NPTEL Week-4 assignment- July 2023

Psychology of Learning

1) When there are many possible answers to a solution, we rely on ___ to help us
choose the best solution, like trying to answer or solve an open-ended question
a. luck
b. divergent thinking
c. remembering
d. sensory memory
e. symbolic thinking
Ans.= b
Solution: Please go through lecture notes of week-4 (slide no.03) for better
understanding.

2) ___ are representative items within each concept.

a. Imaginations
b. Focuses
c. Architectures
d. Prototypes
e. Images
Ans.= d
Solution: Please go through lecture notes of week-4 (slide no.04) for better
understanding.

3) Cognitive, affective, and psychomotor are three learning domains as given by ___
a. Cognitive architectures
b. Maslow’s hierarchy
c. Bloom’s Taxonomy
d. Propositions
e. Working memory theory
Ans.= c
Solution: Please go through lecture notes of week-4 (slide no.12) for better
understanding.

4) ___ knowledge defines knowledge about own knowledge or self-knowledge

a. Factual
b. Metacognitive
c. Cognitive
d. Procedural

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 e. Conceptual
Ans.= b
Solution: Please go through lecture notes of week-4 (slide no.18) for better
understanding.

5) ___ is the ability to collect and analyze information to come to a conclusion.

a. Critical thinking
b. Metacognition
c. Intuition
d. Affective thinking
e. Learning
Ans.= a
Solution: Please go through lecture notes of week-4 (slide no.29) for better
understanding.

6) ’Think out of the box’ refers to which of the following?

a. Creative thinking
b. Critical thinking
c. Reflective thinking
d. Analytical thinking
e. Metacognition
Ans.= a
Solution: Please go through lecture notes of week-4 (slide no.45) for better
understanding.

7) Which of the following is not a stage of the creative thinking process?

a. Elaboration
b. Evaluation
c. Preparation
d. Insight
e. Information
Ans.= e
Solution: Please go through lecture notes of week-4 (slide no.49) for better
understanding.

8) ___ is a method of problem solving in which possible solutions are tried until one is
successful.
a. Analogy

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 b. Trial and error
c. Chance
d. Algorithm
e. Creativity
Ans.= b
Solution: Please go through lecture notes of week-4 (slide no.51) for better
understanding.

9) In the traditional approach to learning, a student’s role is ___

a. passive
b. active
c. experiential
d. absent
e. unrecognized
Ans.= a
Solution: Please go through lecture notes of week-4 (slide no.59) for better
understanding.

10) ___ are versatile graphic organizers that can represent many different forms of
relationships between concepts.
a. Prototypes
b. Concepts
c. Emotional maps
d. Cognitive aids
e. Cognitive maps
Ans.= e
Solution: Please go through lecture notes of week-4 (slide no.68) for better
understanding.

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