About me


Dr. P. Prince Dhanaraj

Ph.D. Education, Ph.D. Economics, Ph.D. Management

Educational Consultant,

Teaching, Research & International Collaboration
South India.



PSYCHOLOGY QUESTION BANK 3 (ENGLISH)


MCQ 1: The primary aim of educational psychology is

  1. To contribute to an understanding of sound educational practices.
  2. To provide the teacher with a greater appreciation of his role in the education of the child.
  3. To provide the academic background essential for effective teaching
  4. To provide a theoretical framework for educational research.

A

MCQ 2: According to Psychology, all education is

  1. Deliberate.
  2. Functional.
  3. Purposive.
  4. Self -education.

D

MCQ 3: The best definition of Educational Psycho­logy is a study of teaching and learning” has been given by

  1. W. Kolesnik.
  2. James Ross.
  3. Charles E. Skinner.
  4. N.L. Munn.

C

MCQ 4: Who said this, “The boundaries of Educatio­nal Psychology are unlimited and chan­ging?”

  1. William James
  2. Gates
  3. Hurlock
  4. None of these.

B

MCQ 5: General Psychology and Educational Psychology are dissimilar, in that educational psychology

  1. Is concerned with the child and not with the adult.
  2. Is concerned with the various aspects of learning.
  3. Deals only with the applications and not with the theory.
  4. Selects and emphasise certain data from general field.

D

MCQ 6: The major contribution educational psycho­logy might be expected to make towards modern education lies in area of

  1. A clarification of the goals of modern education.
  2. A re-evaluation of the principles of progressivism..
  3. A reconsideration of educational experiences from the stand point of their contribution to pupil growth.
  4. A refinement of the research techniques through which educational problems might be solved..

D

MCQ 7: Educational Psychology is branch of Psycho­logy. Psychology is a science. Who is the father of experimental Psychology?

  1. Boring
  2. Hull
  3. Wundt
  4. Tolman.

C

MCQ 8: Where was first Experimental psychology Laboratory set up?

  1. Berlin
  2. Boston
  3. Frankfurt
  4. Leipzig.

D

MCQ 9: Which method has made educational psychology a science?

  1. Observation method
  2. Clinical method.
  3. Survey method
  4. Experimental method.

D

MCQ 10: The oldest method in psychology is

  1. Introspection.
  2. Observation,
  3. Case study.
  4. Clinical method.

A

MCQ 11: Introspection as a method stands rejected by

  1. Functional school.
  2. Behaviourists.
  3. Psychoanalysts.
  4. Gesralt.

B

MCQ 12: Name the method which deals with only one person at a time and promotes his adjustment

  1. Case study.
  2. Questionnaire.
  3. Clinical method.
  4. Experimental method.

C

MCQ 13: Educational psychology is concerned with

  1. The learner.
  2. The learning process.
  3. The learning situation.
  4. All of these..

D

MCQ 14: Some authors classify methods of educatio­nal psychology as

  1. Distal method..
  2. Proximal method.
  3. A and b are true.
  4. Neither a nor b are true.

C

MCQ 15: The content of educational psychology includes

  1. Special items concerning teaching and learning.
  2. Wide ranging items concerning human motivation and learning.
  3. Special items concerning processes of education in particular.
  4. None of these.

B

MCQ 16: Which of the following is not a function of educational psychology?

  1. To discover techniques by means of which educational goals can be attained effectively
  2. To define the goals for which education is to strive
  3. To promote a greater understanding of the learning process
  4. To promote a greater understanding of the learner.

B

MCQ 17: Which of the following is primary concern to educational psychologist?

  1. The formulation of hypothesis
  2. The discovery of practical solutions to educational problems
  3. The development of professional insights into the principles underlying the teaching art
  4. The discovery of teaching procedures of maximum effectiveness.

