Description : Trial-Error Learning in men and animals differ chiefly in that man places greater dependence upon Options: A) Overt activity B) Rapid and energetic action C) Symbolic manipulation D) The uniqueness of each problem
Last Answer : C) Symbolic manipulation
Description : Which of the following procedures would be best from the stand point of efficiency of acquisition for a given degree of long-term retention? Options: A) A high level of over-learning B) Reviews spaced progressively further apart C) Trial and Error D) Cramming
Last Answer : B) Reviews spaced progressively further apart
Description : Attitude, once established Options: A) Generally continue to exist even if they do not provides satisfaction for one's motives B) Can be changed relatively easily by introducing ... effectively by intellectual appeal than by emotional appeal D) Are often maintained through selective perception
Last Answer : D) Are often maintained through selective perception
Description : If a learner is 'ready’ when he begins a new task and the first teaching is good, his learning curve will probably rise Options: A) Rapidly with wide fluctuations B) Rapidly with slight fluctuations C) At a moderate but very uniform rate of speed D) Slowly but steadily
Last Answer : B) Rapidly with slight fluctuations
Description : According to State and National Codes, it would not be unethical for teachers to Options: A) Promulgate private religious views in the class-room B) Tutor members of their classes privately for pay C) Apply for a specific position that is not vacant D) Refuse to sign a contract which displease them
Last Answer : D) Refuse to sign a contract which displease them
Description : In the following list of the aspects of the guidance of learning activities, which is the most fundamental and should occur first from the stand point of time? Options: A) ... Determination of methods of presentation C) Determination of objectives D) Selection of the learning activities
Last Answer : C) Determination of objectives
Description : The best statement of the position of the teacher in the class-room is that he is Options: A) The chairman of the group B) The director of the group C) One member of the group D) The umpire of the group
Last Answer : B) The director of the group
Description : After subsiding a disturbance in the class room, the teacher's main concern should be Options: A) To punish all offenders and there by fore shall the recurrence of unacceptable behaviour B) To know ... a means of reducing tension D) To enlist group censure as a means of curbing future misbehaviour
Last Answer : B) To know the cause of the misbehaviour
Description : The best learning procedure in teaching children is to have them Options: A) Read about the way an activity can be performed B) Write about the way an activity can be performed C) See an activity as it is being performed D) Perform the activity themselves
Last Answer : D) Perform the activity themselves
Description : When a disciplinary action is necessary with a preschool child, the least acceptable technique would generally be Options: A) To isolate him by sending him to his room B) To take away some of his privileges C) To scold him D) To make him feel sorry for having hurt your feelings
Last Answer : D) To make him feel sorry for having hurt your feelings
Description : The ground rules for the class-room should be established by the Options: A) Principal B) Pupils C) Pupils and teachers D) Teacher
Last Answer : C) Pupils and teachers
Description : Which of the following best reflects democracy in the class-room? Options: A) Allowing children to sit where they want and work with whom they please B) Allowing children freedom to the ... of the class-room D) Allowing the maximum participation of all the students in class-room activities
Last Answer : C) Allowing the class to decide the curricular experiences of the class-room
Description : The key to effective class-room discipline lies in Options: A) Seeking the cause of misbehaviour and taking appropriate action B) Making an example of the leaders of any class-room mischief C) ... of the class room D) Providing a programme with inbuilt means for the satisfaction of pupil needs
Last Answer : D) Providing a programme with inbuilt means for the satisfaction of pupil needs
Description : It is generally agreed that Options: A) Each educational group should have its own independent organization B) Administrators and teachers should have separate professional organization C) Any professional organization should included several levels of leadership D) All of the above are correct
Last Answer : C) Any professional organization should included several levels of leadership
Description : The teacher's primary responsibility lies in Options: A) Planning educational experiences B) Implementing and administering policies C) Promoting human relations with parents D) Experimenting with teaching techniques
Last Answer : A) Planning educational experiences
Description : The first professional responsibility you must meet as a new teacher is to Options: A) Change the curriculum in the light of your training B) Seek to enrich the educational philosophy of ... Co-operate with your fellow teachers inspite of differences D) Change your mind as the conditions permit
Last Answer : C) Co-operate with your fellow teachers inspite of differences
