Pedagogy MCQs for SST – PKMCQ: Prepare for SST (Secondary School Teacher) exams with Pedagogy MCQs. Useful for FPSC, PPSC, NTS, KPPSC, SPSC, BPSC, and ETEA exams.
341. In childhood, an individual's behavior is most influenced by ………
a) Community
b) School
c) Peer Group
d) Family ✅
342. Law of effect in learning was started by ………
a) Pavlov
b) Thorndike ✅
c) Skinner
d) Gestalt
343. Explained the learner’s state of willingness participates in the learning process is called ………
a) Law of Readiness ✅
b) Law of recency
c) Law of exercise
344. Which law of learning states that learning when often repeated is best retained?
a) Law of Readiness
b) Law of Exercise ✅
c) Law of recency
345. That the things most recently learned are best remembered refers to ………
a) Law of intensity
b) Law of effect
c) Law of primacy
d) Law of recency ✅
346. Which law of learning is also called the law of use and disuse?
a) Law of exercise ✅
b) Law of readiness
c) Law of effect
347. Which of the following is an important schedule of reinforcement?
a) Continuous
b) Fixed interval
c) Fixed ratio
d) All of the above ✅
348. Classical conditioning was first investigated by ………
a) B.F Skinner
b) Gestalt
c) Pavlov ✅
d) Thorndike
349. Pavlov is famous for his work in ………
a) Contingent conditioning by operant conditioning
b) Classical conditioning ✅
c) Oppositional conditioning
350. You are online one evening when an advert appears showing your favorite movie star wearing a new brand of sunglasses. The advertiser hopes that your positive feelings toward the movie star will make you want the sunglasses. In this situation, the sunglasses would be the:
a) US
b) UR
c) CS ✅
d) CR
351) People who have a lot of dental problems often come to dislike even the smell of their dentist's office. The smell represents a(n):
a) US
b) UR
c) CS ✅
d) CR
352) In classical conditioning, US stands for:
a) Unintentional stimulus
b) Unconditioned stimulus ✅
c) Unconnected stimulus
d) None of the above
353) Which of these is an unconditioned stimulus?
a) Shock
b) Food
c) Loud noise
d) All of these ✅
354) Which of these is an unconditioned response?
a) Salivation
b) Blink
c) Seeing the meat
d) All of these ✅
355) When the onset of CS (Conditioned stimulus) and US (Unconditioned stimulus) are simultaneous, it is called:
a) Delayed conditioning
b) Simultaneous conditioning ✅
c) Trace conditioning
d) None of these
356) After conditioning, salivation started to occur in the presence of the sound of a bell, the bell becomes a...
a) Conditioned stimulus ✅
b) Only stimuli
c) Unconditioned stimuli
d) None of these
357) What term is applied to the random reappearance of a behavior after extinction?
a) Reconditioning
b) Generalization
c) Spontaneous recovery ✅
d) Operant conditioning
358) In Pavlov’s Dog experiment, which of these is the conditioned stimulus?
a) Food
b) Bell ✅
c) Re-enforcement
d) None of these
359) B.F. Skinner’s theory of learning through the consequences of our behavior is called...
a) Classical conditioning
b) Operant conditioning ✅
c) Modeling
d) Positive reinforcement
360) Skinner (1938) drew which distinction?
a) Operant and respondent behavior ✅
b) Cognition and emotion
361) … means disappearance of learned response due to removal of reinforcement from the situation in which the response used to occur.
a) Generalization
b) Discrimination
c) Extinction ✅
d) None of the above
362) The sudden appearance of a response after a period of extinction is known as…
a) Stimulus generalization
b) Extinction
c) Stimulus discrimination
d) Spontaneous recovery ✅
363) … conditioning was first investigated by
a) B.F. Skinner
b) Operant ✅
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
364) In operant conditioning procedure, the role of reinforcement is...
a) Strikingly significant ✅
b) Very insignificant
c) Not necessary
d) None of these
365) The simplest kind of learning is called...
a) Modeling
b) Observational learning
c) Conditioning ✅
d) Concept learning
366) Which of the following is an important schedule of reinforcement?
a) Continuous
b) Fixed interval
c) Fixed Ratio
d) All of the above ✅
367) The behavior of children can easily be modified and shaped through the use of...
a) Classical conditioning
b) Operant conditioning ✅
c) Verbal conditioning
d) Concept Learning
368) Observational learning is also called...
a) Social Learning
b) Modeling ✅
c) Imitation
d) All of the above
369) … is anything that increases behavior.
