Free MTLE Educational Psychology Questions and Answers

Question 1

Process whereby an organism is made more responsive to certain aspects of its environment

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Sensitization

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Habituation

Question 2

This states that a learned response is most easily given in the direction in which it was formed.

Accepted Answer

Principle of polarity

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Principle of refutability

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Principle of association

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Principle of parsimony

Question 3

Skinner distinguished two kinds of behavior, the  _____________ which is elicited by a known stimulus and the ___________ which is not elicited by a known stimulus but simply emitted by the organism.

Accepted Answer

Respondent behavior;operant behavior

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Operant behavior; respondent behavior

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Deprived behavior;radical behavior

Question 4

This is an unlearned or innate response in reaction to a specific class of stimuli

Accepted Answer

Reflex

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Species-specific behavior

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Instinct

Question 5

According to Plato, all knowledge is reminiscence or recollection of the experience our soul had in the

Accepted Answer

“heaven which is beyond the heavens”

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highest of the heavens

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heaven above all heavens