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1.Noraida is a resilient child with superior intelligence. She grew up in a very poor environment. With
this condition, the probable outcome would be
a.No change in IQ because the environment deprivation has nothing to do with intelligence.
b. Slight change in IQ although he can overcome frustration and obstacle.
c. Mental retardation since he is culturally deprived.
d. Great change in IQ because he is culturally deprived.
2. The theorist proposed that human activity is based on association and response.
a. Sigmund Freud
b. BF Skinner
c. Ivan Pavlov
d. Edward Thorndike
3. If we want children to treat each other with courtesy and dignity, then we must do the same to them.
If we yell at children, they will soon be shouting each other. These behaviors are likely to be
demonstrated by children because
a. They are imitative.
b. They learn best by observing a model.
c. They are helpless and entirely dependent on adults.
d. They are afraid of their teachers if they fail to follow.
6. Thomas’ parents do not want their child with ADHD to undergo drug treatment. Their better
alternative would be
a. psychotherapy
b. behavior modification or behavior management
c. punishment
d. progressive inhibition
10. A child receives a STAR STAMP after correctly completing his task. The child always tries to complete
all tasks correctly for him to have a stamp once again. What is being shown in the situation?
a. associative learning
b. classical conditioning
c. operant conditioning
d. Pavlovian conditioning
11. What is the motivation of a person who paints for the sheer enjoyment of creating artwork?
a. intrinsic and extrinsic
b. extrinsic
c. intrinsic
d. insufficient
12. Teacher Flong bridges the student’s present skill and the desired level with a technique advised by
Vygotsky as
a. challenging
b. scaffolding
c. inspiring
d. motivating
13. Planned ignoring, signal interference, and proximity control are techniques used in ____.
a. managing temper tantrums
b. operant conditioning
c. managing surface behavior
d. life-spacing interviewing
14. What specific need whereby the person strives to develop himself to the fullest?
a. safety needs
b. physiological needs
c. sense of belonging
d. self-actualization
15. Teacher Marissa would like to employ operant conditioning on her students to increase the
probabilities of greater participation during discussion. It is highly possible that teacher Marissa will
a. put more emphasis on sharing and consistently guide them to new ideas.
b. allow them to think about thinking.
c. give a star token to those who will participate.
d. let them exercise metacognitive approaches to better understand the topic.
16. A student is finding it hard to read. When the guidance counselor traced the child’s history, the
counselor was able to find out that the student came from a dysfunctional family. Aside from that, the
child was abused and neglected. What could have caused the learner’s reading disability?
a. emotional factors
b. poor teaching
c. neurological factors
d. immaturity
17. A child was punished for cheating in exam. For sure the child won’t cheat ever again. Based on
Thorndike’s theory on punishment and learning, this shows that ____.
a. Punishment strengthens a response.
b. Punishment removes response.
c. Punishment doesn’t remove a response.
d. Punishment weakens a response.
18. Which does Noam Chomsky assert about language learning for children?
I. Young children learn and apply grammatical rules and vocabulary as they are expected to them.
II. Begin formal teaching of grammatical rules to children as early as possible.
III. Do not require initial formal language teaching for children.
19. A child who gets punished for stealing candy may not steal again immediately. But this does not
mean that the child may not steal again. Based on Thorndike’s theory on punishment and learning, this
shows that ______.
a.punishment strengthens a response
b. punishment removes a response
c. punishment does not remove a response
d. punishment weakens a response
20.A sixth grade twelve-year old boy comes from a dysfunctional family and has been abused and
neglected. He has been to two orphanages and three different elementary schools. The student can
decode on the second grade level, but he can comprehend orally material at the fourth or fifth grade
level. The most probable cause/s of this student’s reading problem is/are ___.
a. emotional factors
b. poor teaching
c. neurological factors
d. immaturity
22. In a treatment for alcoholism, Ramil was made to drink an alcoholic beverage and then made to
ingest a drug that produces nausea. Eventually, he was nauseated at the sight and smell of alcohol and
stopped drinking alcohol. Which theory explains this?
