Teacher Education Enrichment Course Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) Review Test

A mother gives her son his favorite snack every time the boy cleans up his room. Afterwards, the boy cleans his room everyday in anticipation of the snack. Which theory explains this?

• operant conditioning

• social learning theory

• associative learning

• Pavlovian conditioning

The concepts of trust vs. maturity, autonomy vs. self-doubt, and initiative vs. guilt are most closely related with the works of

• Erikson

• Piaget

• Freud

• Jung

The Early Childhood Care and Development Act provides for the promotion of the rights of children for survival and development. Which of the following statements is not among its objectives?

• Enhance the role of parents as the primary caregivers and educators of their children from birth onward.

• Facilitate a smooth transition from care and education provided at home to community or school-based setting and primary schools.

• Assist the LGUs in their endeavor to prepare the child for adulthood.

• Enhance the physical, social, emotional, cognitive, psychological, spiritual, and language development of young children.

Which is an underlying assumption of the social cognitive theory?

• People are social by nature.

• People learn by observing others.

• People learn by trial-and-error.

• People learn by association.

Piagetian tasks state that thinking becomes more logical and abstract as children reach the formal operations stage. What is an educational implication of this finding?

• Expect hypothetical reasoning from learners between 12 to 15 years of age.

• Engage children in analogical reasoning as early as preschool to train them for HOTS.

• Learners who are not capable of logical reasoning from ages 8 to 11 lag behind in their cognitive development.

• Let children be children.

You are convinced that whenever a student performs a desired behavior, provide reinforcement and soon the student learns to perform the behavior on her own. On which principle is your conviction based?

• cognitivism

• behaviorism

• constructivism

• environmentalism

A child was punished for cheating in an exam. For sure the child won't cheat again in a short period, but this does not guarantee that the child won't cheat ever again. Based on Thorndike's theory on punishment and learning, this shows that _____.

• punishment strengthens a response

• punishment doesn't remove a response

• punishment removes response

• punishment weakens a response

Teacher B is a teacher of English as a Second Language. She uses vocabulary cards, fill-in-the-blank sentences, dictation and writing exercises in teaching a lesson about grocery shopping. Based on this information, which of the following is a valid conclusion?

• The teacher is reinforcing learning by giving the same information in, a variety of methods.

• The teacher is applying Bloom's hierarchy of cognitive learning.

• The teacher wants to do less talk.

• The teacher is emphasizing listening and speaking skills.

Watson applied classical conditioning in his experiments and the results showed that behavior is learned through stimulus-response associations, specifically the development of emotional responses to certain stimuli. This helps is in _____.

• interpreting reflexes as emotions

• understanding fears, phobias, and love

• connecting observable behavior to stimulus

• understanding the role of overt behavior

Which violates this brain-based principle of teaching-learning: 'Each child's brain is unique and vastly different from one another.'

• giving ample opportunity for a pupil to explore even if the class creates 'noise'

• making a left-handed pupil write with his right hand as it is better this way

• allowing open dialogue among students

• employing MI teaching approaches