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(a) William James

Education Question
(b) Gates
Bank – 358 MCQs
(c) Hurlock
on "Psychological
Foundations of (d) None of these.

Education" 305. General Psychology and

Educational Psychology are dissimilar,
in that educational psychology
301. The primary aim of educational
psychology is (a) Is concerned with the child and not
with the adult.
(a) To contribute to an understanding of
sound educational practices. (b) Is concerned with the various aspects
of learning.
(b) To provide the teacher with a greater
appreciation of his role in the education of (c) Deals only with the applications and
the child. not with the theory.

(c) To provide the academic background (d) Selects and emphasise certain data
essential for effective teaching. from general field.

(d) To provide a theoretical framework for 306. The major contribution educational
educational research. psychology might be expected to make
towards modern education lies in area
302. According to Psychology, all of
education is
(a) A clarification of the goals of modern
(a) Deliberate. education.

(b) Functional. (b) A re-evaluation of the principles of

progressivism.
(c) Purposive.
(c) A reconsideration of educational
(d) Self -education. experiences from the stand point of their
contribution to pupil growth.
303. The best definition of Educational
Psychology is a study of teaching and (d) A refinement of the research
learning” has been given by techniques through which educational
problems might be solved.
(a) W. Kolesnik.
307. Educational Psychology is branch
(b) James Ross. of Psychology. Psychology is a science.
Who is the father of experimental
(c) Charles E. Skinner. Psychology?

(d) N.L. Munn. (a) Boring

304. Who said this, “The boundaries of (b) Hull

Educational Psychology are unlimited
and changing?” (c) Wundt
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(d) Tolman. (c) Clinical method.

308. Where was first Experimental (d) Experimental method.

psychology Laboratory set up?
313. Educational psychology is
(a) Berlin concerned with

(b) Boston (a) The learner.

(c) Frankfurt (b) The learning process.

(d) Leipzig. (c) The learning situation.

309. Which method has made (d) All of these.

educational psychology a science?
314. Some authors classify methods of
(a) Observation method educational psychology as

(b) Clinical method (a) Distal method.

(c) Survey method (b) Proximal method.

(d) Experimental method. (c) A and b are true.

310. The oldest method in psychology is (d) Neither a nor b are true.

(a) Introspection. 315. The content of educational

psychology includes
(b) Observation,
(a) Special items concerning teaching and
(c) Case study. learning.

(d) Clinical method. (b) Wide ranging items concerning human

motivation and learning.
311. Introspection as a method stands
rejected by (c) Special items concerning processes of
education in particular.
(a) Functional school.
(d) None of these.
(b) Behaviourists.
316. Which of the following is not a
(c) Psychoanalysts. function of educational psychology?

(d) Gesralt. (a) To discover techniques by means of

which educational goals can be attained
312. Name the method which deals with effectively
only one person at a time and promotes
his adjustment (b) To define the goals for which
education is to strive
(a) Case study.
(c) To promote a greater understanding of
(b) Questionnaire. the learning process
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(d) To promote a greater understanding of (b) Ignorance of the subject matter

the learner.
(c) Unfairness and favouritism.
317. Which of the following is primary
concern to educational psychologist? (d) Unreasonable demands on the children.

(a) The formulation of hypothesis 321. In an experiment there are

variables. Variable is
(b) The discovery of practical solutions to
educational problems (a) Independent.

(c) The development of professional (b) Dependent,

insights into the principles underlying the
teaching art (c) Organismic.

(d) The discovery of teaching procedures (d) All of these.

of maximum effectiveness.
322. In an experiment, there is only one
318. Educational psychology should independent variable
provide prospective teachers with
(a) True
(a) Insight into the various aspects of
modern education. (b) False

(b) Principles, insights and attitudes as (c) Neither True nor False.
points of departure for effective teaching.
323. The first step in conducting an
(c) Research procedures by means of experiment is
which to evaluate correct teaching
procedures. (a) To collect data.

(d) Validate procedures to use in their (b) To setup a laboratory.

teachings.
(c) To formulate a hypothesis.
319. The primary task of the teacher is
(d) To interpret data.
(a) To teach the prescribed curriculum.
324. The first book of .psychology was
(b) To stimulate and guide student written by
learning.
(a) Kohler.
(c) To promote habits of conformity to
adults demands and expectations. (b) Wrlliam James,(c) Clark Hull.

(d) To provide diagnostic and remedial aid (d) Plato.

wherever indicated.
325. The first book on Psychology titled
320. Which of the following teacher “Principal Psychology” was published
traits and procedures is most often in
given by children as the reasons for not
liking the teacher? (a) 1879.

(a) Irritable and bad temperament

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(b) 1895. (c) Emphasis upon the control of the

immediate situation
(c) 1890.
(d) Refusal to help children until they have
(d) 1905. helped themselves.

326. An emotionally person is one who 330. The teacher’s major contribution
towards the maximum self realization of
(a) Does not express his emotions. the child is best effected through

(b) Is boastful. (a) Constant fulfillment of the child’s

needs.
(c) Has lack of patience.
(b) Strict control of class-room activities.
(d) Has proper emotion at proper time and
expresses it in proper quantity in a proper (c) Sensitivity pupil needs goals and
way. purposes.

327. Which of the following is the most (d) Strict reinforcement of academic
important factor underlying the success standards.
of beginning teacher?
331. The field of education is permeated
(a) His personality and ability to relate to by conflicts and misconceptions largely
the class because

(b) His attitudes and outlook on life (a) The problems encountered in teaching
call for subjectivity of interpretation.
(c) His verbal facility and organizational
ability (b) There are no best teaching methods and
procedures.
(d) His scholarship and intellectual ability.
(c) The problem encountered in teaching
328. The greatest single cause of failure are not amenable to rigorous scientific
in beginning teachers lies in the area of investigation.

