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  • CHAPTER-1 EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY: MEANING AND SCOPE
  • RELATIONSHIP ETWEEN PSYCHOLOGY ND EDUCATION
  • EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
  • NATURE OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
  • SCOPE OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
  • SCOPE AS DELIMITED BY EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY DIVISION:
  • CHAPTER-2 HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
  • NATURE OF GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
  • 2.2. CHARACTERISTICS OR PRINCIPLES OF GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
  • FACTORS AFFECTING GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
  • PROCESSES, PERIODS AND ASPECTS OF DEVELOPMENT
  • STAGES/PERIODS OF DEVELOPMENT
  • CHAPTER-3 COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
  • PIAGET'S WORK ON COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
  • 3.1 PIAGET'S THEORY OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
  • PIAGET'S STAGES OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
  • 3.2. EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF PIAGET'S THEORY
  • CHAPTER 4 PERSONAL AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
  • SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
  • 4.1 ERIKSON'S THEORY OF PERSONAL AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
  • EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS
  • 4.2 VYGOTSKY'S THEORY OF DEVELOPMENT
  • EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF VYGOTSKY'S THEORY
  • MORAL DEVELOPMENT
  • 4.3. KOHLBERG THEORY OF MORAL DEVELOPMENT
  • Applying Theory in Classroom Encouraging Moral Development
  • CHAPTER-5 INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
  • Factors responsible for Individual Differences
  • AREAS OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
  • STEPS TO MEET INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES:
  • CHAPTER-6 LEARNING
  • 6.2 BEHAVIORAL APPROACHES TO LEARNING
  • 6.3 SOCIAL COGNITIVE APPROACHES TO LEARNING
  • TEACHING STRATEGIES FOR EFFECTIVELY USING OBSERVATIONAL LEARNING
  • 6.4 COGNITIVE APPROACH OR THE INFORMATION PROCESSING APPROACH
  • SIEGLER'S VIEW
  • CHAPTER-7 MOTIVATION DEFINITIONS
  • MOTIVATION TYPES
  • MOTIVATION THEORIES
  • CONDITIONS FOR PROMOTING MOTIVATION
  • IMPORTANCE OF MOTIVATION IN LEARNING
  • CLASS-ROOM INCENTIVES TO MOTIVATION
  • GENERAL APPROACHES TO MOTIVATION
  • 7.2 HUMANISTIC APPROACHES TO MOTIVATION:
  • 7.3 COGNITIVE APPROACHES TO MOTIVATION
  • 7.4 SOCIOCULTURAL VIEWS OF MOTIVATION
  • CHAPTER -8 MANAGING THE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
  • 8.2. CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT ANDDISCIPLINE
  • 8.3 DEALING WITH MANAGEMENT PROBLEM
  • 8.4 PLANNING: KEY TO PREVENTING MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS
  • CHAPTER-9 PREVENTING PROBLEM
  • 9.2 STUDENT CHARACTERISTICS
  • 9.2.1 SUCCESSFUL STUDENT CHARACTERISTICS
  • 9.2.2 STUDENT LEARNING CHARACTERISTICS
  • 9.3 PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE CLASSROOM
  • 9.3.1 CLASSROOM ARRANGEMENT PRINCIPLES
  • 9.4 BEGINNING OF SCHOOL YEAR
  • 9.5 ESSENTIAL MANAGEMENT SKILLS
  • The word "Psychology" is a combination of two words, that are "psyche" which means soul and "logos" which means study or science, these two words are derived from?
  • Initially it was said that the psychology is the study of?
  • In the middle period it was said that the psychology is the study of?
  • Now it is said that Psychology is the systematic study of?
  • It is the systematic study of educational growth and development of a child, this definition of educational psychology has been defined by?
  • It deals with the behavior of human beings in educational situation, this definition of educational psychology has been given by?
  • Wilhelm Wundt (1832–1920) of Germany and E.B. Titchener are belong to?