a. operant conditioning
b. social learning theory
c. associative learning
d. attribution theory
24.A mother gives his boy his favorite snack everytime the boy cleans up his room. Afterwards, the boy
cleaned his room everyday in anticipation of the snack. Which theory is illustrated?
a. associative learning
b. classical conditioning
c. operant conditioning
d. Pavlonian conditioning
26. Bruner’s theory on intellectual development moves from enactive to iconic and symbolic stages. In
which stage(s) are diagrams helpful to accompany verbal information?
a. enactive and iconic
b. symbolic
c. symbolic and enactive
d. iconic
27. Which person believed that children were born a blank slate?
a. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
b. John Locke
c. Alfred Binet
d. Sigmund Freud
28. According to the social learning theory, behaviors and personalities develop as people
a. adjust their behavior to be less like people they dislike.
b. model themselves after people they admire or associate themselves with.
c. learn to get what they want through the process of trial and error.
d. repeatedly undergo the process of operant conditioning when developing their personalities.
29. A student is nervous about a test they have coming up so they decide to study an extra hour the
night before. They can sleep well because they feel more prepared. The next day they take the test and
feel more prepared. The next day they take the test and feel confident about how they did. The test is
returned to them and they have received a perfect score, and will get an A grade for the quarter. The
student’s parents are pleased and reward them by taking them out to dinner. Name all of the intrinsic
reinforcers for the student in the story.
a. relieved anxiety, confidence, pleased parents
b. confidence, good grades, dinner
c. dinner, relieved anxiety, pleased parents
d. relieved anxiety, confidence
30. If a teacher rewards children with treats for participating in class, what type of conditioning is
occurring?
a. positive reinforcement
b. negative reinforcement
c. positive punishment
d. negative punishment
31. A child submitted a poor written report but packaged with brightly colored paper. This showcases
_____.
a. art over academics
b. substance over “porma”
c. art over Science
d. “porma” over substance
32. This premier behaviorist once said: “Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own
specified world to bring them up in and I’ll guarantee to take any one at random and train him
To become any type of specialist I might select- doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and yes, even
beggar – thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his
ancestors”.
a.Bandura
b. Watson
c. Rogers
d. Erikson
33. His best contribution to the world of education is the three (3) laws (law of effect, law of readiness
and law of exercise)
a. Rousseau
b.Pavlov
c. Thorndike
d. Skinner
34. The teachers’ widely accepted view of giving rewards to students is the legacy of
a. Dewey
b. Bruner
c. Kounin
d. Skinner
35. One of the main proponents of Gestalt and who believes that the whole is more than the sum of all
its parts.
a.Bruner
b.Thornidke
c.Wertheimer
d. Lewin
36. According to this theorist, our behavior at a particular time is a product of the interaction of two
factors, internal and external
a. Lewin
b. Wertheimer
c. Locke
d.Jung
37. He proposed that every child is born with a unique potential, his individuality, that this potential was
analyzed and transformed by education.
a.Lewin
b. Kohler
c. Herbart
d. Havighurst
39. A type of learning that focuses on the assimilation of attitudes, values and emotional reaction is
called
a. cognitive
b. affective
c. psychomotor
d. holistic
40. A type of learning that focuses on the understanding of the external through the senses and
muscles.
a. cognitive
b. affective
c. psychomotor
d. holistic
42. The emotional intelligence model focuses as a wide array of competencies and skills that drive
managerial performance, measured by multi-rater assessment and self-assessment. This model was
initiated by
a. Carol Giligan
b. Daniel Goleman
c. Noam Chomsky
d. Abraham Maslow
43. Gaining insight is a gradual process of exploring, analyzing and restructuring perceptions until a
solution is arrived. This is a _________.