a) Punishment
b) Reinforce ✅
c) Response
d) Negative punishment
370) … schedules of reinforcement are based on number of responses while … schedules of reinforcement are based on elapsed time.
a) Fixed, variable
b) Variable, fixed
c) Internal, ratio
d) Ratio, interval ✅
371) Removal of something pleasant is...
a) Positive reinforcement
b) Negative reinforcement
c) Negative punishment ✅
d) Positive punishment
372) To provide reinforcement after a set number of responses is...
a) Variable ratio
b) Fixed ratio ✅
c) Variable interval
d) Fixed interval
373) Variable ratio provides in operant conditioning:
a) Reinforcement after set number of trials
b) Reinforcement after acquisition
c) Reinforcement after a random number of responses ✅
d) All of these
374) If we reinforce the desired response every time it occurs, we are using:
a) Continuous reinforcement ✅
b) Incremental reinforcement
c) Intermittent reinforcement
d) None of these
375) Taking away a child’s toys after she has hit her brother (to stop her hitting him again) is an example of:
a) Positive punishment
b) Negative punishment ✅
c) Vindictive conditioning
d) Observational learning
376) According to the behaviorist school, … plays no role in learning.
a) Experience
b) Nature ✅
c) Nurture
d) Punishment
377) Giving a student extra homework after they misbehave in class is an example of:
a) Positive punishment ✅
b) Negative punishment
c) Positive reinforcement
d) Negative reinforcement
378) Which of the following phrases best sums up the law of effect:
a) Think before you act
b) If you can’t beat them, join them
c) If it works, repeat it ✅
d) Measure twice, cut once
379) Positive reinforcement … the likelihood of a behavior, and negative reinforcement … the likelihood of a behavior.
a) Increases, increases ✅
b) Decreases, decreases
c) Increases, decreases
d) Decreases, increases
380) A bakery gives customers a free pastry after every 6 pastry purchases. This is an example of what kind of reinforcement schedule?
a) Fixed interval
b) Fixed ratio ✅
c) Variable interval
d) Variable Piage
381) A researcher trains a dog to salivate to the sound of a bell. Then he turns the lights on just before he sounds the bell. If he continues to do this until the dog starts to salivate as soon as the lights go on, he has demonstrated:
a) Latent learning
b) Insight
c) Second-order conditioning ✅
d) Extinction
382) An intermittent schedule of reinforcement that reinforces behavior after an average, but unpredictable, amount of time has passed is called … schedule.
a) Fixed ratio
b) Variable ratio
c) Fixed interval
d) Variable interval ✅
383) Food is to … reinforcer as money is to … reinforcer.
a) Positive, negative
b) Negative, positive
c) Primary, secondary ✅
d) Secondary, primary
384) To encourage children to enjoy arithmetic, you should:
a) Punish them when they make a mistake
b) Praise them every time they get an answer right
c) Sometimes surprise them with a reward when they get an answer right ✅
d) Ignore them
385) Taking away a person’s car after they have been caught speeding would be an example of:
a) Positive punishment
b) Negative punishment ✅
c) Positive reinforcement
d) Negative reinforcement
386) Insight learning was proposed by…
a) Edward C. Toman
b) Kurt Lewin
c) Max Wertheimer
d) Wolfgang Kohler ✅
387) Gestalt psychology is a German school founded by...
a) R.H Wheeler
b) Max Wertheimer
c) Wolfgang Kohler ✅
d) None of these
388) The “insight theory of learning” is promoted by … Gestalt.
a) Gestalt theorists ✅
b) Pavlov
c) Jean Piaget
d) Vygotsky
389) An individual perceives the situation as a whole and after seeing and evaluating the different relationships takes the proper decision, for this Gestalt psychology used the term:
a) Introspection
b) Insight ✅
c) Observation
d) Decision Making
390) Kohler placed a chimpanzee named … in his insight learning experiment.
a) Numer
b) Doli
c) Sultan ✅
d) Chimpi
391) Gestalt provided a scientific and progressive method of problem solving based on due emphasis on:
a) Heredity in an individual
b) Past experiences of the learner
c) Environment in which a person lives
d) Cognitive abilities of the learner ✅
392) The first step in insight learning theory is…
a) Using insight
b) Solution
c) Organizing their perceptual field
d) Identify the problem ✅
393) Who said “sound mind in a sound body”?
a) Newton
b) Plato ✅
c) Aristotle
d) Rousseau
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