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61. 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

62. 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

63. 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

64. 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

65. 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

66. 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

67. 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

68. 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

69. 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

70. 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

71. 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

72. 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

73. 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

74. 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

75. 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

76. 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

77. 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

78. Although_____is a relatively new science, it is rapidly developing a body of reliable and pertinent subject-matter.

  • A. Educational psychology
  • B. Educational philosophy
  • C. Educational process
  • D. Educational Research

Explanation: Educational psychology is comparatively young as a formal science, but it has developed reliable findings about learning, development…

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Correct answer: Educational psychology

79. Teaching, like______, is an integrative and integrated process in which the functioning of the others:

  • A. Learning
  • B. Planning
  • C. Psychology
  • D. Cooperation

Explanation: Teaching and learning are interdependent processes: teaching provides conditions and guidance, while learning reflects the learner’s…

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Correct answer: Learning

80. The screening of applicant for programs of teacher education is extremely:

  • A. Difficult
  • B. Baseless
  • C. Powerful
  • D. Important

Explanation: Teacher education directly affects the quality of future teaching, so selecting suitable applicants is important.

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Correct answer: Important
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