Child Development and Pedagogy Questions Set

Q1. What type of evaluation identifies learning deficiencies and difficulties of the learner?
(a) Placement (b) Summative
(c) Continuous (d) Diagnostic
Ans: (d)


Q2. Which is different from the other three with respect to fine Motor Movement?
(a) Dot joining
(b) Dictation
(c) Handwriting
(d) Separation of fruits and vegetables.
Ans: (d)


Q3. The field of study concerned with the construction of thought processes including remembering problem solving and decisionmaking is called.
(a) Pedagogy
(b) Education
(c) Epistemology
(d) Cognitive Development
Ans: (d)


Q4. The more often a particular ability is used the ……. it become
(a) Weaker (b) Stronger
(c) Less important (d) More important
Ans: (b)


Q5. Children are usually egocentric during ……… and stages.
(a) Sensorimotor, Preoperational
(b) Formal Operational, Sensorimotor
(c) Preoperational, Concrete Operational
(d) Concrete Operational, Formal Operational
Ans: (a)


Q6. Which class of learners are not included under ”Exceptional category”?
(a) Slow (b) Retarded
(c) Normal (d) Gifted
Ans: (c)


Q7. The more parts of your brain you use, the more likely you are to ………….. information.
(a) Use (b) Miss
(c) Retain (d) Misuse
Ans: (c)


Q8. We calculate average marks of a student in the way as we calculate
(a) Variance (b) Arithmetic mean
(c) Geometric mean (d) Standard deviation
Ans: (b)


Q9.
12. Toy age refers to
(a) Early Childhood (b) Late Childhood
(c) Babyhood (d) All of these
Ans: (a)


Q10. Which of the following statements is not appropriate to motivation as a process?
(a) It causes a person to move towards a goal
(b) It satisfies the persons biological needs
(c) It helps in achieving a psychological ambition
(d) It keeps away from an unpleasant situation.
Ans: (d)


Q11. A child writes with his/her left hand and is comfortable doing things with it, she/he should be
(a) Discouraged
(b) Made to write with the left hand
(c) Allow his preference
(d) Send to seek medical help
Ans: (c)


Q12. Which of the following is NOT a sign of being gifted?
(a) Curiosity
(b) Creativity
(c) Poor relationship with peer
(d) Interest in extra reading
Ans: (c)


Q13. Single factor theory of intelligence was given by
(a) Alfred Binet (b) Thorndike
(c) Freeman (d) None of these
Ans: (a)


Q14. Who is the father of ”Theory of Multiple Intelligence”?
(a) Gardner (b) Vygotsky
(c) Bruner (d) Piaget
Ans: (a)


Q15. Who gives more stress to the philosophy of social constructivism?
(a) Piaget (b) Kohlberg
(c) Vygotsky (d) Dewey
Ans: (c)


Q16. The best place of social development for a 12 years old child is ………….
(a) Neighbourhood (b) Family
(c) Playground (d) School
Ans: (c)


Q17. Select ”the educable” group of students from the following group, indicating difference I.Q. level
(a) 50 to 70 (b) 30 to 50
(c) 70 to 90 (d) 40 to 80
Ans: (a)


Q18.
21. IQ Scores are generally …………..correlated with academic performance
(a) Least (b) Perfectly
(c) Highly (d) Moderately
Ans: (c)


Q19. Nature of children are like
(a) Imitative (b) Constructive
(c) Imaginative (d) Destructive
Ans: (a)


Q20. Theory of multiple intelligence implies the following except
(a) Intelligence is a distinct set of processing operations used by an individual to solve problems
(b) Disciplines should be presented in a number of ways
(c) Learning could be assessed through a veriety of means
(d) Emotional intelligence is not related to I.Q
Ans: (d)


Q21. Adolescents may experience
(a) Feeling of self-actualization
(b) Feeling of satiation about life
(c) Anxiety and concern about themselves
(d) Feeling of fear about sins committed in childhood.
Ans: (a)


Q22. The raw material of thinking is
(a) Symbols (b) Semantics
(c) Man (d) Child
Ans: (a)


Q23. What is the unit of Heredity?
(a) Chromosome (b) Gene
(c) Fertilized cell (d) Zygote
Ans: (b)


Q24. …………is the ratio of mental age to be chronological age multiplied by 100.
(a) Emotional quotient
(b) Intelligence quotient
(c) Both
(d) None of these
Ans: (b)


Q25.
28. Which of the following is not product of learning?
(a) Skill (b) Knowledge
(c) Maturation (d) Physical structure
Ans: (c)


Q26. What is meant by Scheme?
(a) Chunking mechanism
(b) Learning techniques
(c) Organized packets of information stored in long term memory
(d) Defense mechanisms.
Ans: (c)


Q27. Smallest unit of meaning in a language is
(a) Syntax (b) Morpheme
(c) Pragmatics (d) Phoneme
Ans: (b)


Q28. According to the…………, the more you do something, the better you are it.
(a) Law of effect
(b) Law of exercise
(c) Law of readiness
(d) Law of connectionism
Ans: (b)


Q29. The…………..says, we are motivated to gain rewards and avoid punishments
(a) Law of effect
(b) Law of exercise
(c) Law of readiness
(d) Law of connectionism
Ans: (a)


Q30. The study of the physical, social and mental aspects of aging is called
(a) Genetics
(b) Esthetics
(c) Gerontology
(d) Clinical psychology
Ans: (c)


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