Edu 211 PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION OF EDUCATION
BY MICHAEL JACOB BOLUWATIFE PREACHER OF EQUALITY
1. Psychology can best be defined as the scientific study of (a) How to overcome emotional
problems (b) Observable action andinternal thought (c) Manipulating people’s thoughts (d) Changing
peoplefor the better.
2. Psychology can be considered a science because psychologists (a) Study topics like reading skills
and taskperformance (b) Sometimes wear lab coats and to do research (c) Use the scientific method.(d)
Try to study scientific things.
3. which of the following psychologists took the strongest view that a learner needs to play active
role in the learning process? (a) B.F Skinner (b) Willianwundt (c) Willian James (d0 John B. Watson.
4. Which of the following people does not fit the same theoretical perspective as the other three?
(a) Ivan Pavlov (b) B.F skinner (c) John B. Watson (d) Abraham Maslow.
5. Which of the following type of psychologists is not most likely to work directly in the school
system, advising students and teachers and applying knowledge about teaching and learning? (a)
Educational psychologists (b) Experimental psychologists (c) School psychologists (d) Developmental
psychologists.
6. The field of psychology that tries to explain different among individuals is (a) Developmental
psychology (b) Personality psychology (c) Industrial psychology is (d) Psychopharmacology
7. The most likely advantage for a student who takes this course in psychology is (a)An ability to
analyze people (b) Greater self-understanding (c) A better chance in a career(d) An ability to manipulate
others.
8. A relatively permanent change in observable behavior potential resulting from experience with
the environment is the definition of (a) Performance (b) Behaviorism (c) Classical conditioning (d)
Learning.
D
9. Learning in which a previously neutral stimulus elicits an involuntary response describes (a)
Learning (b) Classical conditioning (c) Associate Learning(d) Behaviour modification.
10. The primary difference between classical conditioning and operant conditioning is that: (a)
Operant conditioning involves volountary response (b) Classical conditions involvesvolountaryresponses
(c) Classical conditioning is a precursor to operant conditioning (d) classical conditioning has a stronger
relationship with the environment.
11. In Pavlov’s example, the unconditional stimulus (US) was(a)Salvation (b) Hunger(c) Meat powder
(d) A tone or bell.
12. Responding after a neutral stimulus is presented alone best describes the (a) CS (b) CR (c) US (d)
UR
13. Extinction occurs when (a) A response is conditioned gradually (b) No involountaryresponse is
involved (c) A response reappears after a delay (d) A response decreases in intensity or eventually
became erase.
14. In most cases of classical conditioning the (a) CS occurs before the US (b)CR occurs after the
UR(c) CR occurs before the CS (d) CS and US occur randomly.
15. Reinforcement is to _____ as punishment is to ____ (a) Increasing the like hood of a
behavior;decreasing the like hood of a behavior(b) Decreasing the like hood of the behavior; increasing
the like hood of a behavior (c) Positive, Negative (d) Good, Bad
16. Reinforcing a pigeon for a simple behavior, then requiring it to perform a more complex
behaviours before receiving reinforcement is known as(a) A conditioned operant response(b)The skinner
box (c) Shaping (d) Stimulus control
A
17. Which of the following schedules exists when a rewardis delivered after every ten responses? (a)
Fixed-ratio schedule (b) Variable-ratio schedule (c) Fixed-interval schedule (d) Variable –interval
schedule
18. Which of the following reinforcement schedules provides a reward at the of a particular
period,regardless of the number of response made during that term? (a) Fixed-ratio schedule (b) Fixed-
interval schedule(c) variable-ratio-schedule (d)Variable-internal schedule
19. What form of learning is based on our observationof the world around us? (a) Conditioned
tasteaversions learning (b) Operantconditioning learning(c) Classical conditioning learning (d) Social
learning.
