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Approaches to Learning -Educational Psychology

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 11mins

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Class
Date
1.

Overwhelming stress or trauma can cause an innate psychological negative mental state of passiveness or ‘give up mentality’ .This is called.......

a)

Constructivism

b)

Behaviourism

c)

Learned Helplesnesss

2.

I failed the maths test because I am not smart is why type of explanatory style

a)

Pessimistic explanatory style

b)

Optimistic Explanatory Style

3.

Teaching/empowering students with the ability to balance out negative and positive things in situations, circumstances and responses to their peers is called

a)

Learned Optimism

b)

Realistic Optimism

4.

Learned Optimism is.....

a)

The process of recognizing and challenging pessimistic thoughts in order to develop more positive behaviors.

b)

Teaching/empowering students with the ability to balance out negative and positive things in situations

5.

Which one below is an intervention used in classroom to help students overcome learned helplessness

a)

Positive reframing

b)

Positive reinforcers

c)

Unconditioned responses

d)

Neutral stimulus

6.

It emphasizes the importance of observing, modelling, and imitating the behaviours, attitudes, and emotional reactions of others.

a)

Operant Conditioning

b)

Classical Conditioning

c)

Social Learning

d)

Positive reinforcers

7.

Who found Social Learning?

a)

B.F.Skinner

b)

Ivan Pavlov

c)

Albert Bandura

d)

Carl Rogers

8.

Which one below is principle of Social Learning...

a)

Learning is an active process

b)

Unconditioned stimulus elicits an unconditioned response

c)

Reciprocal Determinism

9.

The teacher praised Mary for her good manners when she said thank you when she gave her the pencil she asked for publicly, as a result, all the other students in the class decided to say 'thank you' when the teacher gave them the pencil. This is called what type of reinforcement in social learning.

a)

Direct reinforcement

b)

Vicarious Reinforcement

10.

When there is no direct interaction between learners and models in this mode. Instead, learners imitate behaviour from various representations in media, such as books, films, and games. This called

a)

Live Modelling

b)

Verbal instructions

c)

Symbolic modelling

11.

What is a Schema?

a)

Social reinforcer

b)

Direct Reinforcement

c)

Classical Conditioning

d)

Mental frameworks stored in our long-term memory. They help the brain make sense of the world by organizing information.

12.

Refers to using newly acquired information to revise and redevelop an existing schema.

a)

Positive reinforcement

b)

Negative reinforcement

c)

Congruence

d)

Accommodation

13.

Identify below which statement best describes a constructivism classroom.

a)

Learning is based on repetition

b)

Knowledge is seen as inert

c)

Students work primarily in groups

d)

Assessment is through testing and correct answers

14.

This learning theory argues that human brain has a limited capacity for processing information at any given time.

a)

Classical Conditioning

b)

Cognitive overload theory

15.

Which one below is type of Cognitive Overload

a)

Bottom-Up & Top Down

b)

Right-way & Left way

c)

Extraneous Load

d)

In triangle

16.

Which type of cognitive overload is harmful because it does not contribute to learning

a)

Extraneous Load

b)

Germane Load

17.

Discovery learning falls under which one below

a)

Cognitive Constructivism

b)

Social Constructivism

18.

An approach to learning that holds that students actively construct or make their own knowledge and that reality is determined by the experiences of the learner is called

a)

Classical conditioning

b)

Operant Conditioning

c)

Humanism

d)

Constructivism

19.

The process of learning by which students learn by doing is called.....

a)

Humanism

b)

Behaviorism

c)

Experiential Learning

d)

Positive reinforcement

20.

What is name of educational psychologist who founded the ZPD learning concept

(a)