a. Social learning theory
b. Wolfgang Kohler’s Insight theory
c. Gestalt theory
d. Kurt Lewin’s Field theory
a.III
b. I and II
c. I, II and III
d. I and III
46. How can teachers be effective change agents to sexuality problems, e.g. more teen pregnancies?
a. seminars on sex education
b. integrate holistic sex education in the curriculum
c. guidance and counseling
d. educational television
47. By which process do children become participating and functioning members of the society by fitting
into an organized way of life?
a. acculturation
b. assimilation
c. socialization
d. accommodation
a.III, I, IV and II
b. III, I, II and IV
c. I, II, III and IV
d. IV, III, II and I
49. At birth, the human brain contains some _____ neurons (also called as nerve cells).
a. 10 million
b. 50 million
c. 1 million
d. 50 billion
50. A preschool teacher is thinking about how to develop the fine motor skills of a 4-year old child.
Which of the following should be best to consider?
a. Ask the child to do repeated writings drill everyday.
b. Provide daily coloring book activities.
c. Conduct a variety of fun and challenging activities involving hand muscles daily.
d. Encourage the child to eat independently.
51. A common complaint of teachers about pupils is this; “You give them assignment, the following day
they come without any. You teach them this today, ask them tomorrow and they don’t know. It is as if
there is nothing that you taught them at all. “Based on the theory of information processing, what must
teachers do to counteract pupil’s forgetting?
I.Punishing every child who can’t give correct answers to questions.
II.Work for meaningful learning by connecting lesson to what pupils know.
III. Reward every child who remembers past lessons.
a.III only
b. I and III
c. II and III
d. II only
52. Behavioral followed by pleasant consequences will be strengthened and will be more likely to occur
in the future. Behavior followed by unpleasant consequences will be weakened and will be less likely to
be repeated in the future. Which one is explained?
a. Freud’s psychoanalytic theory
b. Thorndike’s law of effect
c. B.F. Skinner Operant Conditioning
d. Bandura’s Social Learning theory
53. Teacher observes cleanliness and order in her classroom to create a conducive atmosphere for
learning. On which theory is her practice based?
a. behaviorism
b. psychoanalysis
c. gestalt psychology
d. humanistic psychology
57. Fear of something that was cause by a painful experience in the past is an example of
a.insight
b.classical conditioning
c. operant conditioning
d. imitation
58. All except one is NOT a characteristic of Skinner’s reinforcement and operant conditioning.
a. Stressed the consequence of behavior in order to learn
b.Proved that reinforcement is a powerful tool in shaping and controlling behavior in and out of the
classroom
c. Emphasized the greater influence of the environment on learning and behavior that is either to
reinforce or eliminate.
d.None of the above
59. Ms. Erika in her English class accompanies her discussion with interesting visual aids. She strongly
believes that students learn better when lessons are presented with images, real or imagined aside from
mere lecture method or verbal representations. Which learning theory she upholds to?
a. Social Cognitive Theory
b. Dual-Coding Theory
c. Information Processing Approach
d. Meaningful Reception Learning Theory
60. Which of the following learning theories in Thorndike states that an organism learns by doing and
forgets by not doing, in other words, it refers to the law of use and disuse.
a. Law of Effect
b. Law of set and Attitude
c. Law of Readiness
d. Law of Exercise
61. Who among the proponents of theories of learning was known for his “Bobo Doll” experiment
wherein children imitated what they have witnessed regarding the treatment given to the Bobo doll?
a. Albert Bandura
b. Julian Rotter
c. Ivan Pavlov
d. Burrhus Skinner
62. Which of the following best describes David Ausubel’s meaningful learning is?
a. What is to be learned is new and easy for the students.
b. Materials presented are difficult and challenging to the students.
c. When the material to be learned is related to what students already know.
d. Students find the lessons very easy and relevant to what was assigned to them.