20. This is helping profession in which psychological principles, theories and techniques are applied
to help individuals resolve their personal concerns, understand themselves and the world around them
in order to maximizetheir potentialities (a) Personnelpsychology (b) Organizational psychology (c)
Counselling psychology(d)Developmental psychology
21. You are takinga showerwhen you hear the pipes creak. Two seconds later, your shower water
turns freezing cold and you start to shiver. The next time you shower, the pipes creak again and you
shiver immediately(a) CS (b) US (c) CR (d) UR
22. You teach your dog to sit by giving him a piece of meat every time he sits on command. This
technique is an example of (a) command conditioning (b) Observational learning(c) Classical
conditioning(d) Operant conditioning.
23. The principles of operant conditioning are similar to the ideas expressed in:(a) The law of effect
(b) Discrimination training (c) Latent learning (d) Vicarious learning.
24. An English teacher promises that if Kemilola does well on the spelling test, she will not have to
stayin and study break time. The teacher is using the techniqueknown as; (a) Positive reinforcement (b)
Negative reinforcement (c) Positive punishment (d) Negative punishment.
B
25. Denying a child access to television viewing until he complete his school assignr classic example
of (a) positive reinforcement (b) Negative reinforcement (c) position punishment (d) Negative
punishment.
26. Personality is believed to be a product of (a) nature and attitude (b) nature and light (c) nature
and nurture (d) nature and nature.
27. Information is retained in sensory for about (a) Five seconds (b) one seconds (c) twenty seconds
(d) An unlimited time.
28. In order materials to move from sensory memory to short – term memory, a person must (a)
rehearse the materials (b) Encode the materials visually (c) use a memory device, such as chunking (d)
selectively attend to the materials.
29. Which of the following factors is not important for information in short-term memory? (a)
Encoding (b) Decoding (c)Mnemonics (d) Chunking.
30. Which of the following is not a type of long-term memory?(a) Procedural memory (b) Acoustic
memory (c) Episodic memory (c) Semantic memory.
31. Which of the following is not a good way to enhancenormal memory? (a) Practice materials in a
rote memorization fashion (b) Memorize in an environment that is different from the one in which you
will have to remember the material (c)Keepyour emotional arousal as low as possible(d)None of these
methods is a good way to enhance memory.
32. If memory was compared to a computer, what part would be like long-term memory? (a) Hard
drive(b) Computer monitor (c) Key on the keyboard (d) Software.
33. Which of the following factors affecting human learning is phenotypic? (a) The inherited genes
from parents (b) The learner’s personality (c) The home environment (d) The brain of the learner.
A
34. One of the three stages of prenatal development is (a) Infancy (b) Zygote(c) Germinal (d) Oral.
35. The social learning approach to social and personality stresses (a) The first five years of life (d)
The challenges a person faces throughout life (c) The series of life crises people encounter (d) What
people learn from their interaction with others.
36. Which developmental perspective focuses on heredity?(a) Biological perspective (b)
Psychological theory (c) psychosocial theory (d) Social learning perspective.
37. The social smile is a major element in the child’s development of (a) Emotions (b) Social
competence (c) Facial recognition (d) Attachment.
38. According to Piaget, individuals are capable of hypothetical reasoning at ____ stage of cognitive
development.(a) Sensory-motor (b) Pre-operational (c) Concrete operational (d) Formal operational.
38. Which of the following is not a characteristics of motivation?(a) Arouse us (b) Directs behavior
(c) Sustains behavior (d) None of the above.
39. Maslow’s Theory proposed a hierarchy of need; According to Maslow, which need is the highest
level need? (a) Safety (b) Love and belonging (c) Self-esteem (d) Self-actualization.
40. The more intense the practice, the greater the bond between stimulus and response. This is
what Thorndike calls law of ____ (a) Effect (b) Exercise (c)Readiness (d) Set of Attitude.
41. The first two weeks following conception during which the zygote begins the process of
continuous division and multiplication if cells is called ___ stage of development. (a) Embryonic (b)
Germinal (c) Foetus(d) Infancy.