  • The father of American Psychology is considered to?
  • William James is belong to?
  • The mind to be a recent development, still is an evolutionary phase, the function of which is to aid man's adjustment to his environment, according to?
  • J.B. Watson, Ivan Pavlov, Lashley, Tolman, Hull and Skinner are belong to?
  • A school of thought of Psychology which gives its total attention on observable actions is?
  • Wertheimer, Koffka, Kohler and Kurt Lewin are belong to?
  • Famous Psychologist Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) is belong to?
  • Psychological new ideas like Consciousness, Subconsciousness and Unconsciousness were presented by?
  • The concepts like repression and catharsis, psycho sexual development, sex as an urge responsible for all types of behaviour, were presented by?
  • Maslow, Rogers, Combs and Gordon Allport are belong to?
  • Free will, freedom of choice and man's search for unique goals and values to guide his behaviour are characteristics of?
  • ______ deals with what we think and how we feel in our altered states of awareness?
  • The process by which a germinating seed or conceived organism turns into a mature plant or full-fledged organism is called?
  • Increase in cell size and number that takes place during the life history of an organism is called?
  • Development is a both qualitative and quantitative process while growth is a just process?
  • The type of development in which we study how we behave with others is called?
  • The development in which a man gets the ability about the right or wrong is called?
  • Development of a child may be distributed into two portions that are prenatal stage and?
  • Prenatal stage starts from conception to?
  • Infancy starts from birth and ends to?
  • The third stage of development is?
  • Childhood starts from 3 years and ends to?
  • The fourth stage of the development is?
  • The Adolescence starts from 13 years and ends to?
  • The fifth stage of the child development is?
  • Adulthood starts from 20 years and ends to?
  • The fifth and final stage of development is?
  • Old age starts from 65 years and ends to?
  • Logical and sequential pattern from conception to death are called?
  • Development involves a movement from whole to parts and parts to whole, this principle is called?
  • Cephalocaudal and proximodistal tendencies is a principle of development which means?
  • ______ is a stirred up state of an organism which appears to the individual himself?
  • "Emotion is an affective experience that undergoes during an instinctive excitement" this definition of emotion has been defined by?
  • There are types of motivation?
  • There are two types of motivation first is positive which is called intrinsic motivation and second is negative motivation which is called?
  • Love, amusement and curiosity etc. are the types of?
  • Jealousy, amusement, anger and fear etc. are the examples of?
  • Emotions harmful for normal development of an individual are called?
  • Center of nervous system of human body?
  • There are lobes of heart?
  • Intellect, behaviour, abstract thought process, problem solving, creative thoughts, attention, judgment, some eye movement, muscle movement, libido (sexual urge) these are related to?
  • Vision, recognition and reading are related to?
  • Auditory memories, visual memories, other memory, music, some hearing, some vision pathways, fear, some language, some speech, some behaviour, emotions, and sense of identity these are related to?
  • Sense of touch, sense of taste, sense of smell, sensory and spatial awareness, eye-hand coordination and arm movement are related to?
  • It controls the left side of the body, temporal and spatial relationships, analyzing nonverbal information and communication emotion?
  • It controls the right side of the body, produce and understand language?
  • It arranges communication between the left and right sides of the brain?
  • Jean Piaget, a famous psychologist (1896–1980), was born in?
  • Jean Piaget presented the theory of development?
  • The concepts of assimilation and accommodation were presented by?
  • These are the biological changes that are genetically programmed in each human being at conception?
  • These are the basic building blocks of thinking?
  • When a man uses his existing schemes to make sense of events in his world, it is called?
  • When a person must change his existing schemes to respond a new situation, it is called?
  • The theory of cognitive development theory of Piaget has stages?
  • The first stage of Piaget's development theory is?
  • Sensorimotor stage starts at birth and ends at?
  • Child explores the world through senses rather than mental process in?
