MCQ in Principles of Learning and Motivation Part 1 | Licensure Exam for Teachers 2022

(Last Updated On: August 27, 2023)

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• Teaching Profession, Social Dimensions of Education
• Principles of Teaching, Educational Technology, Curriculum Development
• Facilitating Learning, Child and Adolescent Development
• Assessment of Student Learning, Developmental Reading
• Field Study, Practice Teaching

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Choose the letter of the best answer in each questions.

1. Which theory operates on the “stimulus-response principle”, which means all behaviors are caused by external stimuli?

a. Contextual theory

b. Behaviorist theory

c. Cognitive theory

d. Constructivist theory

2. Ms. Erika in her Biology class accompanies her discussion with interesting visual aids. She strongly believes that students learn better when lessons are presented with images, real or imagined aside from mere lecture method. Which learning theory does she upholds?

a. Dual-Coding Theory

b. Information Processing Theory

c. Meaningful Reception Learning Theory

d. Social Cognitive Theory

3. Miss Rita is an excellent Physical Education teacher. She started teaching volleyball to her Grade 2 class. Despite all her efforts, her class does not seem to learn how to play the game. What law of learning was disregarded?

a. Law of Disuse

b. Law of Effect

c. Law of Exercise

d. Law of Readiness

4. Teacher jay, a physical education teacher, demonstrates the new skill to be learned so that his students can watch him and later reproduce the skill. What learning theory is associated with the situation?

a. Dual-Coding Learning Theory

b. Information Processing

c. Schema Learning Theory

d. Social Learning

5. Patrice is always fearful of freely roaming dogs but does not mind dogs in a pen or on a leash. What feature of classical conditioning is exhibited?

a. Discrimination

b. Extinction

c. Generalization

d. Practice

6. A music teacher is careful in planning activities for each lesson. He praises liberally and rewards correct answers. What view of learning is exhibited?

a. Classical conditioning

b. Meaningful learning

c. Operant conditioning

d. Social learning

7. Which of the theories of learning presents or states that learning skills are hierarchically arranged?

a. Cumulative Learning

b. Meaningful Learning

c. Social Cognitive Learning

d. Theory of Instruction

8. Which of the following best describes what meaningful learning is?

a. When what is to be learned is new and easy for the students

b. Materials presented are difficult and challenging to the students

c. When the materials to be learned is related to what students already know

d. Students find the lessons easy and relevant to what was assigned to them

9. Rita easily remember dates and events in history. What component of LTM does Rita have?

a. Creative thinking

b. Critical thinking

c. Reflective thinking

d. Logical thinking

10. An Earth Science has just completed a unit on the sun. As she recognizes her next unit on other stars, she uses the sun as a frame of reference. What view of learning was used?

a. Discovery learning

b. Informative learning

c. Meaningful learning

d. Transfer learning

11. Which is an application of cognitive approach to motivation?

a. Explain the reasons for studying the topic

b. Create a supportive classroom climate for students

c. Provide clear and prompt feedback on assignments

d. Begin lessons with challenging questions and conflicting events

12. The first people power was held on February 25, 1986. What kind of knowledge is presented?

a. Conditional Knowledge

b. Cognitive Knowledge

c. Domain-Specific Knowledge

d. Procedural Knowledge

13. The students of Mrs. Reyes were not able to learn the concepts that she presented yesterday so she taught the same concepts again but this time using a different teaching method. What principle of learning was applied?

a. Concepts should be presented in varied and different ways

b. Effort was put forth when tasks are challenging

c. Learning by doing is more effective than just by sitting and listening

d. Learning is aided by formulating and asking questions

14. Alvin is a transferee and feels uneasy with his new school. His teacher is very accommodating, warm and caring. Alvin felt comfortable with the teacher display of genuine warmth. The teacher is consistent in his manner and Alvin began to associate school with the teacher’s warmth. Which theory is being illustrated?

a. Meaningful learning

b. Operant conditioning

c. Classical conditioning

d. Observational learning

15. After just being introduced to another guest in the party, Tom cannot remember the name of the guest he was introduced to. In what memory stage was the information stored in?

a. Episodic memory

b. Semantic memory

c. Sensory memory

d. Working memory

16. Vygotsky claimed that social interaction is important for learning. What does this imply?

a. Children are independent problem solvers

b. Children learn from adults and other children

c. Children learn by passive presentation of information

d. Children in the crib has no learning yet, since they are not capable of interaction

17. How would you help a student who is intelligent but is underachieving in class?

a. Provide challenging activities which he/she can accomplish

b. Recognize his talents by asking him/her to help other students with their work

c. Identify the immediate causes of difficulties that cause his/her being an underachiever

d. Allow him/her to work with the slow learner group to cope with the academic needs of the lesson.

