Child Development and Pedagogy Questions Set

Q1. …………….proposed Seven primary mental abilities which are present in intelligence.
(a) Thurstone (b) Guilford
(c) Simon (d) Sternberg
Ans: (a)


Q2. Memorization in true memory is done
(a) Through habit (b) Mechanically
(c) Actively (d) Systematically
Ans: (d)


Q3. WISC is used to measure intelligence of–
(a) Children (b) Infants
(c) Adults (d) None of the above
Ans: (a)


Q4. …………… has categorised stages of personality development on the basis of resolution of social conflict.
(a) Freud (b) Erikson
(c) Maslow (d) Piaget (Exam: November, 2020)
Ans: (b)


Q5. Retrieval is a process involved in ……………….
(a) Sensation (b) Perception
(c) Attention (d) Memory
Ans: (d)


Q6. To select some information for processing and to relegate others to periphery is–
(a) Learning (b) Memory
(c) Attention (d) Sensation
Ans: (c)


Q7. Span of attention is ………………….
(a) Limited (b) Unlimited
(c) Unknown (d) None of the above
Ans: (a)


Q8. Powerful motivation is effective factor of learning. In this the child
(a) Becomes healthy (b) Does meditation
(c) Feels happy (d) Learns rapidly
Ans: (d)


Q9. Who said this – “Social development means the attaining of maturity in social relationship”?
(a) Sorenson (b) Hurlock
(c) Ross (d) Alice Crow
Ans: (b)


Q10. Area of physical development is–
(a) Nervous system (b) Growth of muscles
(c) Endocrine glands (d) All the above
Ans: (d)


Q11. Who propounded Dalton method?
(a) Froebel (b) Maria Montessori
(c) Armstrong (d) Helen Parkhurst
Ans: (d)


Q12. Who said this – “the process of education is entirely at the mercy of psychology”?
(a) Skinner (b) B.N. Jha
(c) Davis (d) Grow & Crow
Ans: (b)


Q13. Stage during which psycho-sexual energy is directed towards developing peer group social relations is–
(a) Oral (b) Anal
(c) Latency (d) Genital
Ans: (c)


Q14. Morality is decided on the basis of personal norms during–
(a) Post – Conventional level
(b) Conventional level
(c) Pre – Conventional level
(d) None of the above
Ans: (a)


Q15. The part of personality which develops last is–
(a) Ego (b) Super Ego
(c) Id (d) Unconscious
Ans: (b)


Q16. Ability to produce diverse thoughts on a subject is–
(a) Perception (b) Intelligence
(c) Creativity (d) Sensation
Ans: (c)


Q17. IQ of an 8 year old student, whose Mental Age is 6 Years, will be–
(a) 80 (b) 75
(c) 70 (d) 65
Ans: (b)


Q18. Erikson’s Developmental Task for elementary students is–
(a) Knowledge and skill acquisition
(b) Autonomy acquisition
(c) Trust acquisition
(d) Identity acquisition
Ans: (a)


Q19. As a science, Educational Psychology emphasizes on–
(a) Measurement (b) Past events
(c) Internal factors (d) None of the above
Ans: (a)


Q20. Low IQ of children brought up in orphanages is mainly due to–
(a) Deprived Environment
(b) Heredity
(c) Biological Deprivation
(d) None of the above
Ans: (a)


Q21. Approximate percentage of population, having IQ above 130 will be–
(a) 50 (b) 16
(c) 6.5 (d) 2.2
Ans: (d)


Q22. Who gave the stimulus substitution theory of learning?
(a) Thorndike (b) Skinner
(c) Pavlov (d) None of above
Ans: (c)


Q23. Concept of Mental Age was given by–
(a) Terman (b) Simon
(c) Binet (d) Stanford
Ans: (c)


Q24. Multidimensional ability is–
(a) Mechanical Aptitude
(b) Attitude
(c) Intelligence
(d) Numerical ability
Ans: (c)


Q25. Semantic Memory is mainly associated with–
(a) Skill learning (b) Important Events
(c) General Knowledge (d) None of the above
Ans: (c)


Q26. According to ……………, self is the central point of personality.
(a) Constructivism
(b) Behaviorism
(c) Humanism
(d) None of the above
Ans: (c)


Q27. First stage of Development is
(a) Infancy
(b) Pre-Natal
(c) Childhood
(d) None of the above
Ans: (b)


Q28. Erikson theory psycho-social has ………stages
(a) Four (b) Six
(c) Seven (d) Eight
Ans: (d)


Q29. The scheme to grasping object is called:
(a) Schema (b) Accommodation
(c) Assimilation (d) Equilibrium
Ans: (c)


Q30. Classical Conditioning principle was given by:
(a) B.F Skinner (b) Wanpanlou
(c) Thorndike (d) Watson
Ans: (*)


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