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1421. Education as a process embodies all those forms of activities that fit an individual for social living and that help transmit customs, laws, religious beliefs, languages of social institutions from one_____to another:

  • A. Generation
  • B. Person
  • C. View
  • D. Situation

Explanation: Education transmits a society's customs, laws, beliefs, language, and institutional practices from one generation to the next.

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Correct answer: Generation

1422. The function of formal education or school learning is to set conditions that are favourable for the continued mastery of those knowledge, skills and attitudes begun in the______during early childhood.

  • A. Society
  • B. Home
  • C. School
  • D. playground

Explanation: Formal schooling continues the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that begin developing in the home during early childhood.

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Correct answer: Home

1423. The term______and learning sometimes are used synonymously:

  • A. Development
  • B. Significance
  • C. Maturation
  • D. Stimulation

Explanation: Development and learning are sometimes treated together because both describe progressive changes in behaviour and abilities.

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Correct answer: Development

1424. From the______view point education implies change and can be regarded either as process or as product:

  • A. Cultural
  • B. Individual
  • C. Psychological
  • D. Fundamental

Explanation: From the psychological viewpoint, education is understood as a process that produces changes in behaviour and as the resulting product of…

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Correct answer: Psychological

1425. Educational psychology, as an area of psychological study, is exerting a powerful influence upon the formulation of educational objectives, the construction of school curriculums, and the organization of______procedures:

  • A. Knowledge-selecting
  • B. Teaching-experience
  • C. Knowledge-development
  • D. Teaching-learning

Explanation: Educational psychology applies psychological findings to objectives, curricula, and teaching-learning procedures.

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Correct answer: Teaching-learning

1426. Attention must be given to the selection of appropriate learning materials and to the gearing of teaching techniques to meet:

  • A. Social needs
  • B. Learner needs
  • C. Educational needs
  • D. Cultural needs

Explanation: Teaching materials and techniques should be matched to learner needs, such as readiness, abilities, interests, and individual differences.

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Correct answer: Learner needs

1427. Who are becoming increasingly alert to the results of psychological studies that deal with individual patterns of growth, maturational readiness to learn, and individual differences in rate and limit of learning?

  • A. Planers
  • B. Researchers
  • C. Educators
  • D. Group leaders

Explanation: Educators use psychological research on growth, readiness, and individual learning differences to improve instruction.

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Correct answer: Educators

1428. Among the many existing_________educational agencies are the home, church, playground, library, press, club, theatre, motion pictures, radio and television:

  • A. Informal
  • B. Social
  • C. Welfare
  • D. Controlled

Explanation: The home, church, playground, media, and clubs are informal educational agencies because they teach through ordinary social and cultural…

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Correct answer: Informal

1429. Regardless of the kind or extent of_______goals, education is a dynamic force whereby optimum individual and social competence is furthered:

  • A. Favourable
  • B. Established
  • C. Informal
  • D. profitable

Explanation: Education promotes individual and social competence regardless of the established goals it is designed to serve.

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Correct answer: Established

1430. Since learning involves learner activity, educational theory and practice must represent the application of_______derived knowledge concerning human growth and maturation:

  • A. Psychologically
  • B. Selectively
  • C. Socially
  • D. Scientifically

Explanation: Educational theory applies scientifically derived knowledge about human growth and maturation to teaching and learning.

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Correct answer: Scientifically

1431. Psychologists and_____in no way minimize the significance in an individual's life of his incident learning:

  • A. Evaluators
  • B. Educators
  • C. Researchers
  • D. Critics

Explanation: Psychologists and educators recognize that incidental learning can significantly influence a person's development and daily life.

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Correct answer: Educators

1432. Schools, both public and private, have been established as definite________agencies to meet the educational needs of all age groups:

  • A. Desired
  • B. Authorized
  • C. Informal
  • D. Formal

Explanation: Schools are formal educational agencies because they are deliberately established, organized, and authorized to provide planned…

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Correct answer: Formal

1433. Education broadly interpreted at_______and continues throughout a person's life span:

  • A. Birth
  • B. Home
  • C. childhood
  • D. Youth age

Explanation: Education broadly understood begins at birth through early experiences and continues across the entire lifespan.

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Correct answer: Birth

1434. The relatively unconscious learning that are inescapable accompaniments of daily living usually are referred to as:

  • A. Out-of-date education
  • B. Informal education
  • C. Skilled education
  • D. Technical education

Explanation: Informal education consists of relatively unconscious learning acquired through ordinary daily activities and social experiences.

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Correct answer: Informal education

1435. Utilizing his understanding of the human mechanism and its functions, the teacher can adopt his techniques and procedures to individual patterns of development so that the learner is helped to profit from:

  • A. Instruction
  • B. Study
  • C. Learning
  • D. Particular condition

Explanation: By understanding development, a teacher can adapt methods to individual differences so that learners benefit more effectively from…

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Correct answer: Instruction

1436. Which degree in teaching depends to a great extent upon degree of sensitively to the developmental progress, the innate potentialities of learners?

  • A. Degree of success
  • B. Educational degree
  • C. Degree of observation
  • D. Degree of inspection

Explanation: A teacher’s success depends greatly on recognising learners’ developmental stages and individual potential, then adapting instruction…

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Correct answer: Degree of success

1437. Who should be thoroughly grounded in the subject -matter to be taught?

  • A. Evaluator
  • B. Critic
  • C. Teacher
  • D. Administrator

Explanation: The teacher must have thorough command of the subject matter because accurate explanation, examples, and responses to students depend on…

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Correct answer: Teacher

1438. Who have conducted and are continuing to conduct laboratory and classroom learning studies that are carefully planned and expertly executed?

  • A. Educational Researchers
  • B. Educational officers
  • C. Educational Psychologists
  • D. School teachers and Evaluators

Explanation: Educational psychologists systematically investigate learning through controlled laboratory studies and carefully planned classroom…

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Correct answer: Educational Psychologists

1439. Psychological study and application include many subvisions of these the content of educational psychology has significant value for:

  • A. Different group
  • B. Teenagers
  • C. Society members
  • D. School people

Explanation: Educational psychology has particular practical value for school people, including teachers, learners, counsellors, and administrators…

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Correct answer: School people

1440. Educational psychology describes and explains the learning experiences of an individual from birth through:

  • A. Teenage
  • B. Old age
  • C. Young age
  • D. Maturity

Explanation: Educational psychology considers learning and development across the lifespan, from birth through old age.

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Correct answer: Old age
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