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1. According to the Cognitive Dissonance Theory of L. Festinger, the following are the ways to eliminate dissonance except:

A. change the dissonant beliefs so that they are no longer inconsistent

B. add more consonant beliefs that outweigh the dissonant beliefs

C. reduce the significance of the consonant beliefs

D. reduce the importance of the dissonant beliefs

2. The following principle does not illustrate Bruner’s constructivist view on instruction:

A. Instruction must be structured so that it can be easily grasped by the student.

B. Instruction should not be considered in the nature and pacing of rewards and punishments.

C. Instruction should be designed to facilitate extrapolation and or fill in the gaps.

D. Instruction must be concerned with the experiences and contexts that make the student willing and able to learn

3. “Learning would be exceeding laborious, not mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do.” The above statement is from:

A. Bandura

B. Thorndike

C. Wilson

D. Piaget

4. Social learning theory explains human behavior in terms of continuous reciprocal interaction between cognitive, behavioral, and environmental influences. The following process is not included in observational learning:

A. Motivation

B. Attention

C. Motor Reproduction

D. Modification

5. He describes the “zone of proximal development” or ZPD.

A. Piaget

B. Plato

C. Vygotsky

D. Bandura

6. The following are the principles behind the Conversation Theory of Pask except:

A. The subject matter should not be represented in the form of entailment structures which show what is to be learned.

B. Individual’s differ in their preferred manner of learning relationships.

C. Explicit explanation or manipulation of the subject matter facilitates understanding.

D. To learn a subject matter, students must learn the relationships among the concepts.

7. The key element in the S-R or operant conditioning theory of Skinner.

A. Punishment

B. Deprivation

C. Reinforcement

D. Motivation

8. Which of the following is not true of operant-conditioning theory?

A. Information should be presented in small amounts so that responses can be reinforced.

B. Reinforcements will generalize across similar stimuli producing secondary conditioning.

C. Behavior that is positively reinforced will reoccur; continuous reinforcement is particularly effective.

D. Negative reinforcer is any stimulus that results in the increased frequency of a response when it is withdrawn.

9. One of the following principles does not illustrate the conditions of learning theory or hierarchical theory of Gagne.

A. To obtain consistency, the specific operations that constitute instructional events are the same for each different type of learning outcome.

B. Events of learning operate on the learner in ways that constitute the conditions of learning.

C. Learning hierarchies define what intellectual skills are to be learned and a sequence of instruction.

D. Different instruction is required for different learning outcomes.

10. Knowle’s Theory of Andragogy considers the following principles except:

A. Adults are more interested in learning subjects that have immediate relevance to their job or personal life.

B. Adult learning is content-oriented rather than problem-centered.

C. Experience, including mistakes, provides the basis for learning activities.

D. Adults need to be involved in the planning and evaluation of their instruction.

Answers:


1-C  2-B  3-A  4-D  5-C  6-A  7-C  8-C  9-A  10-B

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