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Understanding Learning — Quiz

15 questions 15 min Apply concepts

Q1. Smith (1962) defines learning as the acquisition of new behaviour or
- A. The natural unfolding of inborn potential
- B. A temporary change due to drugs or fatigue
- C. An immediate reflex response to a stimulus
- D. The strengthening or weakening of old behaviour as a result of experience
Q2. A newborn baby in a school in Patna sucks at the mother's breast within minutes of birth. This behaviour is
- A. Not learning, because it is a biological instinct
- B. Learning, because the baby has acquired a new behaviour
- C. Learning by imitation of other babies
- D. A case of positive transfer of learning
Q3. Paulo Freire's criticism of the 'banking' concept of education mainly attacks the view that
- A. Learning is a process the child carries out actively
- B. Learning is comprehensive and covers three domains
- C. Learning is lifelong and continuous from womb to tomb
- D. Learning is a product that the teacher deposits in a passive learner
Q4. Learning is described as 'universal and continuous, from womb to tomb'. The best classroom implication of this idea for a primary teacher is that
- A. Learning stops at the end of school years
- B. Learning happens only inside the school building
- C. Children come to class already carrying prior learning, and teaching must build on it
- D. Only formal lessons count as learning
Q5. A class 4 boy starts copying his elder brother's habit of using abusive language. This is
- A. Learning, because learning includes changes that may be favourable or unfavourable
- B. Not learning at all, because it is a bad habit
- C. Imprinting, because it begins early in life
- D. Maturation, because it appears naturally with age
Q6. Which of the following correctly distinguishes maturation from learning?
- A. Maturation requires deliberate practice; learning does not
- B. Maturation is taught by parents; learning is taught by teachers
- C. Maturation occurs only after age 18; learning occurs before
- D. Maturation is independent of practice and experience; learning depends on exercise and effort
Q7. Why is it said that the development of a child's language is BOTH maturation AND learning?
- A. Because vocal organs and brain readiness come through maturation while vocabulary and grammar come through teaching and experience
- B. Because language is purely a biological instinct
- C. Because every child can speak without any environment
- D. Because language is identical to imprinting
Q8. Which of the following BEST distinguishes imprinting from ordinary learning?
- A. Imprinting needs years of practice; learning needs none
- B. Imprinting changes behaviour permanently; learning changes it temporarily
- C. Imprinting is taught in schools; learning is taught at home
- D. Imprinting is species-specific and instinctive, occurring in a critical period soon after birth
Q9. In Marzano's framework, when a class 5 teacher in Rampur asks students to COMPARE and CLASSIFY different solids, liquids and gases, she is mainly engaging which dimension of learning?
- A. Dimension 3 — Extend and Refine Knowledge
- B. Dimension 1 — Attitudes and Perceptions
- C. Dimension 4 — Use Knowledge Meaningfully
- D. Dimension 5 — Habits of Mind
Q10. Learning is also a SOCIAL construct. Which pair of theorists is cited there for this social view of learning?
- A. Pavlov and Skinner
- B. Piaget and Erikson
- C. Thorndike and Kohler
- D. Bandura and Vygotsky
Q11. A primary teacher demonstrates a hand-washing routine and asks the children to watch, remember, repeat and feel proud when they do it. She is using Bandura's four processes in the order
- A. Attention → Retention → Rehearsal/Reproduction → Motivation
- B. Motivation → Rehearsal → Retention → Attention
- C. Retention → Attention → Motivation → Rehearsal
- D. Rehearsal → Attention → Motivation → Retention
Q12. Ravi, a class 3 child, struggles with chalk-and-talk lessons on plant parts but learns quickly when he plants seeds, touches leaves and arranges parts on a tray. In Fleming's VARK model, Ravi is most likely a
- A. Visual learner
- B. Auditory learner
- C. Reading/Writing learner
- D. Kinaesthetic learner
Q13. Some class 4 students finish a worksheet in 10 minutes while others need 25. Following the advice on pace of learning, the BEST teacher strategy is to
- A. Force everyone to stop after 10 minutes so no one feels left behind
- B. Label the slower children as 'weak' and ignore them
- C. Set a reasonable time limit and give early finishers meaningful enrichment tasks
- D. Give the same homework to all so pace differences disappear
Q14. A class 2 girl in Rampur copies her elder sister's way of tying a plait without being asked. This is BEST described as
- A. Learning by trial and error
- B. Imprinting, because it happens in the family
- C. Learning by insight
- D. Learning by imitation, which may be deliberate or unconscious
Q15. A teacher who has used a particular mobile number for years keeps dialling it by mistake even after she gets a new number. This is an example of
- A. Negative transfer of learning
- B. Positive transfer of learning
- C. Zero transfer of learning
- D. Insight learning

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