Larning perspectives

1. Vygotsky emphasized the significance of the role played by which of the following factors in the learning of children?

a. Hereditary    b. Moral

c. Physical        d. Social

Ans : d

2. Which of the following is a law of learning?

a. Law of readiness

b. Law of exercise

c. Law of effect

d. All the above

Ans : d

3. The trial and error theory of learning was propounded by

a. Newton      b. Pavlov

c. Thorndike  d. Homer

Ans : c

4. Trial and error learning is also known as

a. Conditioning   b. Connection is my

c.  Insight            d. None of the above

Ans : b

5. Which one is the simplest form of cognition?

a. Conception   b. Perception

c. Sensation     d. Affection

Ans : c

6. Achievement motivation relates to

a. Need of the person

b. Knowledge of the person

c. Experience of the person

d. Aptitude of the person

Ans : a

7. The hereditary factors of learning are

a. Height and weight

b. Physical structure

c. Body composition

d. All the above

Ans : d

8. Thorndike put a hungry ___________ in a puzzle box for his experiment.

a. Dog        b. Rat

c. Cat         d. None of the above

Ans : c

9. Who propounded the Need 's Theory.

a. Frederick Herzberg

b. Alderfer

c. Abraham Maslow

d. None of the above

Ans : c

10. Pavlov was born in

a. Western Germany

b. Central Russia

c. United Kingdom

d. United States of America

Ans : b

11. Who propagated cognitive theory of teaching?

a. David Berliner

b. Donald T.  Campbell

c. Egon Brunswick

d. N. L. Gage

Ans : d

12. Insight learning was proposed by ____________

a. Edward C. Tolman

b. Kurt Lewin

c. Max wertheimer

d. Wolfgang Kohler

Ans : d

13. How can forgetting be minimised?

a. Cramming       b. Discrimination

c. Over learning  d. Recitation

Ans : c

14. The first practical intelligence test was invented by

a. Alfred Binet          b. Spearman

c. David wechsler   d. Francis Galton

Ans : a

15. The two factor theory is based on which factors?

a. Hygiene and behavioural

b. Safety and self esteem

c. Self actualisation and status quotient

d. None of the above

Ans : a

16. __________ and his colleagues in a series of experimental studies investigated observational learning in detail.

a. Skinner    b .  Bandura

c. Tolman    d. Hull

Ans : b

17. __________ is called perceptional level learning

a. Concrete to abstract

b. Know to unknown

c. Seen to unseen

d. Simple to complex.

Ans : c

18. __________ is suitable to slow learners

a. Creative writing

b.  Learning by rote

c. Role playing

d. Mechanical repetition of an action

Ans : b

19. Self actualizers share similarities who said this?

a. Abraham Maslow

b. Herzberg

c. Erikson

d. Sigmund Freud

Ans: a

20. When something previously learned benefits performance or learning new situation is said to be

a. Positive transfer of learning

b. Negative transfer of learning

c. Zero transfer of learning

d. None of the above

Ans : a

(21)What is the meaning of Learning?

 (a)Learning is a continuous process

 (b)Learning is a related to environment

 (c)Learning is universal

 (d)All above

(22)Which learning transfer of a particular task interferes with the  learning of a subsequent task?

 (a)Sequential transfer  (b)Positive transfer

 (c)Vertical transfer  (d)Negative transfer

(23)Concave shaped curve is called .................

 (a)Learning curve 

 (b)Negatively accelerated laearning

 (c)Positively accelerated learning

 (d)None of these

(24)Which motives that arises from within the individual?

 (a)Extrinsic   (b)Artificial

 (c)Intrinsic   (d)Intensity

(25)Who is introduced by self actualisation theory?

 (a)David   (b)Atkinson

 (c)Maslow   (d)Robert Glaser

(26)................. is the formation of mental image.

 (a)Sensation  (b)Concept

 (c)Perception  (d)Creation

(27)................. is a deliberate act on the part of individual to  overcome their difficulities?

 (a)Reasoning  (b)Thinking

 (c)Meta cognition (d)Problem sloving

(28)Who is coined by the term cognitive neuroscience?

 (a)Pavlov   (b)Thorndike

 (c)Lewin   (d)Michael gazzania

(29)................... Approach interprets learning as the change in the  field consisting of the  and environment?

 (a)Information processing

 (b)Constructivism

 (c)Behavionrism

 (d)Cognitive

(30)Which theory introduced the word locomotion?

 (a)Trial and error theory

 (b)Constructivist theory

 (c)Theory of learning

 (d)Expository learning

(31)................ theory is most given importance to "change  mechanism"

 (a)Social- cultural theory (b)Expository learning

 (c)Operant conditioning       (d)Information processing

(32)................. is desceibed as a special ability or specific capacity  distinct from the intellectual ability?

 (a)Intrest   (b)Attitude

 (c)Aptitude   (d)None of these

(33)Identify the children of IQ 130?

 (a)Exceptional  (b)Slow learner

 (c)Mentally retarded       (d)Gifted children

(34)Triple track plan introduced by ............... educational  provisions.

 (a)Slow learners  (b)Exceptional

 (c)Gifted children          (d)Mentally retarded

(35)Which learning difficulty involves problems with movement and coordination?

 (a)Autism   (b)Dyslexia

 (c)Dysgraphia  (d)Dyspraxia

ANSWER KEY

1. ALL ABOVE

2. NEGATIVE EDUCATION

3. POSITIVELY ACCELERATED LEARNING

4. INTRINSIC

5.MASLOW

6. CONCEPT

7. PROBLEM SOLVING

8. MICHAEL GAZZANIA

9. COGNITIVE

10. THEORY OF LEARNING

11. INFORMATION PROCESSING

12. APTITUDE

13. GIFTED CHILDREN

14.GIFTE