PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION DRILL

With Answers
1. According to Erikson, identity and role confusion occurs during
A. Elementary Years
●B. High school years

2. According to Jerome Bruner, learning is a simultaneous process of acquisition, transformation

and_______________.
●A. Evaluation
B. Question

3. Who among the following developed the Social Learning Theory?

●A. Bandura
B. Kohlberg

4. When a teacher present a morally ambiguous situation to his students and ask them what to do,
the teacher’s technique is based on the theory of?
●A. Kohlberg
B. Piaget

5. According to Maslow, the highest of the need in the Hierarchy of Needs theory is
A. Psychological need
●B. Self actualization

6. Based on Freud’s theory, which operates when a person is in the height of anger?
A. Ego
●B. Id

7. Operant conditioning can be applied to classroom by

●A. Using reinforcement
B. Using manipulative devices

8. “Women should not study since they will be marrying soon”. If a father tells his daughter this,
can we consider his premise morally right?
A. Depends on the family social status
●B. No, there is gender equality in education

9. In Piaget’s concrete operational stage, teacher Maritel should provide_______________.

A. Activities of hypothesis formulation
●B. Learning activities that involve problems of classification and order

10. A student is finding it hard to read. When the guidance counselor traced the child’s history,
the counselor was able to find out that the student came from a dysfunctional family, aside from
that, the child was abused and neglected. What could have caused the student’s reading
disability?
●A. Emotional Factors
B. Poor teaching

11. A child was punished for cheating in an exam. For sure the child wont cheat again in short
span of time, but this does not guarantee that the child won’t cheat ever again Based on
Thorndike’s theory on punishment and learning, this shows that ____________.
A. Punishment strengthens a response
●B. Punishment weakens a response

12. Laughing at a two-year-old child who uttered a bad word is not a proper thing to do because
in this stage of the child’s, the child is_______________.
A. Considering the views of others
●B. Distinguishing right from wrong

13. According to Sigmund Freud, the main proponent of Psychoanalytic Theory, the superego is
mainly concerned with
●A. The idea of right and wrong
B. The development of healthy psyche

14. Modeling is a teaching rooted on______________________ learning theory.

●A. Bandura
B. Skinner

15. Teacher Marissa would like to employ Operant Conditioning on her students to increase the
probabilities of greater participation during discussion. It is highly possible that teacher Marissa
will
A. Put more emphasis on sharing and consistently guide them to new ideas
●B. Give a star token to those who will participate

16. One of the traits of many students is putting more emphasis on “porma” over substance. This
is likely to be shown when
A. A written report was submitted by a student with shabby cover but comprehensive content
●B. A written report was submitted by a student using “perfumed” stationary but poor content

17. Providing variety of learning activities to students is a characteristic of a teacher who

understand the principle of
●A. Facilitating learning with emphasis on individual differences
B. Allowing the student to be exposed to various teaching techniques

18. The best example of Operant Conditioning among the following is

●A. Using reinforcement
B. Using manipulative devices

19. A child receives a STAR STAMP after correctly completing his task. The child always tries to
complete all tasks correctly for him to have a stamp once again. What is being shown in the
situation?
●A. Operant Conditioning
B. Classical conditioning

20. A child submitted a poor written report but packaged with brightly colored paper cover. This
showcases__________________.
A. Art over academics
● B. “porma” over substance

21. He is considered as the first special education student.

●A. Victor of Aveyron
B. Tarzan of the Jungle

22. The Father of modern psychology

● A. Sigmund Freud
B. Aristotle

23. He is postulated that man psyche is composed of animus and the anima
A. Karen Horney
●B. Carl Jung

24. He pioneered in NON-Directive Counseling?

●A. Carl Rogers
B. Erik Erikson

25. This educator proposed 3 modes of representation,enactive, iconic and symbolic

A. Bandura
●B. Bruner

26. This premier behaviorist once said: Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed and my
own specified world to bring them up in and I’ll guarantee to take any one of random and train
him to become any type of specialist I might select – doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and,
yes even beggar-man and chief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities,
vacations, and race of his ancestors”
A. Bandura
●B. Watson

27. His best contribution to the world of education is the 3 laws (law of effect, law or readiness
and law of exercise)
●A. Thorndike
B. Pavlov

28. The teachers’ widely accepted view of giving rewards to students is the legacy of
A. Dewey
●B. Skinner

29. He believes that learning is based on Adhesive principle

A. Dewey C. Kounin
B. Bruner ●D. Koffka

30. One of main proponent of Gestalt and who believes that the whole is more than the sum of all
its parts
●A. Wertheimer
B. Thorndike

31. “the child learns from what he sees in the environment” is the main thesis of this famous
educational psychologist
● A. Bandura
B. Locke

32. According to this theorist, our behavior at a particular time is a product of the interaction of
two factors, internal and external forces
●A. Lewin
B. Wertheimer

33. According to this developmental psychologist, children’s thinking skills move from
simplicity to complexity
●A. Piaget
B. Thorndike

34. The inventor of the first usable intelligence test

A. Freud
●B. Binet

35. This particular theorist believes that the mind is blank at birth
●A. Locke
B. Skinner

36. He is generally considered as the father of modern education

A. Collin
●B. Comenius
37. Kindergarten movement is the legacy of this man who is considered the father of
kindergarten
A. Pestalozzi
●B. Froebel

38. He once said: “education is not a preparation for life…it is life”

A. Montessori
●B. Dewey

39. He proposed that every child is born with a unique potential, his individuality, but that
potential remained unfulfilled until it was analyzed and transformed by education
●C. Herbart
B. Kohler

40. He pioneered in coming up with a list of development task as individuals pass through the
developmental stages
●A. Havigburst
B. Hurlock

41. This educator is famous for applying classical education to impoverished children of Chicago
Illinois.
●A. Collins
B. Montessori

42. This educator opposes the traditional notion that students are empty vessels. He call this
traditional technique as banking system
●A. Freire
B.Locke

43. He pioneered in the study of language acquisition of children

●A. Chomsky
B. Freire

44. He introduced the notion of zone of proximal development and “scaffolding”

●A. Vygotsky
B. Tyler

45. This condition is also known as trisomy 21

●B. Down Syndrome
B. Patau Syndrome

46. This condition is characterized by poor spelling and pervasive difficulty in reading
A. Mental retardation
●D. dyslexia

47. Certain injury to the language area of the brain can cause the total loss of the ability to
produce and/ or understand language, this condition is known as
A. Mutism
●B. Aphasia

48. ___________is a disorder of neural development characterized by impaired social interaction

and communication and by restricted and repetitive behavior.
A. Mental retardation
●B. Autism

49. ________ refers to quantitative changes in an individual as he progresses in chronological

age.
A. Development
●B. Growth

50. ________ refers to progressive series of changes of an orderly coherent type leading to the
individual’s maturation.
●A. Development
B. Growth