18. Mrs. Corpuz always makes sure that her pre-school classroom is well organized and clean. She puts up interesting and colorful visuals on the bulletin boards. What principle of motivation was applied?

a. Incentives motivate learning

b. Internal motivation is longer lasting and more self-directive than is external motivation

c. Motivation is enhanced by the way in which instructional material is organized.

d. The environment can be used to focus the student’s attention on what needs to be learned.

19. For every correct answer, the teacher would give a star to her students. What schedule of reinforcement was used?

a. Fixed interval

b. Fixed ratio

c. Variable interval

d. Variable ratio

20. Marga, a six-year-old, always asked her playmates to sit in front of her small black board and she plays teacher. Her mother is a teacher. What theory explains Marga’s behavior?

a. Classical Conditioning

b. Operant Conditioning

c. Social Learning

d. Information Processing

21. What should the teacher do to help students learn psychomotor skills?

a. Teacher uses verbal explanation and description of the movements in addition to live demonstration of the movements

b. Teacher provides feedback to the learner about his/her progress

c. Teacher encourages the learner to practice, in order to maintain his/her sharpness of the movements

d. All of the above

22. The teacher presented a new lesson where in the students were asked to work on a new project which was somewhat complicated. The students showed interest while working on the project. What principle applies to the situation?

a. Effort was put forth when tasks are challenging

b. Lessons should be presented in varied and different ways

c. Meaningful materials are readily learned than nonsense materials

d. Teachers should provide opportunities for meaningful and appropriate practice

23. Maturation should precede certain types of learning. How is this applied in the classroom?

a. Concepts should be taught from simple to complex

b. Consider the age level of students in assigning tasks

c. Follow the interest of students in assigning tasks

d. Give the same task to all students in a particular grade level

24. Luz easily learns a lesson when she is working with laboratory equipment but hardly remembers a lesson the teacher lectured on. What type of learner is Luz?

a. Auditory Learner

b. Kinesthetic Learner

c. Tactile Learner

d. Visual Learner

25. Which of the following statements about motivation is false?

a. External motivation is longer lasting and more self-directive than internal motivation

b. Internal motivation is fueled by one’s goals or ambitions

c. Motivation is enhanced by the way in which the instructional material is organized

d. Motivation to perform is affected by expectancy and value

26. Based on Bandura’s theory, which conditions must be present for a student to learn from a model?

I. Attention

II. Retention

III. Motor Reproduction

IV. Motivation

 

a. I and II

b. I, II and III

c. I, II, III and IV

d. III and IV

27. Which of the following principles of learning applies to considering student’s age in presenting certain content and cognitive processes?

a. Principle of readiness

b. Principle of learning by doing

c. Principle of presenting challenging tasks

d. Principle of learning aided by formulating and asking questions

28. In classical conditioning, which are paired together in order to elicit the desired response?

a. UCS and NS

b. CS and NS

c. UCS and CS

d. UCR and NS

29. According to Thorndike, what law states that the strength of a connection is influenced by the consequences of the response?

a. Law of disuse

b. Law of effect

c. Law of exercise

d. Law of readiness

30. A burglary occurred in Jason’s neighborhood. Since then, Jason is very careful of locking their doors and closing windows. What theory best explains Jason’s behavior?

a. Observational learning

b. Imitation learning

c. Self-regulated learning

d. Vicarious learning

31. In observation and imitation learning, what should be the learner’s response when the teacher initially models the behavior?

a. Reproduce and match

b. Pay Attention

c. Imitate and practice

d. Shows satisfaction

32. What is the correct sequence of information processing?

a. Sensory register-STM-LTM

b. STM-sensory register-LTM

c. Sensory register-LTM-STM

d. LTM-sensory register- STM

33. What should be the hierarchy of the types of learning according to the cumulative learning theory?

1. Problem solving learning

2. Rule learning

3. Discrimination learning

4. Concept learning

 

a. 2-1-3-4

b. 2-1-4-3

c. 2-3-4-1

d. 2-4-3-1

34. Which is essential in meaningful reception learning?

a. Concepts are presented to learner and received by them.