Description : Which of the following is not an aspect of learning? Options: A) The accumulation of knowledge B) Cue-reduction C) Modification of perceptions D) The sensitization of nerve fibres
Last Answer : D) The sensitization of nerve fibres
Description : Recitation in learning appears most profitable when introduced Options: A) At the beginning of the learning period B) Uniformity throughout the learning period C) Towards the end of the learning period D) Only as preparation for the testing period
Last Answer : C) Towards the end of the learning period
Description : Which of the following statements appears most accurate in the light of our present knowledge of the neurophysiology underlying learning? Options: A) Learning involves neural fibres in a ... Psychologists have not been able to discover the neurophysilogical changes occurring as a person learns
Last Answer : D) To date, Psychologists have not been able to discover the neurophysilogical changes occurring as a person learns
Description : Which of the following is the least important aspect of the teacher's role in the guidance of learning? Options: A) The development of insight into what constitutes an adequate performance B) The ... avoided C) The provision of continuous diagnostic and remedial help D) The fore-stalling of habits
Last Answer : B) The development of insight into what constitute the pitfalls and dangers to be avoided
Description : Forgetting can be considered to be Options: A) A passive process of fading B) The result of incorrect learning C) The result of insufficient learning D) A case of negative transfer
Last Answer : A passive process of fading
Description : Psychologists would consider the real criterion of whether or not learning has taken place to be Options: A) Increased sensitivity to appropriate stimuli B) Increased understanding C) Improved behaviour D) Speed of reaction
Last Answer : C) Improved behaviour
Description : For maximum efficiency in learning a given passage for one single production (for example a school play), it is best to have Options: A) Many relatively short practice periods ... before the performance is required D) Relatively long practice periods concentrated just before performance is required
Last Answer : D) Relatively long practice periods concentrated just before performance is required
Description : The term intra-individual differences refers to Options: A) Differences among the various in a given individual B) Differences in a given trait between two or more individuals C) Differences in a ... curricula D) Differences in a given trait in a given individual associated with errors of measures
Last Answer : A) Differences among the various in a given individual
Description : Which of the following is the most adequate definition of learning? Options: A) The acquisition and organization of knowledge B) The development of skills C) The solving of problems D) The modification of behaviour
Last Answer : D) The modification of behaviour
Description : A series of progressive approximations to a successful performance best defines Options: A) Developmental Tasks B) Learning C) Maturation D) The Scientific Method
Last Answer : B) Learning
Description : It has been seen that the students lose much of their learning during summer vacation, which one of following shows the least depreciation over the summer months? Options: A) Arithmetic computation B) Arithmetic reasoning C) Historical dates and places D) Rules of punctuation and grammar
Last Answer : B) Arithmetic reasoning
Description : The development of desirable person's characteristics is largely a matter of Options: A) Social pressures B) Habit-formation C) Motivation D) Opportunity for learning
Last Answer : C) Motivation
Description : In order to give effective guidance to the learning of a skill, the instructor must necessarily be able Options: A) To execute the skill with a high degree of perfection B) To execute the skill ... be learned D) To foresee and forestall the development of bad habits, the occurrence of plateaus, etc
Last Answer : C) To develop in the student's insight into the nature of the skill to be learned
Description : Probably the most important of the following determinants of the effectiveness of learning is Options: A) The method of presentation B) The need of meaningfulness and understanding C) The concentration of the learning periods D) The degree of over-learning
Last Answer : B) The need of meaningfulness and understanding
Description : Which of the following is not a product of learning? Options: A) Attitudes B) Concepts C) Knowledge D) Maturation
Last Answer : D) Maturation
Description : Probably the most effective way of learning a complex and complicated skill is Options: A) To practice the whole skill over and over B) To practice each part of the skill separately C) To ... separate attention to parts where indicated D) To alternate between practice on the whole and on the parts
Last Answer : C) To practice the whole skill with separate attention to parts where indicated
Description : Which of the following statements concerning learning is the least acceptable? Options: A) Learning involves the acquisition of habits, knowledge and attitudes B) Learning involves new ways of ... resistance to the passage of a neutral impulse D) Learning represents progressive change in behaviour
