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MODEL QUESTIONS
B.A. EDU-101 Psychological bases of Education.
(ELECTIVE EDUCATION)
Objective type questions
(Each objectives question carries 3 marks and descriptive carries 9 marks respectively)
Unit -1.
1. Define Psychology.
2. Explain the term Education.
3. What is Educational Psychology?
4. Different concepts of psychology (2013)
5. Nature of educational psychology.
6. Difference between Education and psychology.
7. What are the different methods of studying Psychology?
8. Differential method.
9. Clinical method.
10. Experimental method.
11. Need of Educational psychology.
12. Characteristics of experimental method.
DESCRIPTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS
Define psychology. Discuss how the knowledge of educational psychology helps a teacher in understanding
the behaviour of students (2013)
What is Educational Psychology? .Discuss its nature and scope (2014)
What are the various methods of study employed in modern psychology? Describe one in detail (2014)
Define Educational Psychology. State its scope and bring out the importance of Educational psychology to a
teacher.
Explain the clinical method in psychology. State its merits and demerits.
Discuss the differential method in studying human behaviour in the field of psychology(2013)
What is psychology? Describe the relation between education and psychology.
Explain how the knowledge of psychology helps the teacher in teaching learning process.
Explain in brief the Experimental method of psychology. State its merits and demerits.
Explain the differential method of psychology. State its importance in studying child’s psychology and
mention its merits and demerits.
UNIT-I I
OBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS
Explain the term Growth.
Explain the term development.
Meaning of growth and development (2013).
Characteristics of the stage of adolescence.
Intellectual development during adolescence.
What is individual difference?
What do you mean by interest?
What do you mean aptitude?
What do you mean by attention?
What is aptitude? How can it be measured?
DESCRIPTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS
1. What do you understand by the term growth and development? Bring out clearly the differences between
the two terms.
2. Explain the term growth and development. State the various aspects of development during
adolescence.
3. State the various stages of human development. What are the principles of development (2013?)
4. Enumerate and explain the important characteristics of adolescence.
5. “Adolescence is a period of stress and strain”. Explain (2014)
6. Write the principles of development. Mention the factors which effect the growth and development of
adolescent.
7. Enumerate and explain the concept of’ individual differences’ and its importance in education(2014)
8. What are the causes of individual differences? Describe the dimensions of individual difference.
9. Explain the concept of individual difference? State their educational implications.
10. Enumerate and explain the concept of individual difference and its importance in education
11. What is interest? State its nature and the importance of interest in teaching learning process.
12. ‘Interest is latent attention and attention is interest in action’ explain this statement in detail
13. What is the nature of attention; explain how you can secure the attention of the students in the
classroom
14. What is aptitude? How does it differ from intelligence, ability and achievement?
UNIT-III
OBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS
1. Explain the term intelligence.
2. Characteristics of intelligence.
3. Write a short note on intelligent quotient.(2013)
4. Mental age.
5. Define creativity.
6. Nature and characteristics of creativity.
7. Difference between creativity and intelligence.
DESCRIPTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS
1. What is intelligence? Mention the characteristics of an intelligent person and state the difference
between intelligence and creativity.
2. What do you understand by intelligent quotient, How is it determined?
3. Define creativity. Discuss the factors of creativity (2013).
4. Give the meaning of creativity. Discuss brainstorming as a technique for fostering creativity among
children(2014)
5. Define creativity. Explain in detail the different techniques of creativity.
6. What do you understand by creativity? How can it be developed through education/
7. What is creativity? Explain in detail the factors of creativity.
8. Illustrate the role of school and home in the development of creativity in children.
9. What is intelligence? Explain Thurston’s theory of intelligence(2013)
10. Explain ‘structure of intellect’ given by Guildford. State its educational implications(2014)
11. Explain ‘Two Factor Theory of intelligence” given by Spearman. State its educational implications.
12. Critically examine the important theories of intelligence which of these theories you consider as the
best? Give reason in support of your answer.
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UNIT-1V
OBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS
What is learning? Discuss its nature and characteristics.
Factors affecting learning
Insightful learning(2013
Nature of learning(2014)
Laws of learning.
Law of exercise
Learning and maturation
Transfer of learning.
DESCRIPTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS
What is learning? Discuss its nature and characteristics.