42. The prenatal period of human development is subdivided into _________ (a) 5 Stages (b) 6
Stages (c) 2 Stages (d) 3 Stages.
D
43. Which of the following is a primary reinforcement? (a) Money (b)Food and Water (c)
Termination of pain (d) Both b and c.
44. Which of the following statement is not true about punishment? (a) Punishment can be used to
teach new, desired behavior such as putting toys away (b) Punishment suppresses learned behavior (c)
Punishment can set up the condition for escape and avoidance behavior, such as running away(d)
Punishment can result in learned helplessness in which a person feels powerless and stop trying.
45. During which stage of psychosocial development do children learn a sense of mastery in relation
to the world around them?(a) Industry and inferiority (b) Trust and mistrust (c) Initiative and guilt (d)
Autonomy and shame and doubt.
46. the early onset of puberty is considered _________ for boy’s and ________ for girl’s(a) An
advantage, An advantage (b) A disadvantage and Advantage (c) An advantage, A disadvantage (d) A
disadvantage, A disadvantage.
48. Menarche is (a) A sign of the beginning of puberty for females’ (b) A secondary sexual
characteristic (c) A primary sexual characteristic (d) irrelevant to puberty.
49. This is the phase of learning at which the information received is processed such that the
information is first broken pieces, grinded thoroughly and then put together to form a meaningful (a)
Acquisition (b) Storage (c) Retrieval (d) Retention
50. Reward or punishment that follows behavior determines the probability of repeating that
behavior. This phenomenon is what Thorndike called law of (a) Exercise (b) Reward (c) Readiness (d)
Effect.
51. All these are different research designs except one. (a) Case study (b) Survey (c) Correlational
study (d) Action research.
C
52. The withdrawal of an aversive stimulus (e.g. a ban on playing football) immediately after a
desirable behavior, in order to increase the probability of repeating the desirablebehavior, inorder to
increase the probability of repeating the desirable behavior is known as (a) Positive reinforcement (b)
Negative reinforcement (c) Lateral reinforcement (d) Vertical reinforcement.
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1. Psychology can best be defined as the scientific study of (a) How to overcome emotional
problems (b) Observable action andinternal thought (c) Manipulating people’s thoughts (d) Changing
peoplefor the better.
2. Psychology can be considered a science because psychologists (a) Study topics like reading skills
and taskperformance (b) Sometimes wear lab coats and to do research (c) Use the scientific method.(d)
Try to study scientific things.
3. which of the following psychologists took the strongest view that a learner needs to play active
role in the learning process? (a) B.F Skinner (b) Willianwundt (c) Willian James (d0 John B. Watson.
4. Which of the following people does not fit the same theoretical perspective as the other three?
(a) Ivan Pavlov (b) B.F skinner (c) John B. Watson (d) Abraham Maslow.
5. Which of the following type of psychologists is not most likely to work directly in the school
system, advising students and teachers and applying knowledge about teaching and learning? (a)
Educational psychologists (b) Experimental psychologists (c) School psychologists (d) Developmental
psychologists.
6. The field of psychology that tries to explain different among individuals is (a) Developmental
psychology (b) Personality psychology (c) Industrial psychology is (d) Psychopharmacology
A
7. The most likely advantage for a student who takes this course in psychology is (a)An ability to
analyze people (b) Greater self-understanding (c) A better chance in a career(d) An ability to manipulate
others.
8. A relatively permanent change in observable behavior potential resulting from experience with
the environment is the definition of (a) Performance (b) Behaviorism (c) Classical conditioning (d)
Learning.
9. Learning in which a previously neutral stimulus elicits an involuntary response describes (a)
Learning (b) Classical conditioning (c) Associate Learning(d) Behaviour modification.
10. The primary difference between classical conditioning and operant conditioning is that: (a)
Operant conditioning involves volountary response (b) Classical conditions involvesvolountaryresponses
(c) Classical conditioning is a precursor to operant conditioning (d) classical conditioning has a stronger
relationship with the environment.