  • The second stage of the cognitive development theory of Piaget is?
  • Preoperational stage starts at 2 years and ends at?
  • Symbolic functioning, centration, intuitive thoughts, egocentric, inability to conserve and imitating are the characteristics of?
  • The third stage of cognitive development theory of Piaget is?
  • The intellectual functioning takes a very sophisticated shape in?
  • The child starts thinking logically in?
  • The intellectual development and functioning takes a very sophisticated shape at this stage?
  • Vygotsky who was born in 1896 and died in?
  • Vygotsky presented the development theory?
  • Vygotsky strongly emphasized on historical cultural and ______ factors in cognition?
  • According to Vygotsky, the specific knowledge gained by the child through the interactions also presented the shared knowledge of a culture, is called?
  • A language is a dynamic set of?
  • It involves the rules about the structure and the sequence of the speech sounds?
  • Consists of vocabulary and how concepts are expressed through words is called?
  • The rules in which words are arranged into sentences are called?
  • It is the use of grammatical markers?
  • It involves the rules for appropriate and effective communication?
  • The child begins word learning at the age of?
  • Who was an American psychologist presented the theory of?
  • Urie Bronfenbrenner was born on April 29, 1917 and died on?
  • Study of relationships and interactions between living organisms and their natural or developed environment is called?
  • Bronfenbrenner's theory was based on?
  • The first system of Bronfenbrenner's theory is?
  • The second system of Bronfenbrenner's theory is?
  • The third system of Bronfenbrenner's theory is?
  • The fourth system of Bronfenbrenner's theory is?
  • The fifth system of Bronfenbrenner's theory is?
  • The larger cultural context like eastern vs western is related to?
  • Erikson presented development theory?
  • The first stage Infant, is called?
  • The fifth stage adolescence is called?
  • Something which prompts, compels and energizes an individual to act or behave in a particular manner at a particular time for attaining some specific goals is called?
  • McDougall presented the theory of?
  • Sigmund Freud presented the theory of?
  • Adler presented the theory of?
  • Maslow presented the theory of?
  • Factors effecting motivation are mainly categorized as biological and factors?
  • Survival, existence and physical contacts are the factors?
  • Independence, security, love and affection and achievements etc are the factors?
  • A permanent change in behaviour is called?
  • Transferring of knowledge from one place to another place is called?
  • It is an act of strengthening behaviour?
  • It is a something positive reinforcement that follows a desired and acts to encourage desired behaviour?
  • The style in which the students are not involved in the instruction?
  • The acquisition of verbal behaviour is called?
  • Acquisition of skills like swimming, riding a horse, driving a car, flying plane, playing the piano, drawing a geometrical design etc is?
  • The mental image denotes a generalized idea about thing or person is?
  • A style of learning in which the students are involved in the instructions is called?
  • The learning requires the use of cognitive abilities?
  • It is a learning situation in which the learning is presented with learning material?
  • Learning tasks are presented in such a way that they may be learned by reason of their associations?
  • Classical conditioning was presented by?
  • I.P. Pavlov whose period is 1849 to 1936 was a?
  • When the two things occur together, the appearance of one will bring the other to mind, it is called?
  • Operant conditioning was presented by?
  • B.F Skinner whose period is 1904 to 1990 was belong to?
  • Bruner a USA psychologist presented the theory of?
  • The first step of Bruner's theory is?
  • The second step of Bruner's theory of discovery learning is?
  • The third step of Bruner's theory of discovery learning is?
  • The fourth step of Bruner's theory is?
  • Bandura presented the theory of?
  • Bandura presented steps of learning in his social learning theory?
  • Attending to and perceiving the behaviour is the step of Bandura's theory?
  • Remembering the behaviour is the step of Bandura's theory?
  • Converting the memory into actions is the step of Bandura's theory?
  • Reinforcement of the individual behaviour is the step of Bandura's theory?