63. A student has been staring at a puzzle. She is figuring out how to solve it and suddenly, an idea
flashed in the student’s mind and excitedly she was able to learn how to solve the puzzle. This
exemplifies _____.
a. metacognition
b. insight learning
c. analytical learning
d. trial and error learning
64. A teacher attempting to develop a student’s metacognitive skills teaches the students to:
a. recall past lesson
b. visualize
c. formulate hypothesis
d. thinking about their thinking
65. A teacher maximizes the cognitive development of students by having an environment that gives
multisensorial stimulation. In this situation, the teacher’s role is:
a. molder of character
b. facilitator of learning
c. dispenser of knowledge
d. evaluator of learning
66. Ms. Normina, after learning the statements made by her colleague toward their newly appointed
principal, is carefully deliberating of whether to accept, reject or suspend judgment in such claim. What
type of thinking Ms. Normina has?
a. creative thinking
b. critical thinking
c. reflective thinking
d. logical thinking
67. When the nature of situation has a significant effect on the process of learning, this statement is
supported by what theory?
a. learning modalities
b. individual differences in learning
c. situated learning
d. learning styles
68. Like nature versus nurture, heredity and environment play a significant role in the learning process.
He proposed that environment context has interrelated major levels. But if the relationship in the
immediate system breaks down, the child will not have the tools to explore other parts of his/her
environment resulting to behavioural and academic deficiencies.
a. William Kohler
b. Robert Gagne
c. David Ausubel
d. Urie Bronfrenbrenner
69. A piece of music may sound sad, but when each note is played, there is nothing sad about it. This is
based on the Gestalt learning Theory that says:
a. The whole experience is equal to the sum of its parts.
b. The whole experience is more than the sum of its parts.
c. The whole experience is less than the sum of its parts.
d. The whole experience is not in any way related to the sum of its parts.
70. Joy, a sophomore high school student from Sto.Tomas school was well known for her abilities to
showcase her talents during the sophomore night and has the most number of acquaintances because
of her initiative to start a conversation with her peers. Joy has the intelligence of
a. interpersonal
b. intrapersonal
c. naturalist
d. existentialist
72. Jean Jacques Rousseau said that everyone is essentially good. This view can help a teacher when
____.
a.dealing with misbehaving students
b. helping the fast learners in the class
c. teaching the students some values
d. knowing the students’ potentials
73. Riffle effect can also be seen in misdemeanor. The teacher should therefore:
a. reinforce positive behavior
b. immediately respond to misbehavior
c. be consistent in classroom management
d. count 1 to 10 before he/she gets angry
74. Howard Gardner‘s Multiple Intelligence theory encourages the teachers to:
a. think in a multidisciplinary way
b. focus on IQ of students
c. consider various intelligences when creating lesson
d. present the lesson methodically
77. After surviving Bagyong Ursula, students from Leyte managed to transform their lives using the
resources available as of the moment. Hence, the system is reinforced after that environmental event
and transition in their lives.
a. chronosystem
b. mesosystem
c. macrosystem
d. exosystem
78. A pupil who has developed a love for reading keeps on reading for his employment. His motivation
for reading is
a. insufficient
b. intrinsic
c. extrinsic
d. intrinsic and extrinsic
80. The increase in the number of school children left b OFW parents intensifies the teachers’ role as
____.
a. guidance counselors
b. facilitators of learning
c. substitute parents
d. students’ friends
81. After a lesson on the atom, the students were asked to work on a physical model of the atom to
determine learning. For which group of students is building an atom model intended?
a. kinesthetically intelligent
b. interpersonal intelligent
c. mathematically intelligent
d. linguistically intelligent
a.I only
b. I and III
c. I and II
d. II only
87. Nicole enjoys games like scrabble, anagrams and password. Which type of intelligence is strong in
her?
a. interpersonal intelligence
b. linguistic intelligence
c. logical and mathematical intelligence
d. spatial intelligence
88. When learning principles is the essence of Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences?
a. Almost all learners are linguistically intelligent.
b. Intelligence is not measured on one form.
c. Learners have different IQ level.
d. Learners have static IQ.