11. In Pavlov’s example, the unconditional stimulus (US) was(a)Salvation (b) Hunger(c) Meat powder
(d) A tone or bell.
12. Responding after a neutral stimulus is presented alone best describes the (a) CS (b) CR (c) US (d)
UR
13. Extinction occurs when (a) A response is conditioned gradually (b) No involountaryresponse is
involved (c) A response reappears after a delay (d) A response decreases in intensity or eventually
became erase.
14. In most cases of classical conditioning the (a) CS occurs before the US (b)CR occurs after the
UR(c) CR occurs before the CS (d) CS and US occur randomly.
A
15. Reinforcement is to _____ as punishment is to ____ (a) Increasing the like hood of a
behavior;decreasing the like hood of a behavior(b) Decreasing the like hood of the behavior; increasing
the like hood of a behavior (c) Positive, Negative (d) Good, Bad
16. Reinforcing a pigeon for a simple behavior, then requiring it to perform a more complex
behaviours before receiving reinforcement is known as(a) A conditioned operant response(b)The skinner
box (c) Shaping (d) Stimulus control
17. Which of the following schedules exists when a rewardis delivered after every ten responses? (a)
Fixed-ratio schedule (b) Variable-ratio schedule (c) Fixed-interval schedule (d) Variable –interval
schedule
18. Which of the following reinforcement schedules provides a reward at the of a particular
period,regardless of the number of response made during that term? (a) Fixed-ratio schedule (b) Fixed-
interval schedule(c) variable-ratio-schedule (d)Variable-internal schedule
19. What form of learning is based on our observationof the world around us? (a) Conditioned
tasteaversions learning (b) Operantconditioning learning(c) Classical conditioning learning (d) Social
learning.
20. This is helping profession in which psychological principles, theories and techniques are applied
to help individuals resolve their personal concerns, understand themselves and the world around them
in order to maximizetheir potentialities (a) Personnelpsychology (b) Organizational psychology (c)
Counselling psychology(d)Developmental psychology
21. You are takinga showerwhen you hear the pipes creak. Two seconds later, your shower water
turns freezing cold and you start to shiver. The next time you shower, the pipes creak again and you
shiver immediately(a) CS (b) US (c) CR (d) UR
22. You teach your dog to sit by giving him a piece of meat every time he sits on command. This
technique is an example of (a) command conditioning (b) Observational learning(c) Classical
conditioning(d) Operant conditioning.
D
23. The principles of operant conditioning are similar to the ideas expressed in:(a) The law of effect
(b) Discrimination training (c) Latent learning (d) Vicarious learning.
24. An English teacher promises that if Kemilola does well on the spelling test, she will not have to
stayin and study break time. The teacher is using the techniqueknown as; (a) Positive reinforcement (b)
Negative reinforcement (c) Positive punishment (d) Negative punishment.
25. Denying a child access to television viewing until he complete his school assignr classic example
of (a) positive reinforcement (b) Negative reinforcement (c) position punishment (d) Negative
punishment.
26. Personality is believed to be a product of (a) nature and attitude (b) nature and light (c) nature
and nurture (d) nature and nature.
27. Information is retained in sensory for about (a) Five seconds (b) one seconds (c) twenty seconds
(d) An unlimited time.
28. In order materials to move from sensory memory to short – term memory, a person must (a)
rehearse the materials (b) Encode the materials visually (c) use a memory device, such as chunking (d)
selectively attend to the materials.
29. Which of the following factors is not important for information in short-term memory? (a)
Encoding (b) Decoding (c)Mnemonics (d) Chunking.
30. Which of the following is not a type of long-term memory?(a) Procedural memory (b) Acoustic
memory (c) Episodic memory (c) Semantic memory.
