Free Educational Psychology MCQs with Answers

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Educational psychology applies principles of human development, learning and motivation to teaching and classroom behaviour. It covers cognitive, social, emotional and moral development, intelligence, individual differences, memory, attention, learning theories, personality, motivation and transfer of learning. Developmental psychology describes growth, while educational psychology connects that growth with educational settings.

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Moderate
  • A. Evaluation
  • B. Comprehension
  • C. Application
  • D. Knowledge

Explanation: Comprehension is the first level above knowledge because the learner must understand, interpret, or explain recalled information.

Correct answer: Comprehension
Moderate
  • A. Evaluation
  • B. Comprehension
  • C. Application
  • D. Knowledge

Explanation: Explaining Newton's third law shows that the learner understands and can express the meaning of a principle, which is comprehension.

Correct answer: Comprehension
Fairly easy
  • A. Evaluation
  • B. Comprehension
  • C. Application
  • D. Knowledge

Explanation: Knowledge is the recall of previously learned material, including facts, definitions, and principles.

Correct answer: Knowledge
Fairly easy
  • A. 4
  • B. 5
  • C. 6
  • D. 7Knowledge Management

Explanation: The original Bloom cognitive taxonomy contains six subgroups: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.

Correct answer: 6
Hard
  • A. 1955
  • B. 1956
  • C. 1958
  • D. 1959

Explanation: Bloom and his colleagues published the original cognitive-domain taxonomy in 1956.

Correct answer: 1956
Easy
  • A. Physical
  • B. Mental
  • C. Both
  • D. None of these

Explanation: The cognitive domain concerns mental processes such as remembering, understanding, applying, analysing, evaluating and creating.

Correct answer: Mental
Fairly easy
  • A. Evaluation
  • B. Comprehension
  • C. Application
  • D. Knowledge

Explanation: Knowledge was the first and most basic category in Bloom’s original cognitive hierarchy.

Correct answer: Knowledge
Moderate
  • A. Evaluation
  • B. Comprehension
  • C. Application
  • D. Knowledge

Explanation: Comprehension means interpreting or making meaning from learning material, such as explaining an idea in one’s own words.

Correct answer: Comprehension
Moderate
  • A. Cognitive
  • B. affective
  • C. psychomotor
  • D. None of these

Explanation: The cognitive domain covers intellectual learning, from simple facts to principles and complete theories.

Correct answer: Cognitive
Moderate
  • A. Set
  • B. Perception
  • C. Mechanism
  • D. None of these

Explanation: In Simpson’s psychomotor taxonomy, mechanism is the stage at which a learned response becomes habitual and can be performed with…

Correct answer: Mechanism
Moderate
  • A. mechanism
  • B. set
  • C. perception
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Mechanism refers to learned movement patterns that can be performed with some proficiency but are not yet highly complex.

Correct answer: mechanism
Moderate
  • A. imitation
  • B. organization
  • C. valuing
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Organization involves combining or arranging different values into a consistent value system.

Correct answer: organization
Moderate
  • A. imitation
  • B. Characterization
  • C. valuing
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Characterization means that an internalized value consistently guides a person’s behaviour, such as regularly displaying safety…

Correct answer: Characterization
Moderate
  • A. perception
  • B. set
  • C. adaptation
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Adaptation is reached when a well-developed skill can be modified to meet special requirements or conditions.

Correct answer: adaptation
Moderate
  • A. mechanism
  • B. set
  • C. psychomotor
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Writing smoothly and legibly shows mechanism because the learned motor skill has become reasonably automatic and controlled.

Correct answer: mechanism
Fairly easy
  • A. simpson
  • B. karthwol
  • C. dewey
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Simpson developed the commonly taught taxonomy of the psychomotor domain, including perception, set, guided response, mechanism and…

Correct answer: simpson
Fairly easy
  • A. perception
  • B. set
  • C. adaptation
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Perception is the stage of using sensory organs to obtain cues that guide a motor response.

Correct answer: perception
Moderate
  • A. mechanism
  • B. affective
  • C. complex overt response
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Complex overt response is marked by quick, smooth and coordinated performance requiring little wasted energy.

Correct answer: complex overt response
Moderate
  • A. perception
  • B. complex overt response
  • C. cognitive
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Demonstrating correct swimming form requires a coordinated, automatic and efficient motor performance, which is a complex overt response.

Correct answer: complex overt response
Fairly easy
  • A. affective
  • B. psychomotor
  • C. cognitive
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Mental processes and intellectual learning are the focus of the cognitive domain, including remembering, understanding and reasoning.

Correct answer: cognitive