Last Answer : D) Learning represents progressive change in behaviour
Description : With which of the following aspects of learning are the teachers and psychologists most directly concerned? Options: A) The products of learning B) The process of learning C) The development of habits D) The avoidance of errors
Last Answer : B) The process of learning
Description : Learning implies something in the individual Options: A) Acquired by B) Occurring to C) Occurring within D) Absorbed by
Last Answer : C) Occurring within
Description : Verbal guidance is least effective in the learning of Options: A) Attitudes B) Concepts C) Facts D) Skills
Last Answer : D) Skills
Description : Which of the following would least quality as an essential aspect of the process of learning? Options: A) Adequate readiness B) Response to stimulation C) Insight into means-end relationship D) The reinforcement of response
Last Answer : C) Insight into means-end relationship
Description : Which of the following is least acceptable Learning may Options: A) Be acquired without intent B) Occur independently of past-experience C) Be detrimental to the individual D) Take place without operation of movies and goals
Last Answer : D) Take place without operation of movies and goals
Description : The most critical factor needed to make teaching a true profession is Options: A) An improved salary scale B) A longer period of training C) Improved school-buildings D) Discipline of its own members
Last Answer : D) Discipline of its own members
Description : The main argument against teacher's strikes has been that Options: A) Teacher's strikes generally have been unsuccessful B) Salaries have risen faster than the cost of living C) Teachers contract should not be violated D) The public is sympathetic to the teacher
Last Answer : C) Teachers contract should not be violated
Description : Which of the following is not characteristic of the mentally retarded child? Options: A) He is generally above average in sensor motor and artistic aptitude B) He tends to display socially ... retarded in his physical development D) He is relatively lacking in ability to abstract and generalize
Last Answer : A) He is generally above average in sensor motor and artistic aptitude
Description : Segregation into special classes for the educable is generally recommended for approximately the lowest per cent of the general school population Options: A) One-half of one B) Two C) Five D) Ten
Last Answer : C) Five
Description : Secondary school teaching in the past held more prestige than elementary education because Options: A) The subject-matter was at a higher level of difficulty B) Secondary teachers usually had a higher ... C) Pay schedules generally were higher for secondary school teaching D) All of the above
Last Answer : D) All of the above
Description : The modern consensus regarding the sending of disciplinary cases to the principal's office is that Options: A) It should be used only when other means have failed B) It is generally ... D) It is generally advisable since the principal is ultimately responsible for the discipline in his school
Last Answer : A) It should be used only when other means have failed
Description : The trial and error method of learning according to Thorndike could be classified as under Options: A) The principle of multiple responses B) The law of exercise C) The principle of partial activity D) The principle of Associative learning
Last Answer : B) The law of exercise
Description : Which of the following would constitute the most proper action to take, if a child continues to talk after the class. has been asked to be quiet? Options: A) Speak loudly enough to be heard by ... the need for silence C) Make the whole class stay after school D) Arrange to speak to him privately
Last Answer : D) Arrange to speak to him privately
Description : The best way to establish rapport with your class is to Options: A) Demand the respect due your age and status B) Remain aloof, be a figure of authority C) Impress your students with your knowledge and skill D) Play the role of a guide who desires to help them
Last Answer : D) Play the role of a guide who desires to help them
Description : The function of a teacher primarily is that of a Options: A) Service-station attendant, filling students with knowledge B) Minister, tending to the personal and spiritual needs of children ... progress towards maximum growth D) Director, organizing and planning worth-while experiences for the class
Last Answer : C) Guide, helping the child progress towards maximum growth
Description : Political responsibilities make demands upon many people. Teachers should Options: A) Take a film stand on political issue and support their side in any way, they can B) Refuse to take a ... civic responsibilities, but refuse to be drawn into fractional disputes D) Never mention politics in class
Last Answer : C) Accept civic responsibilities, but refuse to be drawn into fractional disputes
Description : A teacher is introducing a new subject when meeting the class for the first time it would be best to Options: A) Begin with the first lesson without delay B) Give a class a ... of the previous grades D) Concentrate on identifying potential trouble-makers and leaders of the classroom mischief
Last Answer : B) Give a class a broad outline of the subject