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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- A. learning
- B. knowledge
- C. manner
- D. physical movement
Explanation: The cognitive domain deals with mental processes and knowledge, including remembering, understanding, applying, analysing, evaluating, and…
Correct answer: knowledge- A. Family
- B. Society
- C. Government
- D. Teacher
Explanation: Teachers strongly influence value development because students observe their conduct and absorb values through daily classroom interaction…
Correct answer: Teacher- A. Cognitive learning
- B. Sensory learning
- C. Experiential learning
- D. Behavioral learning
Explanation: Experiential learning develops through activities and real-life experiences that help learners meet practical needs and wants.
Correct answer: Experiential learning- A. learning
- B. knowledge
- C. manner
- D. physical movement
Explanation: The affective domain deals with feelings, attitudes, values, and dispositions, which are reflected here by manner.
Correct answer: manner- A. Socrates was student of Plato
- B. Plato was student of Socrates
- C. Socrates and Plato were brothers
- D. Socrates and Plato were colleagues
Explanation: Plato studied under Socrates and later recorded or developed many Socratic ideas in his philosophical works.
Correct answer: Plato was student of Socrates- A. increases
- B. decreases
- C. stays constant
- D. remains unaffected
Explanation: With normal ageing, sustained attention and the ability to maintain focus generally decline, especially when tasks are prolonged or…
Correct answer: decreases- A. law of effect
- B. law of exercise
- C. law of readiness
- D. law of connectionism
Explanation: Thorndike's law of exercise states that practice strengthens the connection between a situation and a response.
Correct answer: law of exercise- A. Socrates
- B. Plato
- C. Aristotle
- D. John Locke
Explanation: Plato wrote The Republic, a philosophical dialogue exploring justice, the ideal state, and education.
Correct answer: Plato- A. Knowledge Learning Models
- B. Effective Learning Models
- C. Cognitive Learning Models
- D. Psychomotor learning models
Explanation: Cognitive learning models focus on changes in mental structures, including thinking, understanding, memory, and problem-solving.
Correct answer: Cognitive Learning Models- A. economical and sociological
- B. psychological and sociological
- C. economical and philosophical
- D. sociological and philosophical
Explanation: Dewey described education as having psychological and sociological aspects: it develops the learner's capacities and connects the learner…
Correct answer: psychological and sociological- A. education
- B. learning
- C. knowledge
- D. philosophy of education
Explanation: Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that examines knowledge, including its nature, sources, limits, and justification.
Correct answer: knowledge- A. Visual Memory of the students
- B. Memorization of the students
- C. Oral Memory of the students
- D. None of these
Explanation: Briefly showing a picture and asking learners to recall its details specifically exercises visual memory.
Correct answer: Visual Memory of the students- A. innate ideas
- B. memory
- C. observation
- D. imagination
Explanation: Locke’s tabula rasa view holds that the mind begins without inborn ideas and gains knowledge through experience.
Correct answer: innate ideas- A. law of effect
- B. law of exercise
- C. law of readiness
- D. law of connectionism
Explanation: Thorndike’s law of effect explains that behaviours followed by satisfying consequences are strengthened, while those followed by…
Correct answer: law of effect- A. natural
- B. intermediate
- C. real
- D. artificial
Explanation: Aristotle described virtue as the mean, or balanced intermediate state, between two extremes: excess and deficiency.
Correct answer: intermediate- A. He understands the tone of voice .i.e. love or hate
- B. He recognizes his mother in the third month
- C. His play is self-centered
- D. All of the above
Explanation: All three behaviours reflect aspects of early social development: the child responds to emotional tone, recognises an important caregiver…
Correct answer: All of the above- A. Requests her to study despite she is not interested
- B. Give her oral work
- C. Describes the benefits of study
- D. Leave on her own in the class
Explanation: Explaining the benefits of study can build intrinsic motivation by helping the child connect learning with meaningful goals.
Correct answer: Describes the benefits of study- A. To help students get through in the examination
- B. To make students disciplined
- C. To develop the abilities of students
- D. To develop the social behaviours among students
Explanation: A teacher’s broad aim is to develop students’ abilities, including intellectual, emotional and practical capacities.
Correct answer: To develop the abilities of students- A. To give information
- B. To develop inquiring mind
- C. To develop personality of students
- D. To help students pass examinations
Explanation: Classroom teaching should cultivate curiosity and an inquiring mind rather than merely transmit information or prepare students to pass…
Correct answer: To develop inquiring mind- A. Social
- B. Natural
- C. Optional
- D. First
Explanation: The mother is traditionally described as a child’s first academy because early language, habits, values and social behavior are learned…
Correct answer: First