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REVIEW PRACTICE TEST: LEARNING THEORIES

MULTIPLE-CHOICE: Read the following questions. Review your handouts and try to
find answer. You can use other reference materials for your answer. Encircle the
letter of the correct answer. NO ERASURES!!!
1. Humanistic learning theory is best described by following statements. Which
is incorrect?
a. The role of educator is to be a facilitator.
b. Active learner is strongly influenced by attributions.
c. Perspective on learning is the assumption that each individual is
unique and that all individuals have a desire to grow in a positive way.
d. Motivation is derived from each person’s needs, subjective feelings
about self and the desire to grow.
2. A central principle of this theory is that behavior may be conscious or
unconscious – that is individuals may or may not be aware of their
motivations and why they feel, think and act as they do:
a. Humanistic learning theory
b. Social learning theory
c. Behaviorist learning theory
d. Psychodynamic learning theory
3. According to this perspective, to learn, individuals must change their
cognitions:
a. Behaviorist learning theory
b. Cognitive learning theory
c. Social learning theory
d. Psychodynamic learning theory
4. According to this perspective to modify people’s attitude and responses alter
the stimulus conditions in the environment or changing what happens after a
response occurs:
a. Behaviorist learning theory
b. Cognitive learning theory
c. Social learning theory
d. Psychodynamic learning theory
5. Role modeling is the central concept of this theory:
a. Behaviorist learning theory
b. Cognitive learning theory
c. Social learning theory
d. Psychodynamic learning theory
6. According to Albert Bandura behavior is regulated by ________________
such as self-efficacy or reinforcement.
a. Self-motivation
b. Reward
c. Changing the environment
d. Internal mechanism
7. It stresses the importance of what goes on “inside” the learner:
a. Behaviorist learning theory
b. Cognitive learning theory
c. Social learning theory
d. Humanistic learning theory
8. Following are cognitive theorists except:
a. Albert Bandura c. Jerome Brunner
b. John Dewey d. Robert Gagne
9. He postulated that learning can be transferred from one situation to another:
a. John Watson c. B.F. Skinner
b. Edward Thorndike d. Ivan Pavlov
10. According to this theory learner are passive, reactive who responds to
environmental conditions:
a. Behaviorist c. Social learning
b. Cognitive d. Psychodynamic
11. The assumption about the learner according to cognitive learning theory is:
a. Passive reactive c. Passive resistive
b. Active d. Passive
12. The sources of motivation for cognitive learning theory include the following
except:
a. Goals c. Disequilibrium
b. Expectations d. Drive reduction
13. He identified and described four sequential stages of cognitive development:
a. Erick Erikson c. Sigmund Freud
b. Jean Piaget d. Jean Watson
14. He theorized that psychosocial integration and personality development
progresses in eight sequential stages of development:
a. Erick Erikson c. Sigmund Freud
b. Jean Piaget d. Jean Watson
15. The id according to Freud operates on the basis of the ___________.
a. Pleasure principle c. Conscience
b. Reality principle d. Superego
16. After the divorce of his parents, a 10-year-old begins wetting the bed is an
example of what defense mechanism?
a. Displacement c. Regression
b. Repression d. Projection
17. A child who is abused by a parent later has no recollection of the events, but has
trouble forming relationships.
a. Displacement c. Regression
b. Repression d. Projection
18. For example, individuals with poor family lives may direct their energy into
excelling above and beyond what is required at work.
a. Projection
b. Reaction formation
c. Sublimation
d. Compensation
19. Someone who is frustrated by his or her superiors may go home and
kick the dog, beat up a family member, or engage in cross-burnings.
a. Displacement
b. Repression
c. Regression
d. Projection
20. Smokers may refuse to admit to themselves that smoking is bad for
their health.
a. Rationalization c. Denial
b. Intellectualization d. Compensation
21. A young man who fears he might be gay joins a conservative church and
becomes very involved with anti-homosexuality activism.
a. Projection c. Sublimation
b. Reaction formation d. Compensation
22. Which of the following component is true about humanistic learning theory?
a. To change behavior, change environment
b. To change behavior, change cognitions
c. To change behavior, change interpretations and make unconscious
motivations conscious
d. To change behavior, change feelings, self-concept and needs
23. Based on this theory active learner observes others and regulates decision to
reproduce behavior:
a. Behaviorist theory
b. Cognitive theory
c. Social learning theory
d. Psychodynamic learning theory
24. Which of the following is not a behaviorist theorist?
a. J. Dewey c. E. Thorndike
b. J. Watson d. B.F. Skinner
25. Following are cognitive theorist except:
a. J. Watson c. J. Brunner
b. J. Dewey d. R. Gagne
26. A social-cognitive theorist who view learner as passive and controlled by the
environment:
a. E. Thorndike
b. B.F. Skinner
c. I. Pavlov
d. A. Bandura
27. What is the source of motivation in Cognitive theory?
a. Drive reduction
b. Goals
c. Pleasure and reality principle
d. Desire for positive growth
28. The assumption of the learner in the Cognitive, Social, Psychodynamic, and
Humanistic theory is:
a. Passive reactive
b. Active learner
c. Passive and active
d. Active-resistive

29. In the Behaviorist theory the assumption of the learner is:

a. Active
b. Passive
c. Active-passive
d. Active-resistive
30. According to this theorist learning can be transferred from one situation to
another:
a. J. Watson
b. E. Thorndike
c. B.F. Skinner
d. A. Bandura
31. Jerome Brunner views learning as which of the following statements?
a. Learning is the result of conditioning and responses
b. Learning can be transferred from one situation to another
c. Learning is affected by culture and value system
d. Learning can occur in an orderly fashion, from simple to complex, from
concrete to abstract
32. Following are verbal ways of employing positive reinforcements except:
a. Saying praise words such as “well done”
b. Saying statements that could boost morale
c. Let him share his success stories
d. Looking please to what he shares
33. This is a set of integrated constructs and principles that describe or explain or
predict how people learn, how learning occurs, and what motivates people to
learn to change:
a. Theory
b. Learning
c. Learning theory
d. Principles of learning
34. He is the proponent of behaviorist theory which emphasize the importance of
behavior in the study of human being?
a. Watson
b. Brunner
c. Skinner
d. Thorndike
35. According to this theory in learning is a social process and it occurs by
observation of others and discern what happens to them:
a. Behaviorist learning theory
b. Cognitive learning theory
c. Social learning theory
d. Humanistic learning theory