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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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- A. Young age
- B. Early age
- C. Later lives
- D. Old age
Explanation: Montessori, like Rousseau and Pestalozzi, held that early experiences shape development and behaviour in later life.
Correct answer: Later lives- A. Socrates
- B. Alexander
- C. Aristotle
- D. Johnn Heinrich Pestalozzi
Explanation: Pestalozzi closely followed Rousseau’s Emile and shared the belief that human beings are naturally good but are corrupted by society.
Correct answer: Johnn Heinrich Pestalozzi- A. Pestalozzi
- B. John Dewey
- C. Froebel
- D. None of these
Explanation: Pestalozzi was a nineteenth-century forerunner of the psychological movement because he based education on the child’s natural…
Correct answer: Pestalozzi- A. 19th
- B. 18th
- C. 21th
- D. 20th
Explanation: John Dewey lived from 1859 to 1952, so his major philosophical and educational work belongs chiefly to the twentieth century.
Correct answer: 20th305. Who believed that knowledge is continually reconfigured or reconstructed__________________________?
- A. John Dewey
- B. Jean Jaques Rousseau
- C. Robert Franklin
- D. All of these
Explanation: Dewey viewed knowledge as dynamic, reconstructed through experience and reflection rather than as a fixed collection of facts.
Correct answer: John Dewey- A. Alexander the Great
- B. Aristotle
- C. Froebel
- D. None of these
Explanation: Froebel viewed education as the development of the whole child through knowing, feeling, and doing.
Correct answer: Froebel- A. Ideal place
- B. Classroom likeness
- C. Training center
- D. None of these
Explanation: Aristotle gave the household an educational and formative role, treating it as a real training centre rather than accepting Plato's…
Correct answer: Training center- A. Socrates
- B. Plato
- C. Aristotle
- D. Pestalozzi
Explanation: Socrates held that genuine knowledge could be drawn out from within the learner through questioning, a process reflected in the Socratic…
Correct answer: Socrates- A. Rousseau
- B. Maria
- C. Dewey
- D. Plato
Explanation: Rousseau argued that children should learn through natural consequences, allowing experience to teach right and wrong instead of relying…
Correct answer: Rousseau- A. John Pestalozzi
- B. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- C. Plato
- D. None of these
Explanation: Rousseau treated education as the natural development of the child and emphasized freedom for the child to express individual abilities.
Correct answer: Jean-Jacques Rousseau311. As a physician Montessori worked with which type of children regarded as___________________________?
- A. Handicaped
- B. Psychologically impaired
- C. Intellectual
- D. A&B
Explanation: Montessori initially worked with children who were described in older terminology as handicapped or psychologically and intellectually…
Correct answer: A&B- A. British
- B. Italian
- C. Chinese
- D. Japanese
Explanation: Maria Montessori was Italian and developed her educational approach while working with children in Italy.
Correct answer: Italian313. According to Maria Montessori which age is very important of children_________________________?
- A. 1-6 years
- B. 1-5 years
- C. 1-7 years
- D. 1-10 years
Explanation: Montessori considered the first six years especially important because early childhood contains sensitive periods for rapid mental and…
Correct answer: 1-6 years- A. Home school
- B. Family
- C. Environment
- D. Society
Explanation: Rousseau argued that humans are naturally good but are corrupted by society and its artificial institutions.
Correct answer: Society- A. Ibn-e-Khaldun
- B. Socrates
- C. Charles Darwin
- D. Rousseau
Explanation: Rousseau's negative education protects the child from premature social instruction and allows natural development through activity, play…
Correct answer: Rousseau- A. Rousseau
- B. Maria Montessori
- C. Plato
- D. Abraham Lincoln
Explanation: Rousseau described education as a negative process because early education should mainly remove harmful influences and allow the child's…
Correct answer: Rousseau- A. Palaestra
- B. Quadrivium
- C. Didasealeum
- D. None of these
Explanation: Palaestra was the ancient Greek training place, especially for wrestling and other physical exercises.
Correct answer: Palaestra- A. John Dewey
- B. James
- C. Pestalozzi
- D. Helen Parkhurst
Explanation: Pestalozzi pioneered elementary education reforms by stressing child-centred learning, concrete experiences, and the balanced development…
Correct answer: Pestalozzi- A. Republic
- B. Poetics
- C. Peri Psyches
- D. The psychology
Explanation: Aristotle’s Peri Psyches, commonly known by its Latin title De Anima, is regarded as the earliest major systematic work on psychology.
Correct answer: Peri Psyches- A. Common Schools
- B. Normal Schools
- C. The Kindergarten (KG)
- D. Training centers
Explanation: Friedrich Froebel established the kindergarten, an early-childhood setting based on play, activity, and guided development.
Correct answer: The Kindergarten (KG)