Neurons convey information about the strength of stimuli by varying:
Correct answer is: C. The rate at which they fire action potentials
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Educational Psychology MCQS
Here are Educational Psychology MCQS that covers psychology, schools of psychology theories of cognitive developments and learning and motivation theories
Gestalt is a German word which means:
Correct answer is: D. All
Gestalt means whole, configuration, and total pattern.
Alterations in activity at dopamine synapses have been implicated in the development of:
Correct answer is: B. Schizophrenia
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What we think and feel in altered states of awareness is:
Correct answer is: B. Transpersonal Psychology
Transpersonal Psychology studies altered states of awareness.
Bandura’s social learning theory emphasizes that most of what we learn is acquired through:
Correct answer is: D. All
Bandura’s theory highlights learning through observation and imitation.
Jim just barely avoided a head-on collision on a narrow road. With heart pounding, hands shaking, and body perspiring, Jim recognizes that these are signs of the body’s fight or flight response, which is controlled by the:
Correct answer is: D. Sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system
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Bronfenbrenner’s theory consists of environmental systems:
Correct answer is: C. 5
Bronfenbrenner’s theory outlines five environmental systems.
Learning in which students construct an understanding on their own is:
Correct answer is: B. Discovery learning
Discovery learning involves students constructing knowledge themselves.
A setting in which the individual spends considerable time is:
Correct answer is: A. Microsystem
The microsystem involves the environments an individual frequently interacts with.
Wilhelm Wundt is primarily known for:
Correct answer is: A. The establishment of the first formal laboratory for psychology research
Wundt established the first psychology research lab.
Bronfenbrenner’s theory emphasizes:
Correct answer is: C. Both
The theory includes both micro and macro dimensions of environments.
G. Stanley Hall is noteworthy because he:
Correct answer is: D. All
Hall established the first lab, journal, and founded the APA.
The scientist who won a Nobel prize for his work with split-brain patients is:
Correct answer is: B. Paul Broca
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McDougall maintained that all human behavior could be explained in terms of some:
Correct answer is: A. Instinct
McDougall's theory emphasizes instincts driving behavior.
Which of the following is a statement with which Skinner’s followers would agree:
Correct answer is: D. Free will is an illusion
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Sounds presented to the right ear are registered:
Correct answer is: C. More quickly in the right hemisphere
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Main instinct in Freud’s psychoanalytical theory is:
Correct answer is: C. Both
Freud’s theory highlights life and death instincts.
Which of the following approaches has the most optimistic view of human nature?
Correct answer is: A. Humanism
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In people whose corpus callosums have not been severed, verbal stimuli are identified more quickly and more accurately:
Correct answer is: D. When presented auditorily rather than visually
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Human behavior is motivated primarily by social urges in Adler’s theory:
Correct answer is: D. Adler’s Theory
Adler’s Theory emphasizes social urges and the security motive.
The tendency to view one’s own group as superior to others and as the standard for judging the worth of foreign ways is known as:
Correct answer is: B. Ethnocentrism
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Hormones are to the endocrine system as _____ are to the nervous system:
Correct answer is: B. Synapses
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The ability to logically combine relations to understand certain conclusions is:
Correct answer is: B. Transitivity
Transitivity refers to logically combining relations to draw conclusions.