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Child Development and Pedagogy

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The temporary change in behaviour due to continuous exposure to stimuli is called _________.

  1. habituation

  2. learning

  3. temporary learning

  4. motivation

  5. none of these


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Habituation is a decrease in response to a stimulus after repeated presentations, which means that it only result into temporary change in behaviors due to continuous exposure to a stimuli.

The teachers should not use which of the following ways to change the attitudes of students?

  1. Coercive persuasion

  2. Repetition of idea or assertion

  3. Endorsement by an admired person

  4. Association of the message with a good feeling.

  5. None of these


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Coercive Power is the one that instils a fear in people to do some actions. It may also mean any power that influences a person emotionally rather than as a conscious choice. This is related to applying force to the student to change his attitude. Teacher should never try to follow this student might become of retaliating behaviour.

What is the meaning of the sentence 'child belonging to weaker section'?

  1. A child belonging to such parents whose annual income is low.

  2. A child belonging to such parents who come under the disadvantaged group.

  3. A child belonging to such parents who come under the category of below poverty line.

  4. A child belonging to such parents whose annual income is lower than the minimum limit specified by the appropriate government.

  5. None of these


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Goverment has specified a minimum income limit and children who are belonging to such parents whose annual income is lower than the minimum limit specified by the appropriate government are called as child belonging to weaker section

We face a specific psychosocial dilemma at each stage of life. This statement was given by ________.

  1. James Coleman

  2. Lawrence Kohlberg

  3. Erik Erikson

  4. Sigmund Freud

  5. None of these


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Erik Erikson has  divided life into 8 stages.

Stage one, First Year of Life: Trust vs Mistrust. Stage Two, 1-3 Years; Autonomy vs Shame and Doubt. Stage Three, 3-5 Years; Initiative vs Guilt. Stage Four, 6-12 Years: Industry vs Inferiority. Stage Five, Adolescence: Identity Versus Role Confusion. Stage Six, Young Adulthood: Intimacy Versus Isolation Stage Seven, Middle Adulthood: Generativity Versus Stagnation Stage Eight, Late Adulthood: Integrity Versus Despair.

The Right to Education Act, 2009 specifies that there will be more than 200 students admitted to classes from first to fifth. What will be the pupil- teacher ratio according to the act?

  1. Thirty

  2. Forty

  3. Forty five

  4. Twenty five

  5. Fifty


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

This means forty students per teacher and this is the correct ratio according to the act.

An example of a Developmental Disorder is _________.

  1. attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

  2. dyslexia

  3. mental retardation

  4. autistic spectrum disorders

  5. none of these


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

ASD (Autistic Spectrum Disorders) is a disorder of development that affects language, social skills and behaviour. Children with ASD are unable to interpret the world and what is happening around them in the same way that other children do. There is a range of severity and intellectual ability, from the severely impaired child with classical autism, to a child with Asperger syndrome or high-functioning autism Children with Asperger syndrome may have a high level of intelligence but have difficulty with social interaction.

Piaget's four stage of cognitive development explains how a child mentally develops from birth to adolescents. Which of the following is the key feature of these four stages?

  1. Each later stage incorporates, what develops in the previous stage.

  2. Some children skip over or abbreviate certain stages

  3. The stage do not necessarily happen in the same order

  4. Each stage is similar to the previous one

  5. None of these


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Sensori-motor period (from birth until age 2) Pre-operational stage (from 2-6 years) Concrete operational stage (6-12 years) Formal operational stage (12 years and up) Each of the stage is connected with the previous one.

The National Curriculum Framework, 2005 suggests, which of the following examination reforms?

  1. Class X examination optional

  2. State level exams to be conducted at different stages of school education

  3. Competitive entrance examinations optional

  4. Class XII examination optional

  5. All the above


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The National Curriculum Framework (NCF) - 2005 has recommended that the board should consider, as a long term measure, making the class 10 examination optional, thus permitting students to continue in the same school, Minister of State for Human Resource Development (HRD) D. Purandeswari told the Lok Sabha.

Which theory believes that human mind is mostly hidden like an iceberg and has three levels of consciousness?

  1. Trait theory

  2. Type theory

  3. Psychoanalytical theory

  4. Behaviourist theory

  5. None of these


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

According to Freud the human mind is like an iceberg. It is mostly hidden in the unconscious. He believed that the conscious level of the mind was similar to the tip of the iceberg which could be seen, but the unconscious was mysterious and was hidden. The unconscious also consists of aspects of personality of which a person is unaware. The conscious on the other hand is that which is within our awareness. The preconscious consists of that which is not in immediate awareness but is easily accessible. Sigmund Freud gave the concept of the Id, Ego, and Super Ego play in relation to conscious and unconscious thought. This thought usually represented by the Iceberg Model. 