b. Concepts are discovered by the learner

c. Concepts are related to one another

d. Concepts are solicited from the learners

35. Grace is bilingual. She speaks both English and Filipino fluently. She begins to study Spanish and immediately recognizes many similarities between the Spanish and Filipino languages and uses this information to acquire the new language faster. What kind of transfer was Grace able to use?

a. Lateral Transfer

b. General Transfer

c. Specific Transfer

d. Vertical Transfer

36. Cristina is almost asleep when she felt the need to go to the bathroom. She tried to sleep it off but after a while, she was forced to stand up and go to the bathroom. What theory of motivation explains Cristina’s behavior?

a. Attribution Theory

b. Drive Theory

c. Expectancies and Values Theory

d. Solomon’s Opponent Theory

37. Marko excels in adding numbers. He learned this skill in his Math class. He is now able to apply this skill in his Music class. What type of transfer was used?

a. Lateral transfer

b. General transfer

c. Specific transfer

d. Vertical transfer

38. Mr. Lorenzo would always give the chapter test on a Friday. What schedule of reinforcement is used by Mr. Lorenzo?

a. Fixed interval

b. Fixed ratio

c. Variable interval

d. Variable ratio

39. To remember the six digits, 8, 4, 3, 9, 4, 5, the Math teacher grouped the numbers in two’s 84, 39, 45 or in threes 843, 945. What control process of retaining information is referred to?

a. Chunking

b. Interfering

c. Rehearsing

d. Remembering

40. Rob regularly practice playing the guitar so he can finish Book I. His mother promised to buy him a Nintendo when he finishes Book I. How is Rob motivated?

a. Extrinsically

b. Intrinsically

c. with Self-Determination

d. with Self-Efficacy

41. Lara excels in dancing and in certain sports. According to Gardner what intelligence is dominant in Lara?

a. Bodily kinesthetic

b. Intrapersonal

c. Musical

d. Spatial

42. According to Bronfenbrenner, what system contains structures that has direct contact with the child?

a. Chronosystem

b. Exosystem

c. Mesosystem

d. Microsystem

43. Some learners like to find specific and concrete answers. What kind of learners are they?

a. Accomodators

b. Assimilators

c. Convergers

d. Divergers

44. Mrs. Mercado, the Home Economics teacher, constantly gives verbal guidance to her pupils while practicing a sewing skill. What is the value of giving verbal guidance in improving pupils learning behavior?

a. It promotes the growth of interest in the new learning tasks

b. It serves as informational feedback

c. It facilitates perfection of skills

d. It directs pupils’ attention to more adequate and better techniques

45. Why should learning be aided by formulating and asking questions?

a. Students will have a grade in recitation

b. Students will develop their self-confidence

c. The teacher will know who among the students can communicate very well

d. The teacher will not always do the talking but the students will be given a

chance to do the same thing.

46. Ms. Baquiran, the VE teacher, and her pupils, while working on the concept of honesty, agreed that no cabinets and book cases would be locked throughout the day. Which principle in affective learning is being implemented?

a. Provide exemplary models

b. Provide appropriate practice

c. Provide for pleasant emotional experience

d. Provide for independent attitude cultivation

47. Instead of asking her students to write about their reaction to a story, the teacher asked her students to interpret the story in dance form. What principle of learning is considered?

a. Concepts should be presented in varied and different ways

b. Effort if put forth when tasks are challenging

c. Learning by doing is more effective than just sitting and listening

d. Learning is aided by formulating and asking questions

48. In performing the minuet, first raise your heel, second make three steps forward, third step make a point. What kind of knowledge was exhibited?

a. Conditional Knowledge

b. Declarative Knowledge

c. Domain-Specific Knowledge

d. Procedural Knowledge

49. Why should teachers provide positive feedback and realistic praise?

a. To motivate the students to study

b. So the students will know what to do

c. To be liked and loved by the students

d. So the students will praise him/her

50. Which statement does not refer to cognitive theories?

a. Prefer to concentrate on analyzing cognitive process

b. Conclusions are based on observation of external manifestations on learning

c. Study of the structures and components of information processing

d. Believe in non-observable behavior

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