This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Ugc Net > Paper 1 > Teaching Aptitude > Educational Psychology – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Educational Psychology Quiz 1 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Unconditioned stimulus is A) Stimulus not connected to a response. B) Stimulus that automatically produces an emotional or physiological response. C) Naturally occurring emotional or physiological response. D) Stimulus that evokes an emotional or physiological response after conditioning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stimulus that automatically produces an emotional or physiological response. 2. The word Psychology is derived from which word? A) Latin. B) Greek. C) English. D) None of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Greek. 3. The ability to think abstractly and to learn. readily from experience is A) Memory. B) Thinking. C) Intelligence. D) Learning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Intelligence. 4. Adolescents are in an increased state of emotional highs and lows also known as: A) Risky behavior. B) Happiness. C) Enthusiasm. D) Moodiness. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Moodiness. 5. A teacher confronted with frequent emotional outbursts on the part of pupil should A) Consider the suitability of demands made upon them. B) Allow them to release tensions in this way. C) Let them express this outside the class. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consider the suitability of demands made upon them. 6. Which perspective believed psychology should only study observable and objectively described acts? A) Structuralism. B) Functionalism. C) Humanistic. D) Behaviorism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Behaviorism. 7. Which of the following scenarios presents the best example of encode? A) Joan remembers her first day of school. B) Brian is tickling his favorite stuffed toy. C) Tamara is playing dolls in her room. D) Julie is listening to a new song. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Julie is listening to a new song. 8. Unconditioned response is A) Stimulus not connected to a response. B) Stimulus that automatically produces an emotional or physiological response. C) Naturally occurring emotional or physiological response. D) Stimulus that evokes an emotional or physiological response after conditioning. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stimulus that evokes an emotional or physiological response after conditioning. 9. Educational psychology is concerned with A) The learner. B) The learning process. C) The learning situation. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 10. The primary task of the teacher is A) To teach the prescribed curriculum. B) To stimulate and guide student learning. C) To promote habits of conformity to adults demands and expectations. D) To provide diagnostic and remedial aid wherever indicated. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To stimulate and guide student learning. 11. Theory of classical conditioning A) Edward L.Thorndike. B) Ivan Pavlov. C) Carl Jung. D) Gustav Fechner. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ivan Pavlov. 12. Which one is not a theory of emotions A) Cannon Bard theory. B) Schachter-Singer theory. C) James-Lange theory. D) Lewin's Field theory. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lewin's Field theory. 13. One attribute seems to be characteristic of outstanding teachers:intentionality. What do intentional teachers do? A) They have a vast knowledge of the subject. B) They are creative. C) Intentional teachers are those who are constantly thinking about the outcomes they want for their students and about how each decision they make moves children toward those outcomes. D) They are dedicated. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Intentional teachers are those who are constantly thinking about the outcomes they want for their students and about how each decision they make moves children toward those outcomes. 14. The teacher's major contribution towards the maximum self realization of the child is best effected through A) Constant fulfillment of the child's needs. B) Strict control of class-room activities. C) Sensitivity to pupil needs, goals and purposes. D) Strict reinforcement of academic standards. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sensitivity to pupil needs, goals and purposes. 15. Learning takes place in this zone, challenges students and has it where they can not achieve without the help of others, things that a child has not yet learned but is capable of learning at a given time A) Piaget. B) ZPD. C) Vygotsky. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) ZPD. 16. Which of the strategies below listed do not promote expertise? A) Asking themselves questions. B) Memorization. C) Taking good notes. D) Using a study system. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Memorization. 17. See beyond here and now, problems are solved through experience A) Concrete operational. B) Preoperational stage. C) Formal operational. D) Sensorimotor operational. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Formal operational. 18. It refers to the ability of processing information with little or o effort for instance a child who have learned to read they do not think about each letter they just read. A) Acclimation. B) Metacognition. C) Strategy of construction. D) Automaticity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Automaticity. 19. How many systems are part of Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory? A) 4. B) 3. C) 2. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 5. 20. Which among the following is not associated with educational psychology A) It is a positive science not a normative science. B) It is static. C) It combines education and psychology. D) It concerned with factors, principles and techniques which related aspects of child's growth and development. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It is static. 21. Who described educational psychology as branch of Psychology which deals with teaching and learning A) E A Peel. B) Crow and crow. C) Skinner. D) Williams. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Skinner. 22. Father of intelligence testing A) Stanford. B) Alfred Binnet. C) Weschsler. D) Terman. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alfred Binnet. 23. Which is not a kind of forgetting? A) Passive. B) Natural. C) Active. D) Artificial. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Artificial. 24. Which group test was designed during world war I for persons who could not read or who did not speak English? A) Army Beta. B) WAIS. C) Stanford-Binet. D) Army Alpha. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Army Beta. 25. Intelligence is the ability of A) Abstract thinking. B) Adjusting in new situations. C) Availing of past experiences. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 26. Rehearsal is a strategy best used when students need to A) Generate examples of a concept. B) Remember a list of items for a brief period of time. C) Encode information for long-term memory. D) Organize information. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Remember a list of items for a brief period of time. 27. The third stage of Piaget's theory is ..... This includes ages 7 to 11 years old. A) Preoperational (egocentric & intuitive). B) Sensorimotor (involves seeing & hearing). C) Concrete operational (logical reasoning & operations). D) Formal operational (idealistic & logical ways of thinking). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Concrete operational (logical reasoning & operations). 28. Elements of conciousness related to which school of psychology? A) Connectionalism. B) Functionalism. C) Structuralism. D) Rationalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Structuralism. 29. What kinds of associative-reflex learning is divided into? A) Habituation and imprinting. B) Relationship, transference and sign learning. C) Sensory, motor and sensorimotor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sensory, motor and sensorimotor. 30. What shall be the child's position in the society on the basis of social and economic conditions? A) Considerable. B) Pre-supposed. C) Reprehensible. D) Bad. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pre-supposed. Next →Related QuizzesPaper 1 QuizzesUgc Net QuizzesEducational Psychology Quiz 2Educational Psychology Quiz 3Educational Psychology Quiz 4Educational Psychology Quiz 5Educational Psychology Quiz 6Educational Psychology Quiz 7Assessment And Evaluation QuizTeaching Aptitude Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books