31. Which of the following is not a good way to enhancenormal memory? (a) Practice materials in a
rote memorization fashion (b) Memorize in an environment that is different from the one in which you
will have to remember the material (c)Keepyour emotional arousal as low as possible(d)None of these
methods is a good way to enhance memory.
32. If memory was compared to a computer, what part would be like long-term memory? (a) Hard
drive(b) Computer monitor (c) Key on the keyboard (d) Software.
33. Which of the following factors affecting human learning is phenotypic? (a) The inherited genes
from parents (b) The learner’s personality (c) The home environment (d) The brain of the learner.
34. One of the three stages of prenatal development is (a) Infancy (b) Zygote(c) Germinal (d) Oral.
35. The social learning approach to social and personality stresses (a) The first five years of life (d)
The challenges a person faces throughout life (c) The series of life crises people encounter (d) What
people learn from their interaction with others.
36. Which developmental perspective focuses on heredity?(a) Biological perspective (b)
Psychological theory (c) psychosocial theory (d) Social learning perspective.
37. The social smile is a major element in the child’s development of (a) Emotions (b) Social
competence (c) Facial recognition (d) Attachment.
38. According to Piaget, individuals are capable of hypothetical reasoning at ____ stage of cognitive
development.(a) Sensory-motor (b) Pre-operational (c) Concrete operational (d) Formal operational.
38. Which of the following is not a characteristics of motivation?(a) Arouse us (b) Directs behavior
(c) Sustains behavior (d) None of the above.
39. Maslow’s Theory proposed a hierarchy of need; According to Maslow, which need is the highest
level need? (a) Safety (b) Love and belonging (c) Self-esteem (d) Self-actualization.
D
40. The more intense the practice, the greater the bond between stimulus and response. This is
what Thorndike calls law of ____ (a) Effect (b) Exercise (c)Readiness (d) Set of Attitude.
41. The first two weeks following conception during which the zygote begins the process of
continuous division and multiplication if cells is called ___ stage of development. (a) Embryonic (b)
Germinal (c) Foetus(d) Infancy.
42. The prenatal period of human development is subdivided into _________ (a) 5 Stages (b) 6
Stages (c) 2 Stages (d) 3 Stages.
43. Which of the following is a primary reinforcement? (a) Money (b)Food and Water (c)
Termination of pain (d) Both b and c.
44. Which of the following statement is not true about punishment? (a) Punishment can be used to
teach new, desired behavior such as putting toys away (b) Punishment suppresses learned behavior (c)
Punishment can set up the condition for escape and avoidance behavior, such as running away(d)
Punishment can result in learned helplessness in which a person feels powerless and stop trying.
45. During which stage of psychosocial development do children learn a sense of mastery in relation
to the world around them?(a) Industry and inferiority (b) Trust and mistrust (c) Initiative and guilt (d)
Autonomy and shame and doubt.
46. the early onset of puberty is considered _________ for boy’s and ________ for girl’s(a) An
advantage, An advantage (b) A disadvantage and Advantage (c) An advantage, A disadvantage (d) A
disadvantage, A disadvantage.
48. Menarche is (a) A sign of the beginning of puberty for females’ (b) A secondary sexual
characteristic (c) A primary sexual characteristic (d) irrelevant to puberty.
49. This is the phase of learning at which the information received is processed such that the
information is first broken pieces, grinded thoroughly and then put together to form a meaningful (a)
Acquisition (b) Storage (c) Retrieval (d) Retention
50. Reward or punishment that follows behavior determines the probability of repeating that
behavior. This phenomenon is what Thorndike called law of (a) Exercise (b) Reward (c) Readiness (d)
Effect.
51. All these are different research designs except one. (a) Case study (b) Survey (c) Correlation
study (d) Action research.
52. The withdrawal of an aversive stimulus (e.g. a ban on playing football) immediately after a
desirable behavior, in order to increase the probability of repeating the desirable behavior, is known as
(a) Positive reinforcement (b) Negative reinforcement (c) Lateral reinforcement (d) Vertical
reinforcement.
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