Child Development and Pedagogy Questions Set

Q1. Piaget termed the cognitive structures responsible for person’s organised patterns of behavior as
(a) Assimilation (b) Adaptation
(c) Schemata (d) Accommodation
Ans: (c)


Q2. The following is known as ‘Gang age’
(a) Infancy (b) Early childhood
(c) Adolescence (d) Late childhood
Ans: (d)


Q3. A child who is attracted to participate in running race on account of the prize announced for every participant, against his wish not willing to participate for fear of spoiling his hew dress. This conflict is
(a) Approach-Avoidance
(b) Approach-Approach
(c) Avoidance-Avoidance
(d) Double approach-Avoidance
Ans: (a)


Q4. Children from this home environment show childish, withdrawal, dependence, fear, jealous behaviours
(a) Accepting the child
(b) Harmony, Good adjustment
(c) Consistent, accurate discipline
(d) Over caring, pampering
Ans: (d)


Q5. One of following is a projective test
(a) Bell’s adjustment inventory
(b) Self confidence inventory
(c) Vinland’s Social maturity scale
(d) Thematic apperception test
Ans: (d)


Q6. The characteristic feature of an individual with “adjustment” is
(a) Self pity
(b) Emotional imbalance
(c) Good mental health
(d) Unrealistic attitude
Ans: (c)


Q7. According to Golman, the skill of ‘understanding others’ comes under this dimension of emotional intelligence
(a) Social contact
(b) Self contact
(c) Self management
(d) Maintenance of relations
Ans: (a)


Q8. In an experiment this variable plays the role of ’cause’
(a) Dependent variable (b) Independent variable
(c) Intervening variable (d) No variable
Ans: (b)


Q9. Indentify the unrelated pair
(a) Observational leering-Bandura
(b) Theory of instructing-Bruner
(c) Insight leaning-Pavlov
(d) Trial and error theory-Thorndike
Ans: (c)


Q10. This theory originated from Gestaultism
(a) Operant conditioning
(b) Classical conditioning
(c) Trial and Error learning
(d) Insight learning
Ans: (d)


Q11. The laws and theories come under this category of concepts
(a) Conjunctive concept
(b) Disjunctive concept
(c) Relational concept
(d) Simple concept
Ans: (c)


Q12. People remember incomplete or interrupted tasks better than completed tasks-This is known as
(a) Dezavu (b) Zeigarnik effect
(c) Hallo effect (d) Gestaultism
Ans: (b)


Q13. The law of learning that encourages Drill and Home work is
(a) Law of Readiness (b) Law of exercise
(c) Law of effect (d) Law of Interference
Ans: (b)


Q14. The memory process which refers to the mental process of retrieval of information from the past without any cue or base
(a) Recognition
(b) Recall
(c) Redintigrative memory
(d) Re-learning
Ans: (b)


Q15. The interference of new memories with the retrieval of old memories is
(a) Proactive inhibition
(b) Deja vu
(c) Retroactive inhibition
(d) Redintigrative memory
Ans: (c)


Q16. If a child gets bored while doing an activity, it’s a sign for this-
(a) The child needs remedial teaching
(b) The child is not intelligent
(c) The activity became mechanical
(d) The child is an under achiever
Ans: (c)


Q17. When learning in one situation hinders or weakens the learning in another situation. This is
(a) Positive transfer of learning
(b) Negative transfer of learning
(c) Zero transfer of learning
(d) Bi lateral transfer of learning
Ans: (b)


Q18. According to Vygotsky, the speech at three years of age in language development is
(a) Private speech (b) Silent inner speech
(c) Social speech (d) Outer speech
Ans: (a)


Q19. Pickup the correct statement
(a) Eclectic counselling is a mixed method
(b) Directive counselling is counsellee centered
(c) Non-Directive counselling is counsellor centered
(d) In Non-Directive counselling, counsellor directs the solution
Ans: (a)


Q20. School development plan is prepared by
(a) Ward members under the leadership of Sarpanch
(b) Team of teachers under the leadership of Mandal Educational Officer
(c) Parents of Students in the School Complex
(d) School management committee
Ans: (d)


Q21. NCF 2005 guidelines on home work at primary level is,
(a) Two hours home work for a week upto2nd class
(b) Two hours home work for a week from 3rd class
(c) Two hours home work for a week for all primary classes
(d) One hour home work for a week for 1st class
Ans: (b)


Q22. Writing disability is
(a) Dyslexia (b) Dysphasia
(c) Dysgraphia (d) Dyscalculia
Ans: (c)


Q23. The weightage to the given for written works in formative evaluation
(a) 25 marks (b) 20 marks
(c) 15 marks (d) 10 marks
Ans: (d)


Q24. The following learning resource is confined to teachers
(a) Seminra (b) Books
(c) Internet (d) In-service trainings
Ans: (d)


Q25. For successful teaching, teacher has to
(a) Use textbooks only as sources of teaching
(b) Follow teacher centered methods for teaching
(c) Limit the evaluation to classroom activities only
(d) Prepare and execute teaching plans considering the diversified needs of the students
Ans: (d)


Q26. This chapter of RTE Act – 2009 contains the rules and standards prescribed for school
(a) Chapter-I (b) Chapter-III
(c) Chapter-VIII (d) Schedule
Ans: (d)


Q27. “Development is the complex process of integrating different structures and functions”– stated by
(a) Anderson (b) Craig
(c) Galton (d) Watson
Ans: (a)


Q28. Wrongly matched pair is
(a) Dugdale– Jukes family
(b) Goddard–Martin Kallikak family
(c) Freeman–Edward family
(d) Pearson–Darwin family
Ans: (c)


Q29. The first stage in language development is
(a) Bobbling stage
(b) Sound imitating stage
(c) Pre–linguistic stage
(d) Language comprehension stage
Ans: (c)


Q30. Ramesh listened to the description given by his teacher in the class about goat. Then he saw a black dog on his way and presumed it as a goat. This is due to
(a) Assimilation (b) Adjustment
(c) Animism (d) Ego centrism
Ans: (a)


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