D

MCQ 18: Educational psychology should provide prospective teachers with

  1. Insight into the various aspects of modern education.
  2. Principles, insights and attitudes as points of departure for effective teaching.
  3. Research procedures by means of which to evaluate correct teaching procedures.
  4. Validate procedures to use in their teachings.

A

MCQ 19: The primary task of the teacher is

  1. To teach the prescribed curriculum.
  2. To stimulate and guide student learning.
  3. To promote habits of conformity to adults demands and expectations.
  4. To provide diagnostic and remedial aid wherever indicated.

B

MCQ 20: Which of the following teacher traits and procedures is most often given by children as the reasons for not liking the teacher?

  1. Irritable and bad temperament
  2. Ignorance of the subject matter
  3. Unfairness and favouritism.
  4. Unreasonable demands on the children..

A

MCQ 21: In an experiment there are variables. Variable is

  1. Independent.
  2. Dependent,.
  3. Organismic.
  4. All of these.

D

MCQ 22: In an experiment, there is only one independent variable

  1. True
  2. False.
  3. Neither True nor False.

A

MCQ 23: The first step in conducting an experiment is

  1. To collect data.
  2. To setup a laboratory.
  3. To formulate a hypothesis.
  4. To interpret data..

C

MCQ 24: The first book of .psychology was written by

  1. Kohler.
  2. Wrlliam James
  3. Clark Hull.
  4. Plato.

B

MCQ 25: The first book on Psychology titled “Principal Psychology” was published in

  1. 1879.
  2. 1895.
  3. 1890.
  4. 1905.

B

MCQ 26: An emotionally person is one who

  1. Does not express his emotions.
  2. Is boastful
  3. Has lack of patience.
  4. Has proper emotion at proper time and expresses it in proper quantity in a proper way.

D

MCQ 27: Which of the following is the most important factor underlying the success of beginning teacher?

  1. His personality and ability to relate to the class
  2. His attitudes and outlook on life
  3. His verbal facility and organizational ability
  4. His scholarship and intellectual ability.

A

MCQ 28: The greatest single cause of failure in beginning teachers lies in the area of

  1. General culture.
  2. General scholarship.
  3. Subject matter background.
  4. Inter-personal relations.

D

MCQ 29: Which of the following is most likely to be characterized the in-effective teacher?

  1. Emphasis upon standards
  2. Emphasis upon pupil discussion in the clarification of group goals
  3. Emphasis upon the control of the immediate situation
  4. Refusal to help children until they have helped themselves.

C

MCQ 30: The teacher’s major contribution towards the maximum self realization of the child is best effected through

  1. Constant fulfillment of the child’s needs.
  2. Strict control of class-room activities..
  3. Sensitivity pupil needs goals and purposes.
  4. Strict reinforcement of academic standards.

C

MCQ 31: Constant fulfillment of the child’s needs.

  1. The problems encountered in teaching call for subjectivity of interpretation
  2. The problems encountered in teaching call for subjectivity of interpretation
  3. The problem encountered in teaching are not amenable to rigorous scientific investigation
  4. Education has first to be practical and only secondarily to be scientific.

C

MCQ 32: Which method of research contributes most to the advancement of educational psychology as a science?

  1. Clinical method
  2. Experimental method.
  3. Historical method
  4. Survey method.

B

MCQ 33: The basic characteristic of the experimental method in education is

  1. Its isolation from the influence of one after the other factors inherent in total situation
  2. Its centre of relevant extraneous factors.
  3. Its complete analysis
  4. The applicability of its outcome to relatively unlimited population

D

MCQ 34: Experimental method has many designs such as

  1. Single group
  2. Control group
  3. Rotation group
  4. All of these.

D

MCQ 35: The basic foundations of physical, mental and personality development are laid in the period of

  1. Adulthood
  2. Adolescence.
  3. Childhood.
  4. Infancy..

C

MCQ 36: . The span of years during which boys and girls move from childhood to adulthood – mentally, emotionally, socially and physically is called

  1. Late Childhood
  2. Infancy,.
  3. Adolescence.
  4. Adult years.

C

MCQ 37: Which is ‘Why’ age?