2. What is learning? What are the factors that affect learning? Discuss.
3. Give an account of Thorndike’s laws of learning and their implications in the methods of teaching
and learning(2014)
4. What is learning? State the laws and principles of learning.
5. Explain trial and error learning. Give an illustration of this theory of learning(2013)
6. Explain learning by insight. Give an illustration of this theory of learning and state its educational
implications.
7. State in brief the fundamental principles of Gestalt‘s theory of learning. What are its educational
implications?(2014)
8. Define transfer of learning. Distinguish among positive, negative and zero transfer(2013)
9. Define transfer of learning. Explain the types of transfer of learning in detail with suitable examples.
10. What is transfer of learning? What step can a teacher take to facilitate maximum positive transfer?
11. What is meant by transfer of learning? What are its underlying theories?
12. Describe the role of teacher in transfer of learning. Describe its characteristics and types of transfer
of learning.
UNIT V
OBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS
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Define personality.
Nature and characteristics of personality.
Factors affecting personality.
Aspects of human personality.
Introvert and extrovert types of personality.
Mention the characteristics of traits.
Ambivert personality(2013)
Superego(2014)
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What is personality? Differentiate between extroversion and introversion(2013)
Discuss Sigmund Freud’s theory of personality(2013)
Explain Carl Jung type theory of personality and state its educational implications.
Discuss Sigmund Freud’s theory of personality and write its educational implications.
Discuss Raymond Cattell trait approach to personality and write its educational implications.
Discuss the determinants of personality development in home and school(2014)
Elucidate trait approach by Raymond Cattell.(2014)
8. “Personality is the whole man’’ .Comment on the above statement.
9. What is personality? Elaborate on the nature and characteristics of personality.
10. Critically examine various points on view on the nature and concept of personality.
11. State the determinants of a balanced personality. What is the role of school in the development of
personality?
12. ‘Personality is the whole individual’. Comment on this statement and bring out the true meaning of
persona
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
1 .The word psychology is derived from which word?
a .Greek
b. French
c. Latin
d. None of the above
2. Psychology is the science of
a. Soul
b .Mind
c. Consciousness
d. Behaviour
Who defined” psychology as the science of behaviour
a . J. M. Cuttell
b. J.B. Watson
c. Sigmund Freud
d .Pestalozzi.
4. The area of psychology is
a. Human behaviour
b. Animal behaviour
c. Both of the above
d. None of the above
5. Who defined “psychology as a science of consciousness”?
a. Greek Philosophers
b. Pills Bury
c .William James and Wilhelm Wundt
d. Skinner
6. What is the most important contribution of psychology?
a. Proper management of discipline
b. Change in time table
c. Use of co-curricular activities
d. Students centred education
7. The father of school of psychoanalysis was
a .C .G .Jung
b. Sigmund Freud.
c. Erik Erikson
d .John Dewey
8. Which of the following is an objective method of Educational Psychology?
a. Observation.
b. Case study
c. Experimental
d. Autobiography
9. Who established the first psychological laboratory at Leipzig?
a .Tolman
b .Adler
c. Ross
d .Wundt
10. The founder of modern clinical psychology was
a. Jean Piaget
b. Allport
c .LightnerWitmere
d. W.Mc.Dougal
11. Development is the result of interaction between maturation and
a. Heredity
b. Environment
c. Nutrition
d. Learning
12. Who is the author of the book “Human Development and Education”?
a. G. W. Allport
b. J. B. Watson
c. R. J. Hauighurst
d. Jean Piaget
13. Adolescence is the stage of human development from the age of
a. 13 to 18
b. 10 to 16
c. 16 to 20
d. 6 to 12
14. Who among the following , is the author of the book ‘ Adolescence’?
a. G.W. Allport
b. Jean Piaget
c. G. Stanley Hall
d. T. Percy Nunn
15. Identity diffusion is the characteristics feature o
a. Early childhood
b. Late childhood
c. Early adolescence
d. Late adolescence
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16. The sexual life of adolescence is described as
a. Homosexual
b. Heterosexual
c. Auto-erotic
d. None of these
17. Rapid intellectual growth is marked during
a. Infancy
b. Childhood
c. Adolescence
d. Adulthood
18. Development
a. Stops with maturity
b. Is a continuous process
c. Stops when physical growth stops
d. Continues only up to adolescence
19. Who regarded adolescence as recapitulation of the first period of infancy
a. Dr. Ernest Jones
b. Stanley Hall
c. Arnold Gessell
d. Jean Piaget
20. Intelligence reaches its maximum at
a. Adolescence period
b. Infancy period
c. Childhood period
d. Adulthood
21. The concept of mental age was popularized by;
a. Thurstone.
b. Guilford.
c. Binet.
d. Spearman.
