JACK EDPSY 14 FINAL

According to Vygotsky, teachers should teach to a student's zone of proximal development. This means

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  grouping students in the same ability groups

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  teaching to the average students in your class os that all students can participate

• •   scaffolding the material to link directly to the upper limits for all students

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  using centers in the classroom

Piaget believed all children are born with an innate tendency to interact with and make sense of their environment by means of...

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  moral dilemmas

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  generatively

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  schemas or schemes 

• identity alone

When children incorporate new information into existing schemas, we call this...

Children at a pre-conventional level of moral reasoning concentrate on

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  how to get rewards and avoid being punished

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  understanding the meaning of rules for a group

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  respecting laws of society

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  how to adapt rules to fit the condition of their situations

The role of private speech, in Vygotsky's view, is to

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  self-regulate their own learning

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  satisfy the egocentric needs of preoperational children

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  stimulate the development of language from telegraphic speech to full sentences

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  call attention to oneself during play

According to Piaget, "knowledge comes from action." Which of the following statements best explains PIaget's philosophy?

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  Piaget assumes cognitive development is a smooth progression from less knowledge to more knowledge

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  Children are miniature adults. This means knowledge is quantitative rather than qualitative

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  Development depends in large part on an individual's manipulation of and interactions with the environment

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  Inactivity is an indicator of intelligence, especially during childhood

"Autonomous morality", when a child starts to judge intentions, no matter what the outcome is occurs

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  In infants when they begin to fixate on an object

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  Only in adults

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  around the ages of 10-12

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  When a child goes to preschool and starts to play with peers

Which of the following statements is true about child development?

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  Both nature and nurture effect development

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  Development that is obtained from your parents (genes) is called nurture

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  Children are more influenced by nature than nurture

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  Siblings will always develop the same

Teacher efficacy is...

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  Believing teachers should only have high achieving students in their classes

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  Believing their efforts when teaching make a difference in a student's success regardless of the student's individual circumstances

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  Believing students just need to believe in themselves and no effort is needed to succeed

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  Believing all students are inherently "bad" and no matter what the teacher does, success will not be achieved

Which of the following is NOT a domain that Moral Development encompasses?

• physical

• behavioral

• emotional

• cognitive