EDU 07 Perspectives of Learning and Teaching

1. Vygotsky emphasized the significance of the role played by which of the following factors in the learning of children?
a. Hereditary    b. Moral
c. Physical        d. Social
Ans : d
2. Which of the following is a law of learning?
a. Law of readiness
b. Law of exercise
c. Law of effect
d. All the above
Ans : d
3. The trial and error theory of learning was propounded by
a. Newton      b. Pavlov
c. Thorndike  d. Homer
Ans : c
4. Trial and error learning is also known as
a. Conditioning   b. Connection is my
c.  Insight            d. None of the above
Ans : b
5. Which one is the simplest form of cognition?
a. Conception   b. Perception
c. Sensation     d. Affection
Ans : c
6. Achievement motivation relates to
a. Need of the person
b. Knowledge of the person
c. Experience of the person
d. Aptitude of the person
Ans : a
7. The hereditary factors of learning are
a. Height and weight
b. Physical structure
c. Body composition
d. All the above
Ans : d
8. Thorndike put a hungry ___________ in a puzzle box for his experiment.
a. Dog        b. Rat
c. Cat         d. None of the above
Ans : c
9. Who propounded the Need 's Theory.
a. Frederick Herzberg
b. Alderfer
c. Abraham Maslow
d. None of the above
Ans : c
10. Pavlov was born in
a. Western Germany
b. Central Russia
c. United Kingdom
d. United States of America
Ans : b
11. Who propagated cognitive theory of teaching?
a. David Berliner
b. Donald T.  Campbell
c. Egon Brunswick
d. N. L. Gage
Ans : d
12. Insight learning was proposed by ____________
a. Edward C. Tolman
b. Kurt Lewin
c. Max wertheimer
d. Wolfgang Kohler
Ans : d
13. How can forgetting be minimised?
a. Cramming       b. Discrimination
c. Over learning  d. Recitation
Ans : c
14. The first practical intelligence test was invented by
a. Alfred Binet          b. Spearman
c. David wechsler   d. Francis Galton
Ans : a
15. The two factor theory is based on which factors?
a. Hygiene and behavioural
b. Safety and self esteem
c. Self actualisation and status quotient
d. None of the above
Ans : a
16. __________ and his colleagues in a series of experimental studies investigated observational learning in detail.
a. Skinner    b .  Bandura
c. Tolman    d. Hull
Ans : b
17. __________ is called perceptional level learning
a. Concrete to abstract
b. Know to unknown
c. Seen to unseen
d. Simple to complex.
Ans : c
18. __________ is suitable to slow learners
a. Creative writing
b.  Learning by rote
c. Role playing
d. Mechanical repetition of an action
Ans : b
19. Self actualizers share similarities who said this?
a. Abraham Maslow
b. Herzberg
c. Erikson
d. Sigmund Freud
Ans: a
20. When something previously learned benefits performance or learning new situation is said to be
a. Positive transfer of learning
b. Negative transfer of learning
c. Zero transfer of learning
d. None of the above
Ans : a