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WorksheetsVygotsky
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 1hrs 3mins
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1.
In what field of profession was Vygotsky's first earned degree?
a)
Psychology
b)
Education
c)
Sociology
d)
Law
2.
Which option is key while incorporating Vygotsky's theories in your classroom?
a)
Scaffolding
b)
Hands-on activities
c)
Learning Styles
d)
Discovery Learning
3.
The zone of proximal development is:
a)
The most a child can learn in a given day
b)
The gap between what the child can do on their own and what they cannot do without assistance
c)
What the child already knows
d)
The intelligence level the child is projected to be at given point
4.
Which of the following is a theory of Vygotsky?
a)
Cognitive Learning Theory
b)
Guided Discovery
c)
The More Knowledgeable Other
d)
Multiple Intelligences
5.
What is the self-regulating form of language?
a)
Silent inner speech
b)
Social speech
c)
Private speech
d)
None of the above
6.
Vygotsky believed that language and thought are interconnected from birth.
a)
True
b)
False
7.
Vygosky’s theory emphasized which contexts of learning and that knowledge is mutually built and constructed?
a)
developmental
b)
social
c)
theoretical
d)
conditioned
8.
According to Vygotsky, why is language important in development?
a)
Language is the main means by which adults transmit info to children.
b)
Language is a powerful tool of intellectual adaptation.
c)
Language is an accelerator to thinking and understanding.
d)
All of the above.
9.
According to Vygotsky, which of the following is not true?
a)
Children construct knowledge.
b)
Cognitive development occurs in distinct stages.
c)
Development cannot be separated from its social context.
d)
Language plays a central role in mental development.
10.
Mr. Jones gave his first-grade students some simple sorting and counting problems to work on. He noticed that the children, working independently, readily solved the problems, however, there was some self-talk, or “private speech.” According to Vygotsky, what is likely to happen to children’s self-talk if Mr. Jones gives the children a more challenging task to solve?
a)
The amount of private speech should decrease because the children have to concentrate harder.
b)
The amount of private speech should remain the same because private speech is a natural part of development.
c)
The amount of private speech should increase because it facilitates problem solving through self-communication.
d)
The self-talk will stop.
11.
What two books are primary sources of Lev Vygotsky's work?
a)
Thought and Society, and Mind and Language
b)
Zone of Proximal Development, Social Development
c)
Mind in Society, Thought and Language
d)
Thought and Mediation, Language and Internalization
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