The other main assumption is that education is a_____________activity and that educational research is to promote human development on the widest possible scale:

Related Mcqs:

1. According to____”Educational Psychology heals with the behavior of human beings in educational situation’.

   A. Skinner Charles E.
   B. Judd’s
   C. Walter B. Kolesnik
   D. Peel

2. Educational psychology, as an area of psychological study, is exerting a powerful influence upon the formulation of educational objectives, the construction of school curriculums, and the organization of______procedures:

   A. Knowledge-selecting
   B. Teaching-experience
   C. Knowledge-development
   D. Teaching-learning

3. __________________ enquiry is based on the assumption that it is not possible to have a disinterested unbiased approach, but that any researcher has a preconceived and interested value base for his work:

   A. Active general
   B. Active bases
   C. Active interest
   D. Active development

4. Select the TWO correct statements from those below with regard to psychological research:
   1.You can fully understand the result of an IQ test without knowing anything about intelligence testing and standard scores.
   2. if two things are correlated this signifies that one is the cause of the other.
   3. A good knowledge of psychological research methods allows you to avoid making the mistakes that journalists politicians and many others make because they lack the necessary conceptual understanding.
   4. In most countries, in order to become a psychologist, you will be required to conduct a piece of psychological research.

   A. 1 & 2
   B. 2 & 3
   C. 1 & 4
   D. 3 & 4

5. The famous book ‘Educational Psychology and teacher Education’ is authored by:

   A. G.L. Anderson
   B. Skinner
   C. P.A. Haul
   D. None of these

6. Which enquiry is relative newcomer in the field of educational research, has a more general modus operandi?

   A. active approach enquiry
   B. active research enquiry
   C. active quality enquiry
   D. active specific enquiry

7. In order to understand the unusual behavior of an adult client, a clinical psychologist has carefully investigated the client’s current life situation and his physical, social-cultural, educational history which research method has the psychologist employed?

   A. the case study
   B. the survey
   C. naturalistic observation
   D. correlational research

8. An excellent paper by Campbell and Stanley__________outlines the designs for educational research using this style and the following one of conceptual inquiry:

   A. 1955
   B. 1958
   C. 1963
   D. 1961

9. While considerable research suggests that human’s exhibit relatively poor reasoning ability what reasons have been given to be critical of this research?

   A. Rationality is not absolute
   B. Experiments lack ecological validity
   C. Satisficing responses are rational responses
   D. People have limited time and data available
   E. All of the above

10. ______motivation theory with its assumption of two basic instincts-sex and aggression and the view of development in terms of their evolution:

    A. Binet
    B. Freud’s
    C. Charles DE
    D. None of these