All Free Pedagogy MCQs with Answers

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Fairly easy
  • A. Cognitive Approach
  • B. None of these
  • C. Both
  • D. Behaviorist approach

Explanation: Early behaviorism deliberately avoided discussing unobservable mental processes and concentrated on measurable stimuli and responses.

Correct answer: Behaviorist approach
Fairly easy
  • A. Cognitive Approach
  • B. None of these
  • C. Both
  • D. Behaviorist approach

Explanation: Behaviorism treats learning as a change in observable behavior produced by experience, conditioning, and reinforcement.

Correct answer: Behaviorist approach
Moderate
  • A. Behaviorist approach
  • B. Cognitive Approach
  • C. Both
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Mental processes such as memory, thinking, and problem-solving are the focus of the cognitive approach.

Correct answer: Cognitive Approach
Moderate
  • A. 2
  • B. 3
  • C. 4
  • D. 5

Explanation: Bruner identified three modes of representation: enactive learning through action, iconic learning through images, and symbolic learning…

Correct answer: 3
Very hard
  • A. 1929
  • B. 1930
  • C. 1931
  • D. 1932

Explanation: Watson’s 1913 manifesto marked the formal beginning of behaviorism, and the period described is commonly dated to about 1930.

Correct answer: 1930
Moderate
  • A. Scientific
  • B. Psychological
  • C. Sociological
  • D. All of these

Explanation: Behaviorism sought to make psychology scientific by studying observable events, so private mental processes were largely excluded from its…

Correct answer: Scientific
Fairly easy
  • A. Classical
  • B. Operant
  • C. Conditioning
  • D. Learning

Explanation: Conditioning refers to learning produced by environmental events and their associations or consequences.

Correct answer: Conditioning
Easy
  • A. Philosophy
  • B. History
  • C. Education
  • D. Psychology

Explanation: Psychology includes the study, diagnosis, and treatment of mental disorders through areas such as clinical psychology.

Correct answer: Psychology
Moderate
  • A. Behaviorist principles
  • B. Cognate principles
  • C. Both
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Weakening a learned fear response, as in systematic desensitization or extinction, is based on behaviorist learning principles.

Correct answer: Behaviorist principles
Hard
  • A. Psycho Psychology
  • B. Psychodynamic Psychology
  • C. Both
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Psychodynamic psychology explains conscious behavior partly through childhood experiences and unconscious conflicts.

Correct answer: Psychodynamic Psychology
Fairly easy
  • A. Dewey
  • B. Skinner
  • C. Watson
  • D. William

Explanation: John B. Watson established methodological behaviorism, which defined psychology as the scientific study of observable behavior.

Correct answer: Watson
Easy
  • A. Philosophy
  • B. Education
  • C. History
  • D. Psychology

Explanation: Emotional disorders are studied within psychology, especially clinical and abnormal psychology.

Correct answer: Psychology
Easy
  • A. Change
  • B. Fixed
  • C. Both
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Learning is generally defined as a relatively enduring change in behavior or behavioral potential resulting from experience.

Correct answer: Change
Fairly easy
  • A. Mental
  • B. Behavior
  • C. Both
  • D. None of these

Explanation: A major strength of behaviorism is that it defines behavior in observable terms and measures change objectively.

Correct answer: Behavior
Moderate
  • A. Environment
  • B. Development
  • C. All of these
  • D. Behaviors

Explanation: Behavioral stages or descriptions are concerned with identifying and classifying observable behaviors, including problem behaviors.

Correct answer: Behaviors
Hard
  • A. Observed
  • B. None observed
  • C. Both
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Skinner argued that behavior has observable environmental causes, such as antecedents and consequences, which can be studied…

Correct answer: Observed
Moderate
  • A. Teachers
  • B. Learners
  • C. Employee
  • D. Individual

Explanation: Behaviorist theory motivates learners through observable consequences, especially reinforcement such as praise, rewards, and feedback.

Correct answer: Learners
Moderate
  • A. Two
  • B. Three
  • C. Four
  • D. Five

Explanation: The behavioral model is commonly presented through three major areas: classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and observational or…

Correct answer: Three
Fairly easy
  • A. Constant
  • B. Flexible
  • C. Reflex
  • D. All of these

Explanation: In Pavlovian conditioning, a neutral stimulus becomes associated with an unconditioned reflex response and eventually elicits a…

Correct answer: Reflex
Fairly easy
  • A. Behavioral Approach
  • B. Cognitive Approach
  • C. Both
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Applied behavior analysis is grounded in the behavioral approach and uses principles such as reinforcement, prompting, and shaping.

Correct answer: Behavioral Approach