NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA

UNIVERSITY VILLAGE, PLOT 91, CASDASTRAL ZONE, NNAMDI AZIKIWE EXPRESS WAY, JABI, ABUJA.
FACULTY OF SCIENCES
MAY/JUNE 2013 EXAMINATION

COURSE CODE:                  EDU 321

COURSE TITLE:                 PSYCHOLOGY OF LEARNING

Time allowed:                       2hrs

INSTRUCTIONS: Answer question 1 which is compulsory and any other two questions.

1 a) What is motivation?

  b) Explain three ways by which school pupils can be motivated to learn using Brunner’s model.

  c) Mention four classroom implications of motivation theories.

 d) List Maslow’s hierarchy of needs in ascending order

2 a) Briefly explain the implications of Thorndike’s theory of connectionism for human learning.

  b) Explain the concept of reinforcement.

  c) Categorize the four schedules of reinforcement into schedules that deal with passage of time and those associated with number of responses

3 a) Punishment is said to have a number of drawbacks, mention five of them.

   b) State five implications of Skinner’s learning theory for the management of classroom behavior.

4 a) Explain the concept of behavior problem

   b) With examples differentiate between stimulus generalization and stimulus discrimination

  c) Give two differences between classical and operant conditioning.