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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Fairly easy
  • A. Muqaddma e Tarikh
  • B. Muqaddma e sharo shairey
  • C. Tuzk-e-Jahangiri
  • D. Kimiya-e-Sadaat

Explanation: Ibn-e-Khaldun is best known for the Muqaddimah, the introductory volume to his universal history, often written in such questions as…

Correct answer: Muqaddma e Tarikh
Fairly easy
  • A. Socrates
  • B. J. S. Mill
  • C. Ibn-e-Khaldun
  • D. Al-Kindi

Explanation: Ibn-e-Khaldun wrote a major history of the Berbers as part of his broader historical work. Socrates, J. S.

Correct answer: Ibn-e-Khaldun
Very hard
  • A. 1703
  • B. 1712
  • C. 1728
  • D. 1710

Explanation: Shah Waliullah was born in 1703 in Delhi and later became a major reformer and scholar of Islamic thought in the subcontinent.

Correct answer: 1703
Very hard
  • A. Ibn-e-Khaldun
  • B. Allam Iqbal
  • C. Shah Abdul Rahim
  • D. Shah Wali Ullah

Explanation: Shah Waliullah is credited in standard South Asian history texts with making the first Persian translation of the Quran in the region.

Correct answer: Shah Wali Ullah
Moderate
  • A. Social reformation, personality development
  • B. Revival of Islamic teaching, production of dutiful citizens
  • C. Promotion of social values and recognition of the Divine Will
  • D. All of the above

Explanation: Shah Waliullah’s educational aims included religious revival, social reform, moral personality development, and the cultivation of dutiful…

Correct answer: All of the above
Moderate
  • A. Practice
  • B. Human senses
  • C. Activities
  • D. Reading books

Explanation: Iqbal emphasized observation and experience, so knowledge gained through human senses provides an important basis for authentic knowledge.

Correct answer: Human senses
Moderate
  • A. Earning
  • B. Adjustment of life
  • C. For living betterment
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Education helps the younger generation adjust to social and environmental demands by learning the knowledge, skills, and values of…

Correct answer: Adjustment of life
Fairly easy
  • A. The growth resulting from experiences
  • B. Learning to lead
  • C. Creation of new activity
  • D. Preparation for new journey

Explanation: Education is best understood as growth and development through experience, a view strongly associated with John Dewey.

Correct answer: The growth resulting from experiences
Fairly easy
  • A. Education
  • B. Sociology
  • C. Literature
  • D. History

Explanation: Education includes learning that helps a person understand and adjust to the physical and social environment.

Correct answer: Education
Fairly easy
  • A. Informal
  • B. Non-formal
  • C. Formal
  • D. All of these

Explanation: Informal education occurs outside organized formal and non-formal programs, often through family, media, work, and everyday experience.

Correct answer: Informal
Moderate
  • A. Spiritualist
  • B. Moralist
  • C. Historian
  • D. Linguist

Explanation: A spiritualist view of education emphasizes the development of the inner self, including self-realization and self-actualization.

Correct answer: Spiritualist
Moderate
  • A. Modes of education
  • B. Purposes of education
  • C. Features of education
  • D. Steps of education

Explanation: Modes of education refer to the patterns or forms through which learning produces changes in behaviour, such as formal, non-formal, and…

Correct answer: Modes of education
Moderate
  • A. Ibn-e-Sina
  • B. Al-Ghazali
  • C. Rousseau
  • D. Johnn Heinrich Pestalozzi

Explanation: Rousseau defined education as the natural development of the child in harmony with nature and the environment.

Correct answer: Rousseau
Very hard
  • A. John Dewey
  • B. John Adams
  • C. Ibn-e-Khaldun
  • D. T. Taymont

Explanation: T. Raymont described education as development from infancy to maturity and gradual adjustment to the physical and spiritual environment.

Correct answer: T. Taymont
Fairly easy
  • A. To bring up
  • B. To nourish
  • C. To raise
  • D. All of these

Explanation: Educare is a Latin root meaning to bring up, rear, nourish, or raise. Since all three options express this basic meaning, “All of these”…

Correct answer: All of these
Moderate
  • A. Educare
  • B. Educere
  • C. Educatim
  • D. Both A&B

Explanation: Education is commonly explained through the Latin roots educare, meaning to bring up or nourish, and educere, meaning to draw out.

Correct answer: Both A&B
Easy
  • A. Learning
  • B. Education
  • C. Experience
  • D. Reading

Explanation: Education is a continuous social process through which knowledge, skills, values, and cultural heritage pass between generations.

Correct answer: Education
Moderate
  • A. Education
  • B. Educatum
  • C. Learning
  • D. All of these

Explanation: The statement that education manifests the perfection already present in human beings is a well-known idealistic view of education…

Correct answer: Education
Fairly easy
  • A. French
  • B. Persian
  • C. Latin
  • D. Greek

Explanation: Educare comes from Latin and carries the sense of rearing, nourishing, or bringing up. It is not derived from Greek, Persian, or French.

Correct answer: Latin
Moderate
  • A. Froebel
  • B. J. J. Rousseau
  • C. Helen Parkhurst
  • D. Maria Montessori

Explanation: Froebel viewed education as preparation for a satisfying life guided by sound principles.

Correct answer: Froebel