Education Questions and Answers - Set 30 | Education MCQs

1 Development of creative thinking begins at what stage ?

1 Infancy

2 Childhood

3 Adolescence

4 Adulthood

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Answer: Childhood

2 Which stage of development is said to be overpowered with a tendency for ‘hero worship’ ?

1 Early childhood

2 Later childhood

3 Early adolescence

4 Later adolescence

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Answer:Early adolescence

3 Which of the areas individual difference is most important for organizing educational programmes effectively ?

1 Physical features along with mental characteristics

2 Social characteristics along with physical features

3 Socio - emotional characteristics

4 Socio - emotional and mental characteristics

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Answer:Socio - emotional and mental characteristics

4 According to Piaget, the most important cognitive outcome of the sensori-motor stage of development is :

1 Object permanence

2 Identification

3 Reasoning

4 Language

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Answer: Object permanence

5 Which one of the following concepts of intelligence uses associative thinking ?

1 Academic intelligence

2 Emotional intelligence

3 Spiritual intelligence

4 Numerical intelligence

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Answer: Emotional intelligence

6 In Gagne’s hierarchy of learning which one of the following will not be included in rule learning ?

1 Concept learning

2 Discrimination learning

3 S R learning

4 Problem solving learning

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Answer: Problem solving learning

7 Educational performance of a student is a function of :

1 Ability and motivation

2 Motivation and social background

3 Social background and parentage

4 Academic reputation of the school

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Answer: Ability and motivation

8 In the process of classroom teaching and learning which of the following schedules of reinforcement may not be usually found ?

1 Variable ratio schedule

2 Continuous schedule

3 Interval schedule

4 Fixed interval schedule

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Answer: Continuous schedule

9 Who in the following list of learning psychologists accepted ‘Cathexis’ as a form of learning ?

1 Tolman

2 Kurt Lewin

3 Kohler

4 Piaget

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Answer: Tolman

10 The idea of ‘Unconscious motivation’ is one of the major contributions of the psychologist :

1 Adler

2 Allport

3 Freud

4 Jung

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Answer: Freud

11 An individual tends to show immature, self centred, seductive and attention getting behaviour. The type of personality implied here is :

1 Antisocial personality

2 Histrionic personality

3 Paranoid personality

4 Compulsive personality

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Answer:Histrionic personality

12 A mentally healthy person will show which of the following behaviour ?

1 Repenting over the mistakes committed by him/her

2 Pointing out the mistakes of others

3 Exploring means of correcting his/her mistakes

4 Finding out weaknesses of others

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Answer:Exploring means of correcting his/her mistakes

13 A teacher holds discussion with a student and enables him/her to select appropriate choice of subject at higher secondary stage. This type of guidance is called :

1 Personal guidance

2 Vocational guidance

3 Educational guidance

4 Psychological guidance

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Answer: Educational guidance

14 Importance of the subject, feasibility and time needed for the study, have essentially to be kept in mind at the time of :

1 Collection of data .

2 Selection of the problem

3 Analysis of data

4 Writing the report

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Answer:Selection of the problem

15 Questions like, “What data are to be collected ? What characteristics of data are relevant and needed to be studied ? What techniques are to be used for the purpose ?” Can be answered, if :

1 Related literature is studied adequately

2 Problem is defined properly

3 Tools are constructed properly

4 Data are organized properly

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