89. Which appropriate teaching practice flows this research finding on the brain: The brain’s emotional
center is tied into its ability to learn?
a. Tell the students to participate in class activities or else won’t receive plus points.
b. Come up with highly competitive games where winners will feel happy.
c. Establish the disciple of being judgmental in attitude.
d. Create learning environment that encourages students to explore their feelings and ideas.
90. In the social-constructivist perspective, the child is given a task but he/she cannot accomplish it
alone without the assistance of adults or peers around him/her.
a. ZPD
b. The Socratic method
c. Social Learning theory
d. Peer Tutoring
91. Periodic checks on student seatwork with a smile and pat on the shoulder effectively reinforce good
study habit is an example of ____.
a. discrimination reinforcement
b. variable-ratio schedule
c. continuous reinforcement
d. fixed interval and variable-interval schedule
92. A person strives to work at a given task because of a need. Which of the following situations can
make a person strive to meet his needs?
a. Minimize the unpleasant consequences of student involvement.
b. Utilize your own opinion as teacher in making final decisions in the classroom.
c. Use unfamiliar materials as examples in order to initially arouse their curiosity.
d. Ask pupils to submit test questions or reactions which you can select topics.
93. Positive interdependence as an element of collaborative learning means that students must:
a. learn to depend on each other to achieve a goal
b. depend on the diligent students
c. help one another in the individual test for everyone to pass
d. be grouped heterogeneously
94. A student collapsed in her Social Studies class. It was found out that she did not her lunch. What
principle is shown in the situation?
a. psychological needs
b. physiological needs
c. somatotonic
d. safety needs
96. Which of these is the MOST important principle that a teacher should follow in initiating program
positive reinforcement?
a. Make sure the reward comes immediately after the appropriate behavior.
b. Punish negative behavior and reward positive behavior.
c. Provide regular opportunity for socially acceptable behavior.
d. Consider peer approval and recognition.
97. The theory of identical elements in learning holds that transfer is facilitated when the ____.
a. Teacher uses different teaching devices.
b. Learner has a memory of specific responses.
c. Development task easily identifies.
d. Experience is similar to the application situation.
98. A child treats his friends who are highly aggressive. The reason behind this attitude is his past
experiences with his father who is also highly aggressive. This is demonstrated on what theory?
a. Social Cognitive theory
b. Cognitive Developmental theory
c. Operant Conditioning
d. Classical Conditioning
103. An eye defect characterized by clear vision in one dimension but unfocused vision on the other is
called ___.
a. myopia
b. astigmatism
c. hyperopia
d. presbyopia
104. A six-year-old child who has a mental age of eight years has an I.Q. of
a. derived quotient
b. deviation
c. intelligence quotient or I.Q.
d. intelligence ratio
105. Who among those below asserted that “Education is for complete living”.
a. Dewey
b. Spencer
c. Kant
d. Froebel
107. William Glasser advocates the frequent use of classroom meetings, with teacher and students
sitting in a small circle. Which one of the following types of discussion would NOT be appropriate in such
a setting?
a. An educational-diagnostic conference on the learning weaknesses of individual students.
b. An open-ended meeting for the purpose of exploring and discussing student’s ideas about the
curriculum.
c. A social-problem-solving meeting to resolve teacher or student’s problems relating to the school, the
class, or any individual member.
d. A sensitivity-training meeting for the purpose of helping students ace their school-related problems
and learn how their actions can affect others.
108. According to Jones, student’s commitment to accomplishing a learning goal depends on all of the
following except:
a. how interesting the goal is
b. how likely it seems that the goal can be accomplished
c. whether the learner will be able to tell if the goal has been accomplished
d. whether materials are readily assembled for undertaking the goal
110. Robert Craig, et al, wrote of the phase of steps in every learning process. These include: 1) the
focusing of attention to the stimulation at hand, 2) the interplay of the learner and the social factors
that surround him, 3) the acquisition of a new response or behavior he gives to the new learning and 4)
retention which presupposes that the new learning is acquired.
The above paragraph emphasizes
a.the learning process
b. the steps/phase of how individuals learn
c. the manifestations of learning
d. why learning is a difficult process