Educational Theorist (Jerome Bruner) Assessment

What are Bruner’s three modes of representation?

• Enactive, Iconic, and Symbolic

• Stimulus, Response, and Symbolic

• Logical, Scientific, and Iconic

• Enactitve, Iconic, and Logical

How can the three modes of representation be BEST described?

• A representation of how the brain works.

• The ways to organize specific information.

• The ways in which information or knowledge is stored and encoded in memory.

• A way to learn new information.

Which of Bruner’s theories contains these principles: 1. Predisposition towards learning, 2. The ways in which a body of knowledge can be structured so that it can be most readily grasped by the learner, 3. The most effective sequences in which to present material, and 4. The nature and pacing of rewards and punishments.

• Bruner’s Theory of Cognitive Development

• Bruner’s Learning Theory in Education

• Bruner’s Child Development Theory

• Bruner’s Theory on Constructivism

Bruner believed that learning is an _____ process in which learners construct new ideas or concepts based upon their current/past knowledge.

• Inactive

• Active

• Continual

• Long

True or False: Jerome Bruner was blind the first 2 years of his life.

• True

• False

Bruner believed that any subject can be taught to any child at any stage of _________, if it is presented in the proper manner.

• Memory

• Development

• Observation

• Life

Where was Jerome Bruner born?

• New York, New York

• Atlanta, Georgia

• Madison, Illinois

• Boston, Massachusetts

In Bruner’s Theory of Cognitive Development, what two types of “thoughts” are there?

• Paradigmatic and Active

• Narrative and Dysfunctional

• Good and Bad

• Narrative and Paradigmatic

Where did Bruner attend college?

• Brown University and Cornell University

• Harvard University and Duke University

• Yale University and Duke University

• Columbia University and Princeton University

Bruner was a leader of the ______ Revolution.

• Learning

• Psychological

• Behaviorism

• Cognitive