22. The exponent of the concept of intelligent Quotient (IQ) was;
a. Terman.
b. Guilford.
c. Binet.
d. Stern.
23. Intelligence Quotient is captured by using;
a. Mental age.
b. Chronological age.
c. Both of the above.
d. None of these.
24. Spearman has given the factors;
a. General factor.
b. Specific factor.
c. Both of the above.
d. None of these.
25. The concept of P.H.A ( Primary mental ability) was given by;
a. J.P Guilford.
b. Lee J Crombach
c. L.L Thurstone
d. C.M Bhatia
26. The structure of mental intellect was given by;
a. Simon
b. P.E. Vermon
c. Spearman
d. Guilford
27. Guilford has given the mental abilities
a. 24
b. 36
c. 120
d.170
28. An individual is intelligent in proportion to carry as hi is able
a. Running.
b. Abstract thinking.
c. Reflex action
d. Memorization
29. Intelligence reaches its climax during the stage of
a. Late childhood
b. Adolescence
c. Adulthood
d. Old age
30. Brain storming is a strategy for stimulating;
a. Creativity
b. Interest
c. Intelligence
d. Attitude
31. Insightful learning grew out of
a. Scientific behaviourism
b. Field Theory
c. Leaning Motivation theory
d. Association theory
32. The theory of Trial and error method of learning was put forward by
a. E. L. Thorndike
b. Ivan. P. Pavlov
c. B. F. Skinner
d. William James
33. “Practice makes a man perfect” The truth of this old saying is established by Thorndike’s law of
a. Effect
b. Primary ability
c. Exercise
d. Recency
34. When things are learnt without understanding their meaning, it is called
a. Rote memory
b. Passive memory
c. Associative memory
d. Zero transfer
35. The process by which learning is acquired in one situation and made use in another situation is
as
a. Recollection
b. Transportation
c. Registration
d. Transfer of learning
36. Insightful learning comes out of
a. Scientific behaviourism
b. Field theory
c. Learning motivation theory
d. Association theory
37. One of the main architects of the theory of “Learning by insight”
a. Pavlov
b. Kohler
c. Thorndike
d.Tolman
38. ‘Gestalt’ is a
a. French word
b. German word
c. Latin word
known
d. English word
39. Who, among the following, belonged to the school of Gestalt psychology?
a. Thorndike and Hull
b. Pavlov and Skinner
c. Koffka and Kohler
d. Watson and Guthrie
40. Who was the chief spokesman of the theory of identical elements?
a. E. L.Thorndike
b. Charles Judd
c. E.C. Tolman
d. W. Kohler
41. When past learning of one subject facilitates the learning of another subjects or activity, we call
a. Formal transfer
b. Negative transfer
c .Positive transfer
d. Zero transfer
42. Gestalt psychology means
a. A study of abnormal psychology
b .Human development from infancy to adolescence
c. A German system of psychology for the study of consciousness as an integrated whole
d. A system of American psychology that emphasised the study of the functions of consciousness
43. Personality means
a. Physical appearance
b. Mental and emotional qualities
c. A genius
d. Everything about an individual
44. Personality is
a. Individuality of a person
b. Mental and emotional qualities
c. His temperament
d. The totality of his being
45. The self theory of personality was projected by
a. C. G. Jung
b. H.J. Eysenck
c. Carl Rogers
d. Sigmund Freud
46. The term personality is derived from
a. German word
b. Greek word
c. Latin word
d. English word
47. The determinants of personality are
a. Social
b. Cultural
c. Biological
d .All of the above
48. Personality changes and development tend to be most rapid in the
a. Early stage
b. Last stage
c. Middle stage
d. Adolescent stage
49. Trait approach to personality has been developed by
a. Carl Rogers
b .Sigmund Freud
c. Carl Jung
d. R.B. Cattell
50. Psycho analytic theory of personality was developed by
a. W.H.Sheldon
b. R.B.Cattell
c. Sigmund Freud.
d. Carl Jung
51. Personality has been derived from the words
a. Person
b. Persona
c. Personal
d. Personnel