  1. Early childhood
  2. Late childhood
  3. Puberty
  4. Late adolescence

A

MCQ 38: Later childhood is also known as

  1. Age of curiosity
  2. Spontaneous age
  3. Age of mental development
  4. Gang age.

D

MCQ 39:Can we predict development?

  1. Yes
  2. No
  3. Dont knows

A

MCQ 40: The real carriers of heredity are

  1. The chromosomes
  2. The genes.
  3. The nucleus of the cell
  4. The ‘X’ and ‘Y’ chromosomes.

B

MCQ 41: Human development is determined

  1. Almost solely by the genetic makeup of the individual..
  2. Turning by individual resources over which the individual has no control
  3. By a complex of inherited and environmental force
  4. The factors vary from individual to individual

C

MCQ 42: Which of the following alternatives describes infant behaviour?

  1. Differentiated
  2. Undifferentiated or generalised
  3. Innate
  4. Specialized

B

MCQ 43: Changes in behaviour remit from

  1. Learning alone
  2. Maturation alone
  3. Learning and maturation, both in important amounts
  4. Maturation primarily..

C

MCQ 44: Which of the following aspects of individuals development is most clearly defined by heredity?

  1. The direction
  2. The limits
  3. The level

B

MCQ 45:Which of the following ‘is not characteristic of maturation?

  1. Directional tendencies
  2. Uniformity of sequence
  3. Increasing specificity of behaviour
  4. Uniformity in rate.

C

MCQ 46: In which of the following areas are sex differences around age 11 greatest?

  1. Physical strength
  2. Fine muscular co-ordination
  3. Personality development
  4. Height and weight.

B

MCQ 47: The concept of readiness of the learner is one of the fundamental importances to the teacher’s of

  1. K.G Class primarily
  2. Grade I
  3. Any new activity.
  4. Children with academic difficulties

C

MCQ 48: An emotion is best defined as

  1. Individual’s response to situation
  2. A reaction to emotional stimuli,
  3. An excited state arising in response to a stimuli for which the individual has no adequate ready-made reactions
  4. The display of excessive behaviour as a result of intense stimuli

C

MCQ 49:Emotional experiences are

  1. Objective.
  2. Subjective
  3. Impersonal
  4. Not Known.

B

MCQ 50: Emotions rise abruptly but die

  1. Suddenly
  2. Slowly,
  3. Quickly
  4. Never

B

MCQ 51: Which is the Master emotion?

  1. Happiness
  2. Worry.
  3. Fear
  4. Anger.

C

MCQ 52: If a child is afraid of school, he becomes

  1. Punctual.
  2. Regular..
  3. Obedient
  4. Truant.

D

MCQ 53: Which is the age in which a child laughs less and smiles more i.e. he has learnt to control his emotions?

  1. Babyhood
  2. Early Childhood
  3. Later Childhood
  4. Adolescence..

C

MCQ 54: Moods are formed during

  1. Infancy.
  2. Adolescence,
  3. Adulthood.
  4. Childhood.

B

MCQ 55: The period of heightened emotionality, elation and depression, formulation of moods and sentiments is known as

  1. Old age.
  2. Early childhood,
  3. Babyhood.
  4. Adolescence.

D

MCQ 56: The overprotected child will tend to display

  1. Aggressiveness.
  2. Defensiveness..
  3. Immaturity.
  4. Negativisim..

A

MCQ 57: A teacher confronted with frequent emotional outbursts on the part of pupil should

  1. Consider the suitability of demands made upon them.
  2. Allow them to release tensions in this way.
  3. Let them express this outside the class.
  4. None of these..

A

MCQ 58: Emotions are the backbone of all development”. Do you agree?

  1. Yes
  2. No
  3. Can’t say
  4. Not sure..

A