Pedagogy Test 59

Total Questions: 35

1 - 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 ) A, B and C ✅

2 - The rules of training and experience for shipping and modelling of behaviour is emphasized in:

A ) Cognitive approach
B ) Behaviourist approach ✅
C ) Humanistic approach
D ) Social learning approach

3 - Gestalt is a German word which means:

A ) Whloe
B ) Configuration
C ) Total pattern
D ) A ,B and C ✅

5 - Learning in which students construct on understanding on their own is:

A ) Social learning
B ) Discovery learning ✅
C ) Insight learning
D ) Emotional learning

6 - For which of the following is Wilhelm Wundt premarily known:

A ) The establishment of the first formal laboratory for research in psychology ✅
B ) The distinction between mind and body as two separate entities
C ) The discovery of how signals are conducted along nerves in the body
D ) Tha development of the first formal program for training in psychotherapy

7 - G.Stanley Hall is notworthy in the history of psychology because he:

A ) Established the first American research laboratory in psychology
B ) Launched America's first psychological journal.
C ) Was the driving force behind the establishment of the American psychological association
D ) Did all of the above ✅

11 - Which of the following is a statement with which Skinner's followers would agree:

A ) Most behaviour is controlled by unconscious forces
B ) The goal of behaviour is self actualization
C ) Nature is more influential than nurture
D ) Free will is an illusion ✅

12 - Which of the following approaches has the most optimistic view of human nature?

A ) Humanism ✅
B ) Behaviourism
C ) Psychoanalysis
D ) Structuralism

14 - The study of the endocrine system and genetic mechanisms would most likely be undertaken by a:

A ) Clinical psychologist
B ) Physiological psychologist ✅
C ) Social psychologist
D ) Educational psychologist

15 - The fact the psychologist do not tall agree about the nature and development of personality demonstrates:

A ) That there are many ways of looking at the same phenomenon ✅
B ) The fundamental inability may simply be incomprehensible
C ) The failure of psychologists to communicate with one another
D ) The personality that personality may simply be in comprehensible

16 - A multifactorial causation approach to behaviour suggest that:

A ) Most behaviours can be explained best by single cause explanation
B ) Most behaviour is governed by a complex network of interrelated factors ✅
C ) Data must be subjected to rigorous statistical analysis in order for them to make sense
D ) Explanation of behavior tend to build up from the simple to the complex in a hierarchical manner

17 - Psychology's answer to the question of weather we are born or made tends to be:

A ) We are born
B ) We are made
C ) We are both born and made ✅
D ) Neither

18 - The reason the SQ3R method is effective is that :

A ) It breaks a Reading assignment down into manageable segments and requires understanding before you move on ✅
B ) With this method you only have to skim the reading assignment to pick out the main points
C ) It allows you to memorize and recite great quantities of material even if you don't fully understand it
D ) It requires you to read and reread your text over and over

19 - Critical thinking skills:

A ) Are abstract ability is that cannot be identified
B ) Usually developed spontaneously through normal content
C ) Usually development spontaneously without any instruction
D ) Need to be deliberately taught because they often do not develop by themselves with standard content instruction ✅

20 - 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

21 - Neurons convey information about the strength of stimuli by varying:

A ) The size of their action potential
B ) The speed of their action potential
C ) The rate at which they fire action potential ✅
D ) All of the above

22 - Alternations in activity at dopamine synapses have been implicated in the development of:

A ) Anxiety
B ) Schizophrenia ✅
C ) Alzheimer's disease
D ) Nicotine addiction

23 - Jim just barely avoided a head-on collision on a narrow road. with heart pounding, hands shaking and body perspiring, Jim organizes 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 ✅

24 - The hindbrain consists of the:

A ) Endocrine system and the limbic system
B ) Reticular formation
C ) Thalamus the hypothylamus and the cerebrum
D ) Cerebellum the medulla and the pons ✅

25 - The thalamus can be characterized as:

A ) A Regulatory mechanism
B ) The consciousness switch of the brain
C ) A relay system ✅
D ) A bridge between the two cerebral hemisphere

26 - The ____ lobe is to hearing as the occupital lobe is to vision:

A ) Frontal
B ) Temporal ✅
C ) Parietal
D ) Cerebellar

27 - The scientist who won a Nobel prize for his work with split- brain patients is:

A ) Walter canon
B ) Paul Broca
C ) Roger Sperry ✅
D ) James Olds

28 - Sound presented to the right ear are registered:

A ) Only in the right hemisphere
B ) Only in the left hemisphere
C ) More quickly in the right hemisphere
D ) Mor quickly in the left hemisphere ✅

29 - In people whose Corpus callosums have not been severed, verbal stimuli are identified more quickly and more accurately:

A ) When sent to the right hemisphere first
B ) When sent to the left hemisphere first ✅
C ) When presented to the left visual field
D ) When presented auditorally rather than visually

30 - Hormones are to the endocrine system as ____ are to the nervous system:

A ) Nerves
B ) Synapses
C ) Neurotransmitters ✅
D ) Action potentials

33 - A Spontaneous heritable change or error in DNA replication is called:

A ) Genetic drift
B ) Gene flow
C ) An adaptation
D ) A mutation ✅

34 - For which of the following assertions is the empirical evidence strongest?

A ) The two cerebral hemispheres are specialized to handle different types of cognitive tasks ✅
B ) People have a separate stream of consciousness is each hemisphere
C ) Each hemisphere has its own cognitive style
D ) Some people are right -brained while other are left+ brained