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Educational Psychology

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

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The process in which human organism becomes favoured related to the environment is called?

The process in which human organism becomes favoured related to the environment is called?

The process in which human organism becomes favoured related to the environment is called?
(a) Adjustment
(b) Consciousness
(c) Behaviour
(d) Creativity
✅ Answer: (a) Adjustment
Explanation: Adjustment is the process through which an individual adapts to changes in the environment to maintain balance and survival.

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