Test Questions on the Theory of Constructivism

1. He was born blind and was one of the first proponents of constructivism.
- Jerome Bruner
2. What is Bruner’s theory?
- Constructivist Theory
3. Bruner’s theory is themed as an active process in which learners construct new ideas or
concepts that is based upon their?
- Current/past knowledge
4. Bruner based his assumptions that we learn best when we go from concrete to abstract in
how many stages of representation of knowledge?
- 3 stages
5. It is learning through movement or action.
- Enactive representation
6. It is learning through images.
- Iconic representation
7. It is learning through symbols like language or mathematical notations.
- Symbolic representation
8. Bruner advocated this kind of curriculum in which it is defined as a continuous repetition or
the revisiting of topics, subjects or themes throughout the course.
- Spiral Curriculum
9. It is the restructuring of activities based on the student’s existing knowledge.
- Scaffolding Method
10. Who “coined” the use of the scaffolding method?
- Jerome Bruner