

Question 1

Major differences between Jerome Bruner & Jean Piaget’s theories of cognitive development.

Answer 1

Learning automatic and set vs. environment and modalities support learning from within.

Question 2

Learning process allows student to experience an environment first-hand, thereby, giving the student reliable, trust-worthy knowledge. Student required to act upon environment to both acquire and test new knowledge.

Answer 2

Constructivism

Question 3

The what, how, & why people know what they know; self-examination, self-evaluation.

Answer 3

Metacognition

Question 4

Organized knowledge as an elaborate network of abstract mental structures that represent one’s understanding of the world.

Answer 4

Schemata

Question 5

The dependency of human conduct, learning, or performance on prior experience

Answer 5

Transfer

Question 6

Modeling a task, giving advice, providing coaching that is gradually removed as students develop autonomous learning strategies, thus promoting their own cognitive, affective, and psychomotor learning skills & knowledge.

Answer 6

Scaffolding

Question 7

Classification of the different objectives by dividing them into three domains: cognitive, affective, and psychomotor with learning at higher levels dependent on skills attained at lower levels.

Answer 7

Bloom’s Taxonomy

Question 8

Difference between what a learner can do without help and what he or she can do with help.

Answer 8

Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)

Question 9

Internal motivation; One sees the value in doing.

Answer 9

Intrinsic Motivation

Question 10

External Motivation; One’s desire to please.

Answer 10

Extrinsic Motivation