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This set of Educational Psychology Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Educational Psychology Set 2

Q1 | The span of years during which boys and girls move from childhood to adulthood – mentally,emotionally, socially and physically is called
  • late childhood,
  • infancy,
  • adolescence.
  • adult years.
Q2 | Which is ‘Why’ age?
  • early childhood
  • late childhood
  • puberty
  • late adolescence.
Q3 | Changes in behaviour remit from
  • learning alone.
  • maturation alone.
  • learning and maturation, both in important amounts.
  • maturation primarily.
Q4 | The concept of readiness of the learner is one of the fundamental importances to the teacher’sof
  • k.g class primarily.
  • grade i.
  • any new activity.
  • children with academic difficulties.
Q5 | If a child is afraid of school, he becomes
  • punctual.
  • regular.
  • obedient.
  • truant.
Q6 | Which is the age in which a child laughs less and smiles more i.e. he has learnt to control hisemotions?
  • babyhood
  • early childhood
  • later childhood
  • adolescence.
Q7 | A teacher confronted with frequent emotional outbursts on the part of pupil should
  • consider the suitability of demands made upon them.
  • allow them to release tensions in this way.
  • let them express this outside the class.
  • none of these.
Q8 | Which of the following is not an accepted stage in Kohlberg's Theory of MoralDevelopment?
  • interpersonal relations
  • individualism
  • social contract and social rights
  • universal principles
Q9 | An ideal teacher should concentrate
  • on teaching methods
  • on the subject being taught
  • on students and their behaviours
  • on all of these
Q10 | The motif of the concept of curricular flexibility is to benefit
  • disabled students
  • minority students
  • reserved castes
  • all of these
Q11 | Which of the following is not considered a tool for formative assessment
  • oral questions
  • mcq
  • assignments
  • projects
Q12 | What do you understand by the term Peer Group ?
  • people of same profession
  • friends and acquaintances
  • family members and relatives
  • all of these
Q13 | A problem child has
  • pampering guardians
  • hereditary problems
  • iq problems
  • physical problems
Q14 | Absenteeism can be tackled by :
  • teaching
  • punishing the students
  • giving the sweets
  • contacting the parents
Q15 | Discipline means:
  • strict-behaviour
  • severe punishment
  • obedience
  • going by the rules
Q16 | In co-education you want't to :
  • make separate rows of boys and girls
  • you give preference to boys over girls
  • you. give preference to none
  • you deal according to need
Q17 | One of the basic principles of socializing Individuals is:
  • religion
  • caste
  • educational
  • imitation
Q18 | Success in developing values is mainly dependent upon:
  • government
  • society
  • family
  • teacher
Q19 | Good reading aims at developing:
  • understanding
  • pronunciation
  • sensitivity
  • increasing factual knowledge
Q20 | One of,the students of a class hardly talks in the class. How would you encourage him toexpress himself?
  • by orgariising discussions
  • by encouraging children to takepart in classroom activities
  • by organizing educational games/ programmes in which - children feel like speaking
  • by giving good marks to thosewho express them\selves well
Q21 | In education, __________ is used to make inference about the learning and development ofstudents.
  • assessment
  • evaluation
  • measurement
  • diagnosis
Q22 | Education is a process in which knowledge and skills are transferred
  • from a few persons to few persons
  • from a few persons to a large number of people
  • from a few persons to the next generation
  • from a generation to the next generation
Q23 | Piaget's developmental sequences follow in which order?
  • pre-operational, sensory-motor, concrete operational, formal operational
  • sensory-motor, operational, concrete operational, formal operational
  • sensory-motor, preoperational, formal operational, concrete operational
  • sensory-motor, pre-operational, concrete operational, formal operational
Q24 | According to Piaget, children can reason about hypothetical entities in the ________ stage.
  • preoperational
  • sensory-motor
  • formal operational
  • concrete operational
Q25 | The period of development during which school readiness skills are developed and most freetime is spent playing with friends is called:
  • infancy.
  • early childhood.
  • middle childho