Child Development and Pedagogy Questions Set

Q1. Which is not the cause of individual differences?
(a) Heredity (b) Environment
(c) Maturity (d) Guidance
Ans: (d)


Q2. Out of following which is not the enrichment programme for Gifted children?
(a) Enrichment of curriculum
(b) Grade acceleration
(c) Arrangement of special classes
(d) Special residential school
Ans: (d)


Q3. Out of following which is not the type of imitative behavior given by Miller and Dollard?
(a) Same behaviour
(b) Correlative behaviour
(c) Copying behaviour
(d) Matched dependent behaviour
Ans: (b)


Q4. “Educational Psychology is that branch of psychology which deals with teaching and learning.” This statement is given by: (Exam: 2019)
(a) Woodworth (b) Skinner
(c) Simpson (d) Pavlov
Ans: (b)


Q5. A child “Who is in the middle of his school (that is about ten and half years) is unable to do the work of the class below that which is normal for his age” is known as which type of children?
(a) Mentally retarded
(b) Educationally retarded
(c) Moron
(d) Idiot
Ans: (b)


Q6. Who was the propunder of multidimensional intelligence theory?
(a) Alfred Binet (b) Guilford
(c) Howard Gardner (d) Thorndike
Ans: (c)


Q7. ‘Gender schema Theory’ was proposed by whom?
(a) Albert Bandura (b) Jean Piaget
(c) S.L. Bem (d) R.A. Baron
Ans: (c)


Q8. Out of following which is not the example of Intrinsic motivation?
(a) Praise (b) Anxiety
(c) Need for achievement(d) Level of aspiration
Ans: (a)


Q9. According to Vygotsky, which of the following concepts appear central to learning?
(a) Proximity (b) Adaption
(c) Assimilation (d) Culture and Language
Ans: (d)


Q10. At what age gender identity is established in children?
(a) 2 years (b) 4 years
(c) 6 years (d) 7 years
Ans: (a)


Q11. ‘Ego Centeredness’ is main characteristic of which intellectual stage as given by Jean Piaget?
(a) Sensory motor stage
(b) Pre–operational stage
(c) Concrete operational stage
(d) Formal operational stage
Ans: (b)


Q12. A student got 47 marks out of 100 in a subject under scholastic area, this score will convert in which grade under C.C.E. scheme?
(a) B2 (b) C1
(c) C2 (d) B1
Ans: (c)


Q13. Below are given the pairs of theories of learning and their exponents. Indicate which pair is not correctly matched?
(a) Conditioning Responses–Wolf and Reid
(b) Insight Theory–Wortheimar and Kohlar
(c) Stimulus–Response Theory–Thorndike, Gates, Stephen
(d) Reinforcement Theory–Hull and Skinner
Ans: (a)


Q14. Which of the following is not a stage of psycho– sexual development as given by Freud?
(a) Oral stage (b) Anal stage
(c) Latency stage (d) Iconic stage
Ans: (d)


Q15. At the age of 3 years how many words learn by a child?
(a) Approx 200 (b) Approx 300
(c) Approx 500 (d) Approx 1000
Ans: (d)


Q16. Which is not the element of creativity?
(a) Fluency (b) Flexibility
(c) Originality (d) Memorisings
Ans: (d)


Q17. In some of the cases children shows less mental ability as compared to their parents and viseversa, this rule of heredity is known as what?
(a) Law of Regression
(b) Law of selective traits
(c) Law of maternal and paternal lines
(d) Law of chance
Ans: (a)


Q18. Who introduce ‘Mental Age’ word very first?
(a) Alfred Binet (b) Thurston
(c) Thorndike (d) Guilford
Ans: (a)


Q19. According to AAMD and APA what is the I.Q. range of severe mental retardation children?
(a) 52 to 67 (b) 36 to 51
(c) 20 to 35 (d) below 20
Ans: (c)


Q20. According to Ross which stage of development is known as ‘Pseudo Maturity’ stage?
(a) Infancy (b) Childhood
(c) Adolescence (d) Adulthood
Ans: (b)


Q21. Assessment of performance done by students frequently at the end of unit using criterion– referenced test and employing multiple techniques of evaluation is know as what type of evaluation?
(a) Continual of evaluation
(b) Periodicity of evaluation
(c) Above (a) & (b) both
(d) Neither (a) nor (b) above
Ans: (b)


Q22. What is the age group of early childhood?
(a) 0 to 2 years (b) 2 to 4 years
(c) 2 to 6 years (d) 4 to 7 years
Ans: (c)


Q23. Dyslexia is associated with:
(a) Mental disorder
(b) Reading disorder
(c) Behavioral disorder
(d) Mathematical disorder
Ans: (b)


Q24. When the development of the same subject is studied over a period of time, the study is called:
(a) Life history study
(b) Survey study
(c) Cross–sectional study
(d) Longitudinal study
Ans: (d)


Q25. “Learning is process of development” stated by whom?
(a) Woodworth (b) Yokam
(c) Simpson (d) Dr. Mace
Ans: (a)


Q26. To develop creativity in a child, the teacher should not:
(a) Restrict the activities of the child.
(b) Respect the views of the child.
(c) Satisfy the anxieties of the child.
(d) Lead the child to novel thinking.
Ans: (a)


Q27. A student is tried to new knowledge in such a way that he/she is tried to modified and elaborate concepts and principles already learnt. This type of learning is known as what?
(a) Combinational learning
(b) Subordinate learning
(c) Superordinate learning
(d) Correlative learning
Ans: (a)


Q28. “Reasoning of child is not logical and is based on intuition rather than on systematic logic.” According to Piaget this stage of cognitive development is called :
(a) Sensory motor period
(b) Preoperations period
(c) Concrete operations period
(d) Formal operations period
Ans: (b)


Q29. Out of the following which is not the example of intrinsic motivation ?
(a) Anxiety
(b) Need for achievement
(c) Level of aspiration
(d) Praise
Ans: (d)


Q30. Which of the following parenting styles is most effective for development of Children’s social competence ?
(a) Authoritarian (b) Neglectful
(c) Authoritative (d) Indulgent
Ans: (c)


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