A teacher explains complete lesson in class but does not give answer to the text book questions and encourages students to suggest answers, they have group discussions and adopt collective learning. This approach is based on ____________

  1. proper organization of instructional material

  2. setting a good example and being a role-model

  3. readiness to learn

  4. active participation

  5. all of these


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

This approach of teacher express that teacher wants all students to actively participate in class and learn collectively. this approach will help student to understand the lesson better and answer the question in more accurate way.

Which of the following behaviours is not a manifestation of emotional disturbance?

  1. Delinquency

  2. Bullying nature

  3. Truancy

  4. Autism

  5. None of these


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

A mental condition present from early childhood, characterized by great difficulty in communicating and forming relationships but this is not a manifestation of emotional disturbance.  

For primary school children, which of the following teaching aid is better ?

  1. Demostration

  2. Video simulation

  3. Hands-on-experiences

  4. Lectures

  5. All of these


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

This involves active particiaption and it is opposite to theoritical teaching in this type of teaching. childer will be able to touch and feel and be able to u understand the subject in better form. For example for teaching basic of computers to primary childer rather than demostrating them or teaching them theoriticall it is better to take students to computer lab and give them hand on experience.

The behaviour of an adolescents will most likely be guided by _______.

  1. parental conflicts

  2. religious beliefs

  3. peer influence

  4. cognative skills

  5. none of these


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Peers become an important influence on behaviour during adolescence and peer pressure has been called a hallmark of adolescent experience. Peer conformity in young people is most pronounced with respect to style, taste, appearance, ideology, and values. Peer pressure is commonly associated with episodes of adolescent risk taking (such as delinquency, drug abuse, sexual behaviors, and reckless driving because these activities commonly occur in the company of peers.

A school gives preference to girls while preparing students for a District level solo-dance competition. This reflects ____________.

  1. global trend

  2. pragmatic approach

  3. progressive approach

  4. gender biasness

  5. none of these


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Yes,  this is the correct answer. It is  gender bias because school is giving preference only to girl though boy and girls are equally good.

According to Vygotsky’s theory, it is best if teachers design educational programs that work _______________.

  1. just below a child’s zone of proximal development

  2. just above a child’s zone of proximal development

  3. within a child’s zone of proximal development

  4. against a child’s zone of proximal development

  5. none of these


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The structures being explained should be neither so easy that the child has already internalized them nor so difficult that the child cannot understand them. This optimal level of difficulty lies within what Vygotsky called the child’s zone of proximal development.

According to Kohlberg, a teacher can instill moral values in children by ______.

  1. giving more importance to religious education

  2. layering clear rules of behaviour

  3. involving them in discussion on moral issues

  4. giving strict instructions on how to behave

  5. none of these


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Discussing moral issue with students by way of telling them story will guide them the right path and inbuilt moral values in the students.

Children show more advanced cognitive processing when they are tested within contexts that are familiar and well practiced. This is one of the main points of the _________.

  1. socially shared cognition view

  2. guided participation view

  3. social speech view

  4. situated cognition view

  5. none of these


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The situated cognition view of cognitive development holds that thinking always takes place within a specific context, and always in relation to a particular problem, situation, or interaction.  According to this view you cannot really understand thought or its quality or level without also examining the context in which the thought takes place. For example, suppose you ask a first grader, “What is 4 divided by 2?” then he will probably be unable to answer. But give him four cookies and tell him to make sure that he and his brother both get the same number, and watch how quickly the boy solves the problem.

A teachers tries to involve her students in many group based activities such as group discussion, group project. What is the learning dimension is teacher trying to highlight?

  1. Learning while playing

  2. Development of competition among students

  3. Language guided learning

  4. Learning as social activity

  5. Learning with stress


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Teacher wants students to be socially active that means she wants them to learn to interact and work in a group,  and to imbibe this quality in students teacher is performing group activity with the students.

Kohlberg specifies that the thinking process involved in judgements about questions of right and wrong is _________.

  1. moral realism

  2. moral dilemma

  3. morality co-operation

  4. moral reasoning

  5. none of these


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Kohlberg defined moral reasoning as judgments about right and wrong. His studies of moral reasoning are based on the use of moral dilemmas, or hypothetical situations in which people must make a difficult decision. Kohlberg defined a subject's level of moral reasoning from the reasoning used to defend his or her position when faced with a moral dilemma. He thought this more important than the actual choice made, since the choices people make in such a dilemma are not  always clearly and indisputably right.

