Free Educational Psychology MCQs with Answers
1,199 Educational Psychology MCQs from Pedagogy, each with the correct answer and a written explanation of why it is correct. Free and unlimited, with no account needed.
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.
Last updated
1,199 questions · page 3 of 60
- A. Internal inhibition
- B. Generalizations
- C. Assimilation
- D. All of the above
Explanation: The child extends one experience with her mother to all women wearing black suits, which is generalization.
Correct answer: Generalizations- A. Ordering
- B. Memorization
- C. Knowledge
- D. None of these
Explanation: Chunking improves memorization by grouping separate pieces of information into meaningful units, such as remembering a phone number in…
Correct answer: Memorization- A. analyzing
- B. evaluating
- C. synthesizing
- D. originating
Explanation: Synthesizing means combining separate pieces of information into an organized pattern or plan.
Correct answer: synthesizing- A. characterizing
- B. evaluating
- C. synthesizing
- D. originating
Explanation: In the revised Bloom taxonomy, creating or originating is the highest cognitive process because it requires producing something new from…
Correct answer: originating- A. Cognitive, Affective and Psychomotor
- B. Cognitive, Pedagogy and Psychomotor
- C. Cognitive, Affective and Pedagogy
- D. Pedagogy, Affective and Psychomotor
Explanation: Bloom’s three broad domains are cognitive, affective, and psychomotor: thinking, feeling or attitudes, and physical skills.
Correct answer: Cognitive, Affective and Psychomotor46. The first institution of higher learning in the Western world, "Academy", was founded by___________?
- A. Socrates
- B. Plato
- C. Aristotle
- D. John Dewey
Explanation: Plato founded the Academy in Athens, commonly regarded as the first institution of higher learning in the Western tradition.
Correct answer: Plato- A. believing in the rotation of the Earth
- B. not believing in the rotation of the Earth
- C. believing in gods
- D. not believing in gods
Explanation: In Plato’s Apology, Socrates was accused of impiety, including not recognizing the city’s gods and introducing new divine beings.
Correct answer: not believing in gods- A. Aristotle
- B. Plato
- C. Socrates
- D. Edward Thorndike
Explanation: Aristotle is associated with realism because he emphasized observation of the natural world and systematic inquiry, earning him the…
Correct answer: Aristotle49. Realism is a philosophical approach that argues that ultimate reality is the world of___________?
- A. ideas
- B. experiences
- C. observations
- D. physical objects
Explanation: Realism holds that reality exists independently of the mind and is grounded in the material world, especially physical objects.
Correct answer: physical objects- A. Aristotle
- B. Plato
- C. Socrates
- D. Edward Thorndike
Explanation: Plato is traditionally called the father of idealism because he treated enduring ideas or forms as more fundamental than changing sensory…
Correct answer: Plato- A. Aristotle
- B. Plato
- C. Robert Sternberg
- D. Edward Thorndike
Explanation: Edward Thorndike first formulated connectionism, explaining learning as the strengthening of associations between situations and…
Correct answer: Edward Thorndike- A. Aristotle
- B. Plato
- C. Socrates
- D. Edward Thorndike
Explanation: Aristotle is traditionally credited with establishing formal logic as a systematic discipline, especially through his work on syllogistic…
Correct answer: Aristotle- A. analysis
- B. change
- C. experiment
- D. stimuli
Explanation: Thorndike described learning as the formation of connections between stimuli and responses, so behavior is understood as responding to…
Correct answer: stimuli- A. stimulus-response bond
- B. receiving-accepting bond
- C. stimulus-response paradigm
- D. receiving-accepting paradigm
Explanation: In connectionism, the learned link between a stimulus and the response it produces is called a stimulus-response bond.
Correct answer: stimulus-response bond55. The __________ the stimulus-response bond (S-R bond), the better a person has learned the lesson.
- A. stable
- B. unstable
- C. stronger
- D. weaker
Explanation: A stronger stimulus-response bond indicates that the association has been learned more firmly.
Correct answer: stronger- A. learning
- B. stimulus
- C. connectionism
- D. physical objects
Explanation: A stimulus is anything that produces or elicits a reaction from an organism.
Correct answer: stimulus- A. Physical fitness and health
- B. Social acceptability of the person
- C. Free form psychological diseases
- D. All of the above
Explanation: Adjustment is supported by physical health, freedom from serious psychological illness, and the ability to function acceptably in social…
Correct answer: All of the above- A. Learning disabled
- B. Slow learners
- C. Educationally backward children
- D. All of the above
Explanation: Small instructional steps and frequent short assignments reduce overload and provide repeated reinforcement.
Correct answer: All of the above- A. Fear of failure in the examination
- B. Fear of social situations like meeting with people in high offices , being lonely in the house
- C. Fear of wild animals
- D. All of the above
Explanation: Fear may be triggered by academic failure, social or situational threats, and dangerous animals.
Correct answer: All of the above- A. synthetic, analytical, and practical
- B. analytical, observational and practical
- C. analytical, critical and practical
- D. abstract, synthetic and analytical
Explanation: Sternberg’s triarchic view identifies analytical intelligence for evaluating ideas, synthetic intelligence for generating novel ideas, and…
Correct answer: synthetic, analytical, and practical