(a) General culture. (d) Education has first to be practical and

only secondarily to be scientific.
(b) General scholarship.
332. Which method of research
(c) Subject matter background. contributes most to the advancement of
educational psychology as a science?
(d) Inter-personal relations.
(a) Clinical method
329. Which of the following is most
likely to be characterized the in-effective (b) Experimental method
teacher?
(c) Historical method
(a) Emphasis upon standards
(d) Survey method.
(b) Emphasis upon pupil discussion in the
clarification of group goals 333. The basic characteristic of the
experimental method in education is
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(a) Its isolation from the influence of one (b) Late childhood
after the other factors inherent in total
situation. (c) Puberty

(b) Its centre of relevant extraneous (d) Late adolescence.

factors.
338. Later childhood is also known as
(c) Its complete analysis.
(a) Age of curiosity.
(d) The applicability of its outcome to
relatively unlimited population. (b) Spontaneous age.

334. Experimental method has many (c) Age of mental development.

designs such as
(d) Gang age.
(a) Single group.
339. Can we predict development?
(b) Control group,
(a) Yes
(c) Rotation group,
(b) No
(d) All of these.
(c) Dont knows.
335. The basic foundations of physical,
mental and personality development are 340. The real carriers of heredity are
laid in the period of
(a) The chromosomes.
(a) Adulthood.
(b) The genes.
(b) Adolescence,
(c) The nucleus of the cell.
(c) Childhood.
(d) The ‘X’ and ‘Y’ chromosomes.
(d) Infancy.
341. Human development is determined
336. The span of years during which
boys and girls move from childhood to (a) Almost solely by the genetic makeup of
adulthood – mentally, emotionally, the individual.
socially and physically is called
(b) Turning by individual resources over
(a) Late Childhood, which the individual has no control.

(b) Infancy, (c) By a complex of inherited and

environmental force.
(c) Adolescence.
(d) The factors vary from individual to
(d) Adult years. individual.

337. Which is ‘Why’ age? 342. Which of the following alternatives

describes infant behaviour?
(a) Early childhood
(a) Differentiated
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(b) Undifferentiated or generalised 347. The concept of readiness of the

learner is one of the fundamental
(c) Innate importances to the teacher’s of

(d) Specialized. (a) K.G Class primarily.

343. Changes in behaviour remit from (b) Grade I.

(a) Learning alone. (c) Any new activity.

(b) Maturation alone. (d) Children with academic difficulties.

(c) Learning and maturation, both in 348. An emotion is best defined as

important amounts.
(a) Individual’s response to situation.
(d) Maturation primarily.
(b) A reaction to emotional stimuli,
344. Which of the following aspects of
individuals development is most clearly (c) An excited state arising in response to a
defined by heredity? stimuli for which the individual has no
adequate ready-made reactions,
(a) The direction
(d) The display of excessive behaviour as a
(b) The limits result of intense stimuli.

(c) The level 349. Emotional experiences are

(d) The rate. (a) Objective.

345. Which of the following ‘is not (b) Subjective.

characteristic of maturation?
(c) Impersonal.
(a) Directional tendencies
(d) Not Known.
(b) Uniformity of sequence
350. Emotions rise abruptly but die
(c) Increasing specificity of behaviour
(a) Suddenly
(d) Uniformity in rate.
(b) Slowly,
346. In which of the following areas are
sex differences around age 11 greatest? (c) Quickly

(a) Physical strength (d) Never

(b) Fine muscular co-ordination 351. Which is the Master emotion?

(c) Personality development (a) Happiness

(d) Height and weight. (b) Worry

(c) Fear
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(d) Anger (b) Defensiveness.

352. If a child is afraid of school, he (c) Immaturity.

becomes
(d) Negativisim.
(a) Punctual.
357. A teacher confronted with frequent
(b) Regular. emotional outbursts on the part of pupil
should
(c) Obedient.
(a) Consider the suitability of demands
(d) Truant. made upon them.

353. Which is the age in which a child (b) Allow them to release tensions in this
laughs less and smiles more i.e. he has way.
learnt to control his emotions?
(c) Let them express this outside the class.
(a) Babyhood
(d) None of these.
(b) Early Childhood
358. “Emotions are the backbone of all
(c) Later Childhood development”. Do you agree?

(d) Adolescence. (a) Yes

354. Moods are formed during (b) No

(a) Infancy. (c) Can’t say

(b) Adolescence, (d) Not sure.

(c) Adulthood.

(d) Childhood. Answers

355. The period of heightened 301. (a) 302. (d) 303. (c) 304. (b) 305. (d)
emotionality, elation and depression, 306. (d) 307. (c) 308. (d) 309. (d) 310. (a)
formulation of moods and sentiments is 311.(b) 312. (c) 313. (d) 314. (c) 315. (b)
known as 316. (b) 317. (d) 318. (a) 319. (b) 320.
(a)321. (d) 322. (a) 323. (c) 324. (b) 325.
(a) Old age. (b) 326. (d) 327. (a) 328. (d) 329. (c) 330.
(c) 331. (c) 332. (b) 333. (d) 334. (d) 335.
(b) Early childhood, (c) 336. (c) 337. (a) 338. (d) 339. (a) 340.
(b) 341. (c) 342. (b) 343. (c) 344. (b) 345.
(c) Babyhood. (c) 346. (b) 347. (c) 348. (c) 349. (b) 350.
(b) 351. (c) 352. (d) 353. (c) 354. (b) 355.
(d) Adolescence. (d) 356. (a) 357. (a) 358. (a)

356. The overprotected child will tend to

display

(a) Aggressiveness.