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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Hard
  • A. 13%
  • B. 75%
  • C. 3%
  • D. 6%

Explanation: The commonly cited learning-modality estimate assigns about 13% of learning to listening, although such percentages are only rough and are…

Correct answer: 13%
Very hard
  • A. 1945
  • B. 1950
  • C. 1955
  • D. 1960

Explanation: J. P. Guilford introduced the distinction between convergent and divergent production in his 1950 presidential address to the American…

Correct answer: 1950
Fairly easy
  • A. Pedagogy
  • B. Education
  • C. Environmental growth
  • D. Environmental Development

Explanation: Education is described as a lifelong process because learning and development continue beyond formal schooling and across all stages of…

Correct answer: Education
Moderate
  • A. Learning
  • B. Memory
  • C. Capability
  • D. Thinking

Explanation: Effective teaching does more than transmit content; it develops learners’ thinking through explanation, questioning, reasoning, and…

Correct answer: Thinking
Moderate
  • A. Spiritual Psychology
  • B. Bodily Psychology
  • C. Cognitive psychology
  • D. Unconscious mind

Explanation: Transpersonal psychology studies experiences such as spirituality, self-transcendence, and expanded states of consciousness.

Correct answer: Spiritual Psychology
Hard
  • A. School of Psychoanalysis
  • B. Humanistic psychology
  • C. Gestalt psychology
  • D. Transpersonal Psychology

Explanation: Transpersonal psychology developed after humanistic psychology and extends psychological study to spirituality and transcendent…

Correct answer: Transpersonal Psychology
Moderate
  • A. What we think in our altered states of awareness
  • B. How we feel in our altered states of awareness
  • C. Both A&B
  • D. None of the above

Explanation: Transpersonal psychology examines experiences beyond ordinary personal awareness, including thoughts and feelings during altered states.

Correct answer: Both A&B
Fairly easy
  • A. Beyond body
  • B. Beyond soul
  • C. Beyond the personal
  • D. Beyond the experience

Explanation: The prefix trans- means beyond, and personal refers to the individual self. Thus, transpersonal means beyond the personal.

Correct answer: Beyond the personal
Moderate
  • A. Transpersonal psychology
  • B. Idealism
  • C. Humanistic psychology
  • D. Gestalt psychology

Explanation: Transpersonal psychology studies unusual or altered states of consciousness, including experiences connected with different emotional or…

Correct answer: Transpersonal psychology
Moderate
  • A. Maslow's theory of Self-actualization
  • B. Behavior psychology
  • C. Piaget's Cognitive development theory
  • D. Kohler's Gestalt psychology

Explanation: Transpersonal psychology developed from humanistic psychology, especially Maslow’s idea of self-actualization and the possibility of…

Correct answer: Maslow's theory of Self-actualization
Hard
  • A. Gestalt psychology
  • B. Psychoanalysis
  • C. Humanistic Psychology
  • D. Transpersonal psychology

Explanation: Transpersonal psychology takes an integrative view of the mind, body and spiritual experience rather than treating mental processes in…

Correct answer: Transpersonal psychology
Moderate
  • A. Humanistic psychology
  • B. Cognitive development
  • C. Functionalism
  • D. Transpersonal psychology

Explanation: Transpersonal psychology often includes spiritual or religious experiences and views people as spiritual beings having physical lives.

Correct answer: Transpersonal psychology
Hard
  • A. Carl Jung
  • B. Abraham Maslow
  • C. William James
  • D. All of the above

Explanation: Jung and William James explored religious and spiritual experiences, while Maslow helped establish transpersonal psychology through…

Correct answer: All of the above
Moderate
  • A. Humanist Psychology
  • B. Behaviourism
  • C. Transpersonal psychology
  • D. Psychoanalytic theory

Explanation: Transpersonal psychology focuses on experiences that go beyond ordinary personal identity and everyday consciousness.

Correct answer: Transpersonal psychology
Moderate
  • A. Psychodynamic
  • B. Structuralism
  • C. Humanist psychology
  • D. Transpersonal psychology

Explanation: Transpersonal psychology investigates deeper consciousness and spiritual experiences that extend beyond the physical or ordinary mental…

Correct answer: Transpersonal psychology
Moderate
  • A. One
  • B. Two
  • C. Three
  • D. Four

Explanation: Kohlberg grouped moral development into three levels: pre-conventional, conventional and post-conventional.

Correct answer: Three
Moderate
  • A. German
  • B. Austrian
  • C. American
  • D. Norwegian

Explanation: Lawrence Kohlberg was an American psychologist known for his theory of moral reasoning and moral development.

Correct answer: American
Fairly easy
  • A. Pre-conventional
  • B. Conventional
  • C. Post conventional
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Pre-conventional morality is the first level, in which children judge actions mainly by punishment, obedience and personal reward.

Correct answer: Pre-conventional
Very hard
  • A. 13 years
  • B. 16 years
  • C. 20 years
  • D. None of the above

Explanation: In the simplified age ranges commonly used in these summaries, conventional morality is associated with approximately ages 10 to 13.

Correct answer: 13 years
Hard
  • A. Conventional
  • B. Pre-conventional
  • C. Post conventional
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Self-interest, personal reward and exchange characterize the pre-conventional level, especially its second stage.

Correct answer: Pre-conventional