Pedagogy MCQS

The characteristics of language development at the age of 2 years:

A. Vocabulary rapidly increases
B. Use of past tense
C. Use of some prepositions
D. All
Correct answer is: D. All
At age 2, vocabulary, tense usage, and prepositions develop.

A neural impulse is initiated when a neuron’s charge momentarily becomes less negative, or even positive. This event is called:

A. An action potential
B. A resting potential
C. Impulse facilitation
D. Inhibitory
Correct answer is: A. An action potential
NA

The roles of training and experiences for behavior shaping are emphasized in:

A. Cognitive approach
B. Behaviorist approach
C. Humanistic approach
D. Social learning approach
Correct answer is: B. Behaviorist approach
The behaviorist approach emphasizes training and experience.

Neurons convey information about the strength of stimuli by varying:

A. The size of their action potentials
B. The speed of their action potentials
C. The rate at which they fire action potentials
D. All of the above
Correct answer is: C. The rate at which they fire action potentials
NA

Gestalt is a German word which means:

A. Whole
B. Configuration
C. Total pattern
D. All
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:

A. Anxiety
B. Schizophrenia
C. Alzheimer’s disease
D. Nicotine addiction
Correct answer is: B. Schizophrenia
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What we think and feel in altered states of awareness is:

A. Humanistic Psychology
B. Transpersonal Psychology
C. Gestalt Psychology
D. Cognitive Psychology
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:

A. Observing
B. Experimenting
C. Imitating
D. All
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:

A. Empathetic division of the peripheral nervous system
B. Parasympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system
C. Somatic division of the peripheral nervous system
D. Sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system
Correct answer is: D. Sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system
NA

Bronfenbrenner’s theory consists of environmental systems:

A. 3
B. 4
C. 5
D. 6
Correct answer is: C. 5
Bronfenbrenner’s theory outlines five environmental systems.
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