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IV. Educational Psychology :– MCQ - Practice Questions with Answers
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Q1A teacher wants to assess a student's ability to solve novel problems by combining past experiences in an original way. In Sternberg's triarchic theory, which type of intelligence is most directly being assessed?
Sternberg's triarchic theory describes componential, experiential, and contextual intelligence. Experiential intelligence is the creative form: it uses past experiences in an original manner to solve new problems. A classroom task asking learners to reorganise known ideas into a new solution is therefore testing experiential intelligence rather than merely analytical or practical adjustment.
Q2A school uses one timed verbal intelligence test to label rural first-generation learners as "low ability" and then gives them a reduced curriculum. Which objection best reflects sound understanding of individual differences?
Individual differences are real, but careless measurement can harm learners. NCERT's treatment of psychological attributes warns that tests may be misused, can stigmatise children, and may underestimate children from disadvantaged backgrounds when the test favours a particular culture or language experience. A defensible school response uses multiple sources, trained interpretation, and support planning rather than a reduced-curriculum label.
Q3The idea that biological, cognitive and socio-emotional processes are interwoven in a learner's development means that a teacher should
A learner is not a set of isolated domains. Physical health, thinking, emotions, peer relations, family and classroom context influence one another, so educational decisions should be based on a holistic view of development.
Q4In a classroom, a child with high emotional intelligence is most likely to show which behaviour?
Emotional intelligence is reflected in perceiving, understanding and managing emotions in oneself and others. In school life it appears as self-awareness, self-control, empathy, responsible expression and constructive handling of interpersonal difficulty.
Q5In a constructivist lesson on evaporation, students first predict what will happen to water in different containers, test their predictions, discuss conflicting observations, and then refine their explanation. Which teacher role is most consistent with this design?
Constructivism treats learners as active makers of meaning, not as empty recipients of ready-made facts. A teacher therefore draws out prior conceptions, designs experiences that challenge weak explanations, and scaffolds discussion toward better concepts. The hard distinction is that facilitation is not laissez-faire: the teacher guides inquiry without reducing the lesson to pre-announced definitions.
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6According to the contextual view of development, which is an example of the learner's microsystem?
7Which teacher response is most likely to strengthen students' achievement motivation after a class test?
8A teacher gives students an open-ended task: 'Suggest as many useful ways as possible to reduce wastage of paper in school.' Which aspect of creativity is being encouraged most directly?
9In moral development, a learner's growing ability to judge right and wrong is best promoted when the teacher
10A teacher finds that a student's repeated rule-breaking is strongest after rejection by peers, inconsistent home supervision, and repeated academic failure. Which response best reflects an educational-psychology view of delinquent behaviour?
11A slow learner in Class IX needs more time, concrete examples, and repeated guided practice, but can progress when the teacher breaks tasks into smaller steps. Which approach best fits inclusive classroom practice?
12A learner feels a strong need to clear a difficult concept, studies different examples, solves practice items, and feels satisfied after mastering it. Which sequence is closest to the motivational cycle shown here?
13For guiding students in subject choice, which distinction between interest and aptitude is most appropriate?
14In Gardner's multiple intelligences framework, a counsellor who accurately reads students' motives, feelings, and behaviour is mainly demonstrating which intelligence?
15Which pair is correctly matched with a theory of intelligence?