  • The ability to solve problems or to adjust in the new environment is the definition of?
  • Life of an individual starts from?
  • How many factors effect growth?
  • Growth of an individual is studied in?
  • Sensor abilities are studied in?
  • Period starting from Zygote to 250-300 days is called?
  • Period starting from birth to two weeks is called?
  • Period starting from 13 years to 19 years is called?
  • Which is not the heredity factor?
  • Cognitive development deals with?
  • Whose role is important in moral development?
  • Stimulus is necessary for response in?
  • Change in behaviour is due to reinforcement in?
  • Concept of meaningful learning through perception was presented by?
  • Concept of meaningful learning through structure content and discovery was presented by?
  • The founder of Humanistic Approach is?
  • According to humanistic approach, nature of man is?
  • The founder of client centered therapy was?
  • According to Roger, in problem solving the most important is?
  • Who did discriminate the personality characteristics or traits?
  • The I.Q of an average child is?
  • The I.Q of mentally retarded child is?
  • Which type of growth of child is important?
  • Who says "Man is a conscious animal"?
  • Development means change in?
  • I.Q stands for?
  • Stern formula to determine I.Q is?
  • The formula to determine I.Q is given by?
  • Guidance in education started in?
  • Who is considered the father of guidance?
  • First intelligence test was developed in?
  • Who developed the first intelligence test?
  • Guidance is helpful in?
  • Face to face relationship in which one tries to solve the problem of the other is called?
  • The I.Q of the gifted children is?
  • Cognitive learning theory is known as?
  • Laws of learning were founded by?
  • Founder of the intelligence test was?
  • The name of the psychologist who said that most of the fears of human beings are conditionally learned?
  • Carl Roger presented?
  • Law of learning associated with Reinforcement in Operant Conditioning is?
  • Interests, attitudes, appreciation, skills and achievements are the primarily product of?
  • The ability to think in novel and unusual ways is called?
  • Which is basic born emotion?
  • Model of eight types of learning was designed by?
  • The process of helping individual make life adjustment at home, school and other phases of life is called?
  • Hierarchy of needs was presented by?
  • The pioneer of identifying individual differences was?
  • The learning method that is associated with observing behaviour of others is called?
  • Which is the basic born emotion?
  • Who is considered the first psychologist in history?
  • Founder of Socio psychological development was?
  • Which is not the type of memory?
  • Perception and attention play a major role in?
  • Experiments on learning by insight were performed by?
  • Semantic memory is?
  • Trial and error theory was presented by?
  • Pavlov’s work was with?
  • Learning by insight theory is also called as?
  • Stimulus plays a dominant role according to?
  • Response plays a dominant role according to?
  • Projective techniques are used to measure?
  • Cause of frustration is?
  • The word "emotion" is derived from the Latin word?
  • "Emovere" means?
  • The word "moral" is derived from Latin?
  • "Mos" means?
  • Theory of moral development was presented by?
  • Hierarchy of needs was presented by?
  • Alfred Binet worked on?
  • Stimulus that strengthens the response of an organism is?
  • According to Maslow, the most important are?
  • Physical growth is affected by?
  • Educational psychology is the branch of?
  • The discipline of psychology is started from?
  • A need is to food as a motive is to?
  • A need is to hunger as a stimulus is to?
  • Motivation is best defined in term of?
  • Belonging, affection and status are best classified as?
  • At birth, an average weight of a full term baby is?
  • At birth, which of the following is closest to its final adult level?
  • Emotional response to symbolic stimuli is primarily the result of?
  • The first emotional expression to appear in infants is?
  • The best known study on social development is that of?
  • The most fundamental agency in the life of boys and girls is?
  • The mental development is closely parallel to increase in?
  • Intelligence as presently defined is synonymous with?
  • Which is measured by intelligence?
  • Intelligence test measures?
  • Asad is bright, Karim is dull, they are now six years of age, as they grow older, the difference in their I.Q will probably?
