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41. Educational products, as representative of the total effect of learning, differ among_____groups and between members of the same group:

  • A. Cultural
  • B. Licensed
  • C. Successful
  • D. Existing

Explanation: Educational products differ among cultural groups because values, practices, and educational expectations vary across cultures.

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Correct answer: Cultural

42. The teacher guides or directs the learning of his pupils. The normal course of events in the classroom has often been described under the rubric, "assign-study-recite-test". This is a:

  • A. The task of the teacher
  • B. Guiding and directing learning process
  • C. Both (a) and (b)
  • D. None of these

Explanation: The teacher’s role in assigning work, supervising study, and assessing performance is described as guiding and directing the learning…

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Correct answer: Guiding and directing learning process

43. The famous book 'Educational Psychology' is written by:

  • A. Skinner Charles E.
  • B. Judd's
  • C. Wlater B.Kolesnik
  • D. Peel

Explanation: Charles E. Skinner is associated with the well-known textbook Educational Psychology.

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Correct answer: Skinner Charles E.

44. According to______Educational psychology broadly deals with the nature of learning, the difference between individuals and the study of the person in relation to society. It is the science of education.

  • A. Skinner Charles E.
  • B. Judd
  • C. Walter B.Kolesnik
  • D. Peel

Explanation: Peel defined educational psychology broadly as the study of learning, individual differences and the person’s relation to society, calling…

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Correct answer: Peel

45. According to____"Educational Psychology heals with the behavior of human beings in educational situation'.

  • A. Skinner Charles E.
  • B. Judd's
  • C. Walter B. Kolesnik
  • D. Peel

Explanation: Charles E. Skinner described educational psychology as dealing with human behaviour in educational situations.

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Correct answer: Skinner Charles E.

46. According to______educational psychology is the science which "explain the changes that take place in the individual as they pass through the various stages of development.

  • A. Skinner Charles E.
  • B. Judd
  • C. Walter B.Kolesnik
  • D. Peel
  • E. Crow and Crow

Explanation: Judd viewed educational psychology as explaining the changes occurring in an individual through the successive stages of development.

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Correct answer: Judd

47. According to_____Educational psychology is "the study of those facts and principles of psychology which help to explain and improve the process of education.

  • A. Skinner Charles E.
  • B. Judd
  • C. Walter B.Kolsnik
  • D. Peel

Explanation: Walter B. Kolesnik defined educational psychology as the study of psychological facts and principles that explain and improve education.

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Correct answer: Walter B.Kolsnik

48. What are the aspect of educational psychology?

  • A. Social
  • B. Abnormal
  • C. Individual
  • D. All of the above

Explanation: Educational psychology examines individual learners, their social relationships and educational difficulties, including abnormal behaviour…

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Correct answer: All of the above

49. According to_____Educational Psychology is the study of the Psychological aspects of educational situation.

  • A. Skinner Charles E.
  • B. Judd
  • C. Walter B. Kolsnik
  • D. Trow

Explanation: Trow defined educational psychology as the study of the psychological aspects of educational situations.

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Correct answer: Trow

50. According to_____Educational Psychology describes and explains the learning experiences of individual from birth through old age.

  • A. Skinner Charles E.
  • B. Judd
  • C. Walter B. Kolesnik
  • D. Crow and Crow

Explanation: Crow and Crow described educational psychology as explaining an individual’s learning experiences from birth through old age.

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Correct answer: Crow and Crow

51. The famous book 'Educational Psychology and teacher Education' is authored by:

  • A. G.L. Anderson
  • B. Skinner
  • C. P.A. Haul
  • D. None of these

Explanation: G. L. Anderson is credited with authoring Educational Psychology and Teacher Education.

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Correct answer: G.L. Anderson

52. According to_____Educational Psychology as an academic discipline and is focused on human behavior etc.

  • A. Skinner Charles E
  • B. Judd
  • C. Walter B. Kolesnik
  • D. G. Lester Anduerson

Explanation: G. Lester Anderson described educational psychology as an academic discipline concerned with human behavior in educational settings.

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Correct answer: G. Lester Anduerson

53. An educational psychologist is an______

  • A. Psychologist
  • B. General psychologist
  • C. Applied psychologist
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Educational psychology applies psychological principles and research to learning, teaching, assessment, and classroom problems.

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Correct answer: Applied psychologist

54. As a _______the psychological studies learning so that he can know more and more about it.

  • A. Historian
  • B. Geographer
  • C. Scientist
  • D. Sociologist

Explanation: A psychologist studies learning systematically as a scientist, using observation, evidence, and research methods rather than relying on…

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Correct answer: Scientist

55. The teacher's task described under the following broad categories.

  • A. Selecting
  • B. Organizing
  • C. Material
  • D. All of the above

Explanation: Major teaching tasks include selecting appropriate material, organizing it meaningfully, and presenting it to learners.

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Correct answer: All of the above

56. What are the aims of educational psychology?

  • A. To study the most effective ways to children
  • B. To place the learner in the best possible learning situation-independent study, larger or small-group instruction, with one or several teachers for a given course
  • C. To estimate the optimal level or age at which subject matter should be presented
  • D. All of the above

Explanation: Educational psychology aims to improve teaching and learning by identifying effective learning conditions, suitable instructional…

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Correct answer: All of the above

57. Various techniques have been employed by educational psychologists to obtain data concerning _______and their reactions:

  • A. Administrators
  • B. Teachers
  • C. organizers
  • D. Learners

Explanation: Educational psychologists primarily study learners and their reactions to teaching, learning conditions, and instructional methods.

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Correct answer: Learners

58. 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

59. 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

60. 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
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