Educational Psychology should provide prospective teachers with:

· (a) Insight into the various aspects of modern education

· (b) Principles, insights, and attitudes as points of departure for effective teaching

· (c) Research procedures by means of which to evaluate correct teaching procedures

· (d) Validated procedures to use in their teachings

24. The primary task of the teacher is:

· (a) To teach the prescribed curriculum

· (b) To stimulate and guide student learning

· (c) To promote habits of conformity to adult demands and expectations

· (d) To provide diagnostic and remedial aid wherever indicated

25. Which of the following is most likely to be the characteristic quality of the ineffective teacher?

· (a) Emphasis upon standards

· (b) Emphasis upon the control of the immediate situation

· (c) Refusal to help unless they have helped themselves

· (d) Differential treatment of students in the class

26. Which of the following teacher traits and procedures is most often given by children as the reason for not liking the teacher?

· (a) Irritable and bad temperament

· (b) Ignorance of the subject matter

· (c) Unfairness and favoritism

· (d) Unreasonable demands on the children

27. In an experiment, there are variables. Variable is?

· (a) Independent

· (b) Dependent

· (c) Organismic

· (d) All of the above

28. In an experiment, there is only one independent variable:

· (a) True

· (b) False

· (c) Neither True nor

· (d) None

29. The first step in conducting an experiment is:

· (a) To collect data

· (b) To set up a laboratory

· (c) To formulate a hypothesis

· (d) To interpret data

30. The first book of psychology was written by:

· (a) Kohler

· (b) William James

· (c) Clark Hull

· (d) Plato

31. The first book on Psychology titled “Principles of Psychology” was published in:

· (a) 1879

· (b) 1890

· (c) 1895

· (d) 1905

32. An emotionally mature person is one who:

· (a) Does not express his emotions

· (b) Is boastful

· (c) Has lack of patience

· (d) Has proper emotion at the proper time and expresses it in proper quantity in a proper way

33. Educational Psychology should provide prospective teachers with:

· (a) Insights into the various aspects of modern education

· (b) Principles, insights, and attitudes as points of departure for effective teaching

· (c) Research procedures by means of which to evaluate current teaching procedures

· (d) Rules of thumb to deal with everyday classroom situations

34. The primary task of the teacher is:

· (a) To teach the prescribed curriculum

· (b) To stimulate and guide student’s learning

· (c) To ensure that all students belong to socially acceptable peer groups

· (d) To promote habits of conformity to adult demands and expectations

35. Which of the following is the most important factor underlying the success of a beginning teacher?

· (a) His personality and ability to relate to the class

· (b) His attitudes and outlook on life

· (c) His verbal facility and organizational ability

· (d) His scholarship and intellectual ability

36. The greatest single cause of failure in beginning teachers lies in the area of:

· (a) General culture

· (b) General scholarship

· (c) Subject matter background

· (d) Inter-personal relations

37. Probably the best reminder a beginning teacher might take with him into his classroom is:

· (a) Knowledge of one’s subject is the crucial thing

· (b) Liking children is necessary and a sufficient condition for effective teaching

· (c) Pupil adjustment is the paramount educational objective

· (d) Learning is effective to the extent that it involves the goals and purposes of individual children

38. Which of the following is most likely to characterize the ineffective teacher?

· (a) Emphasis upon standards

· (b) Emphasis upon pupil discussion in the clarification of group goals

· (c) Emphasis upon the control of the immediate situation

· (d) Refusal to help children until they have helped themselves

39. The teacher’s major contribution towards the maximum self-realization of the child is best affected through:

· (a) Constant fulfillment of the child’s needs

· (b) Strict control of classroom activities

· (c) Sensitivity to pupil needs, goals, and purposes

· (d) Strict reinforcement of academic standards

40. The field of education is permeated by conflicts and misconceptions largely because:

· (a) The problems encountered in teaching call for subjectivity of interpretation

· (b) There are no best teaching methods and procedures

· (c) The problems encountered in teaching are not amenable to rigorous scientific investigation

· (d) Education has first to be practical and only secondarily to be scientific

41. Which method of research contributes most to the advancement of educational psychology as a science:

· (a) Clinical method

· (b) Experimental method

· (c) Historical method

· (d) Survey method

                        HUMAN GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT

1. Child’s heredity is determined at the time of:

· (a) Birth

· (b) Conception

· (c) Interview with the parents

· (d) Entry in the school

2. Is heredity opposed to the environment?

· (a) Yes

· (b) No

· (c) Neither of the above

3. The basic foundations of physical, mental, and personality development are laid in the period of:

· (a) Adulthood

· (b) Adolescence

· (c) Childhood

· (d) Infancy

4. The span of years during which boys and girls move from childhood to adulthood—mentally, emotionally, socially, and physically is called:

· (a) Late Childhood

· (b) Infancy

· (c) Adolescence

· (d) Adult years

5. Which is ‘Why’ age?

· (a) Early childhood

· (b) Late childhood

· (c) Puberty

· (d) Late adolescence

6. Later childhood is also known as:

· (a) Age of curiosity

· (b) Spontaneous age

· (c) Age of mental development

· (d) Gang age

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Ø Directional development is also called cephaloacaudal and proximodistal development

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9. Elizabeth Hurlock has written many books on:

· (a) Social Psychology

· (b) Mental Health

· (c) Child Psychology

· (d) Educational Psychology

10. The real carriers of heredity are:

· (a) The chromosomes

· (b) The genes

· (c) The nucleus of the cell

· (d) The ‘X’ and ‘Y’ chromosomes

11. Human development is determined:

· (a) Almost solely by the genetic makeup of the individual

· (b) Turning by individual resources over which the individual has no control

· (c) By a complex of inherited and environmental forces

· (d) The factors vary from individual to individual

12. Which of the following alternatives describes infant behavior?

· (a) Differentiated

· (b) Undifferentiated or generalized

· (c) Innate

· (d) Specialized

13. Fraternal twins are caused by:

· (a) Splitting of a fertilized egg

· (b) Two sperms entering one cell

· (c) One sperm fertilizing two egg cells

· (d) Two sperm cells fertilizing two egg cells

14. The master gland is:

· (a) Pituitary

· (b) Thyroid

· (c) Adrenal

· (d) The hypothalamus

15. Changes in behavior result from:

· (a) Learning alone

· (b) Maturation alone

· (c) Learning and maturation, both in important amounts

· (d) Maturation primarily