  • Mental age of a child is a measure of?
  • I.Q is an index of?
  • What type of health of a child is utmost important that an elementary school teacher should keep in mind for the growth of the child?
  • When do we learn better according to Thorndike's law of practice?
  • The subject matter of educational psychology is inferred from?
  • The age measured by an intelligence test is called?
  • WAIS is the intelligence test for?
  • The growth and learning of a child is affected by?
  • Identical twins are not identical in?
  • I.Q of 7 years old child with an M.A of 8 years would be placed in I.Q distribution table as?
  • The central concept in Freud’s psychoanalytical theory is?
  • Moral development involves?
  • Those relatively stable and permanent aspects of individuals which make them unique but which also allow people to be compared with each other define?
  • An individual who is socially moral adjusted develops behaviour?
  • Educational psychology revolves around three areas, the learner, the learning process and?
  • The term growth is used in purely ____ sense?
  • Try to understand something new by fitting it into what is already known is?
  • Wechsler Scale is a test to measure?
  • The process in which human organism becomes favoured related to the environment is called?
  • The learner and learning theories are studied in?
  • Psychologists define heredity as transfer of characteristics to newborns from their?
  • The characteristics of an object stays the same even though the object might change in appearance?
  • The state when a person realizes that his or her current ways of thinking are not enough to understand a situation is?
  • Assuming that others experience the world the way you do is?
  • A search for mental balance between cognitive schemes and information from the environment is called?
  • Basic structure or framework that exists in a person’s mind to organize and interpret information is called?
  • The ability to use symbols to represent actions or objects is called?
  • Arranging objects in sequence according to one aspect is called?
  • Focusing on only one characteristic is?
  • The ability to logically combine relations to understand certain conclusions is called?
  • Phase at which a child can master a task if given appropriate help and support is called?
  • A sense of concern for future generations is called?
  • The complex answer to the question "Who am I?" is?
  • Willingness to begin new activities and explore new directions is called?
  • A technique that involves changing the level of support for learning is called?
  • The value that one places on one’s characteristics, abilities or behaviour is called?
  • Learning in which a neutral stimulus becomes associated with a meaningful stimulus and acquires the capacity to elicit a similar response is called?
  • A general approach that views learning as an active mental process of acquiring, remembering and using knowledge is called?
  • Approach to motivation that emphasized personal freedom, choice, self determination and striving for personal growth is called?
  • Motivation associated with activities that are their own reward is?
  • Approach of psychology that focuses on the analysis of components of consciousness is called?
  • An individual perceives the things as a whole and not as a mere collection of its constituents is called?
  • What we think and how we feel in our altered states of awareness is the subject area of?
  • McDougall maintained that human behaviour could be explained in terms of some?
  • Main instinct picked up by Freud to account all human behaviour in his psychoanalytical theory of motivation is?
  • Clark Hull, through his drive reduction theory emphasized that in the form of stimulation gives birth to a drive motive which in turn produces motivation?
  • Language is a source of?
  • The roles of training and experiences for shaping and modeling of behaviour is emphasized in?
  • Learning in which students construct an understanding on their own is?
  • For which of the following is Wilhelm Wundt primarily known?
  • Which of the following is a statement with which Skinner's followers would agree?
  • Which of the following approaches has the most optimistic view of human nature?
  • The reason, the SQ3R method is effective is that?
  • According to Miller, the capacity of short-term memory is?
  • Jean Piaget, a famous psychologist (1896–1980), was born in?
  • Area of classroom where the greatest amount of interaction takes place is called

According to Miller, the capacity of short-term memory is?

According to Miller, the capacity of short-term memory is?
(a) About 50,000 words
(b) Unlimited
(c) About 25 stimuli
(d) About 7 chunks of information
✅ Answer: (d) About 7 chunks of information
Explanation: Miller’s law states short-term memory can hold about 7 ± 2 chunks of information at one time.

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