Child Development and Pedagogy Questions Set

Q1. ____ motives are considered as primary motives.
(a) Psychological (b) Physiological
(c) Social (d) None of the above
Ans: (b)


Q2. Learning disability in motor skills is called
(a) Dyscalculia (b) Dyslexia
(c) Dysphasia (d) None of the above
Ans: (d)


Q3. The term ‘counselling is derived’ from the Latin word
(a) Crioulo (b) Consilium
(c) Cri du chat (d) None of the above
Ans: (b)


Q4. This type of counseling involves people who drop out from the school and whose difficulties are likely to be more severe.
(a) Community-based counselling
(b) School-based counselling
(c) Both (A) and (B)
(d) None of the above
Ans: (a)


Q5. The word Maturation was first used in child psychology by
(a) William McDougall (b) J.B. Watson
(c) A. Gesell (d) None of them
Ans: (c)


Q6. He was the first who tried to divide human development in different stages.
(a) Rousseau (b) Plato
(c) Aristotle (d) None of them
Ans: (a)


Q7. Children think that everything around them, including toys, are alive. This mental characteristic of children is called
(a) Existentialism (b) Determinism
(c) Animism (d) None of the above
Ans: (c)


Q8. Environment, and not the heredity, is important for human development. The supporter of this view is
(a) Darwin (b) Watson
(c) Galton (d) None of them
Ans: (b)


Q9. This is not a principle of development.
(a) Development is continuous
(b) Development is consistent
(c) Development is lifelong
(d) None of the above
Ans: (d)


Q10. The world appears as a spaceless, timeless, objectless unit to the child in the period of
(a) Sensory motor thinking
(b) Intuitive thought
(c) Concrete operation
(d) None of the above
Ans: (a)


Q11. According to _______, cognitive development, cognitive conflict and role taking ability are three elements of moral development.
(a) Kohlberg (b) Piaget
(c) Havighurst (d) None of them
Ans: (a)


Q12. Stage of heteronomous morality and stage of individualism morality are part of
(a) Conventional morality
(b) Post–conventional morality
(c) Pre–conventional morality
(d) None of the above
Ans: (c)


Q13. Vygotsky assumes that cognitive development
(a) Is universal across culture
(b) Varies across culture
(c) Is not influenced by the environment
(d) None of the above
Ans: (b)


Q14. In language development, CDS stands for
(a) Child–directed speech
(b) Conversation–directed speech
(c) Communication–directed speech
(d) None of the above
Ans: (a)


Q15. Which of the following is an example of intellectual disability?
(a) Dyslexia
(b) ADHD
(c) Autistic spectrum disorder
(d) None of the above
Ans: (d)


Q16. In learning disabilities, the name for mathematical disorder is
(a) Dyspraxia (b) Dyslexia
(c) Dysphasia (d) None of the above
Ans: (d)


Q17. If a child has mental age of 5 years and chronological age of 4 years, then what will be the IQ of the child?
(a) 100 (b) 125
(c) 130 (d) None of the above
Ans: (b)


Q18. Which one is not an important factor of creativity?
(a) Originality (b) Fluency
(c) Flexibility (d) None of the above
Ans: (d)


Q19. When an individual with multiple cognitive disabilities has extraordinary proficiency in one isolated skill, this is known as
(a) Asperger ability
(b) Rain Man Syndrome
(c) Savant syndrome
(d) None of the above
Ans: (c)


Q20. ‘Three–ring conception’ of giftedness was proposed by
(a) Jean Piaget
(b) Joseph Renzulli
(c) E.L. Thorndike
(d) None of them
Ans: (b)


Q21. Differentiated Model of Giftedness and Talent (DMGT) was propounded by
(a) Francoy’s Gagne (b) Sternberg
(c) Terman (d) None of them
Ans: (a)


Q22. Which of the following procedures can be used to identify Down Syndrome tenatally?
(a) Amnioprolaxis
(b) Amniocentesis
(c) Amniophalxi
(d) None of the above
Ans: (b)


Q23. This is not a method of identifying gifted children.
(a) Classroom observation
(b) Achievement tests
(c) IQ test
(d) None of the above
Ans: (d)


Q24. Who first coined the term IQ?
(a) Stern (b) Sternberg
(c) Roger (d) None of them
Ans: (a)


Q25. For developing good habits and elimination of bad habits in the learners, this theory can be helpful.
(a) Sternberg’s information processing
(b) Atkinson–Shiffrin model
(c) Pavlov’s classical conditioning
(d) None of the above
Ans: (c)


Q26. Teacher should represent the learning material in such a way that it will bring satisfaction to the learner. This assumption is based upon the
(a) Law of effect (b) Law of readiness
(c) Law of exercise (d) None of the above
Ans: (a)


Q27. OCEAN theory is a
(a) Theory of perception
(b) Theory of personality
(c) Theory of intelligence
(d) None of the above
Ans: (b)


Q28. A child scolded by his teacher may hit his peers. This is an example of
(a) Regression (b) Phantasy
(c) Rationalization (d) None of the above
Ans: (d)


Q29. Each time the student answer a question, the teacher praises. Here question and praise are examples of
(a) Motivation and emotion
(b) Cognition and motivation
(c) The operant and the reinforce
(d) None of the above
Ans: (c)


Q30. This is not a technique of memory.
(a) Peg system
(b) Major system
(c) Method of Loci
(d) None of the above
Ans: (d)


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