While children solve problem using trial and error, adolescents solve problems using more scientific method. This is due to development of _________.

  1. scientific method

  2. deductive reasoning

  3. personal fable

  4. ecocentricity

  5. none of these


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Deductive reasoning is a form of reasoning where two or more facts or assumptions are applied to a specific event. An example of this is: the sparrow lays eggs, based on knowing that all birds lay eggs, and that sparrows are a form of bird..

The statement 'Majority of the people are average, a few very bright and few very dull' is based on which of the following principles?

  1. Growth of intelligence

  2. Intelligence and sex differences

  3. Intelligence and racial differences

  4. Distribution of intelligence

  5. None of these


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The statement ' Majority of the people are average, a few very bright and few very dull' is based on the established principle of distribution of intelligence. As in the above statement level of  intelligence is distributed in average, bright and dull. As incase of any class room we can clearly observe that some of the students in class, score high who are bright students, some will score average and few will fail who are refered as dull students of the class.

According to Piaget, infants in the sensorimotor thought stage cannot _________.

  1. use sensory impressions to understand the world

  2. use motor action to understand the world

  3. form symbolic representations to understand the world

  4. display reflexes during the first month after birth

  5. infants in the sensorimotor stage can do all of these above things


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Infants develop the ability to use primitive symbols and form enduring mental representations. This stage is associated primarily with the beginnings of Insight or true creativity. This marks the passage into the preoperational stage.

A teacher is trying to include visually challenged learners and other learners of class in same group activity. What is teacher trying to do?

  1. Helping all the learners to develop sympathy towards the visually challenged learner.

  2. Likely to increase the stress on the visually challenged learner.

  3. Creating barriers to learning for the class.

  4. Acting according to the spirit of inclusive education

  5. None of these


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Teacher want to remove barrier between special children and normal children . Teacher want them to learn and participate collectively.

Inclusive education refers to a school education system that ____________.

  1. includes children with disability

  2. includes children regardless of physical, intellectual, social, linguistic, or other differently abled conditions

  3. encourages education of children with special needs through exclusive schools

  4. emphasizes the need to promote the education of the girl child only

  5. groups students according to ability


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

In inclusive education, children regardless of physical, intellectual, social, linguistic, or other differently abled conditions get educated under the same platform. Such schools do not diffrentiate students and educate all children together.

According to Vygotsky, children’s thought structures develop from _________.

  1. the language they hear around them

  2. their attempts to modify their own internal schemes

  3. their own experimentation with characteristics in the environment

  4. the biological maturation of their nervous system

  5. all the above


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The central theme in Vygotsky’s theory is that children acquire cognitive structures from their culture and from their social interactions, primarily by listening to the language they hear around them.

Social speech is the speech that we hear as people talk around us. According to Vygotsky, children adopt important parts of social speech and make it their own private speech—the speech children say aloud to themselves.

A student works hard to clear an entrance test for admission to an engineering college. The student is said to be motivated _________.

  1. intrinsically

  2. extrinsically

  3. individually

  4. experimentally

  5. none of these


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Extrinsic motivation refers to the performance of an activity in order to attain an outcome, whether or not that activity is also intrinsically motivated. Extrinsic motivation comes from outside of the individual. Common extrinsic motivations are rewards (for example money or grades) for showing the desired behaviour, and the threat of punishment following misbehaviour. Competition is in an extrinsic motivator because it encourages the performer to win and to beat others, not simply to enjoy the intrinsic rewards of the activity.

According to Piaget's cognitive theory of learning the process, which is used to understand existing knowledge to deal with a new object or situation is called __________.

  1. assimilation

  2. schema

  3. equilibrium

  4. accommodation

  5. none of these


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Assimilation is using an existing knowledge or schema to deal with or understand a new object or situation.  For example A 2 year old child sees a man who is bald on top of his head and has long frizzy hair on the sides. To his father horror, the toddler shouts Clown, clown.

Terman showed that mentally gifted children ________.

  1. have a greater susceptibility to mental illness in adulthood

  2. score in the average IQ range as adults

  3. are successful during their youth but fail to reach their potential in adulthood

  4. are generally successful in their chosen occupations as adults

  5. none of these


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The Terman Study showed that gifted children grow up to become gifted adults, and that they tend to be  successful, well-adjusted, and long-lived.... healthier, wealthier, and wiser. They are  taller and better-looking, on average, and they are an invitation to uncomfortable comparisons for the rest of us. It is  hard not to feel competitive with them, and at a competitive disadvantage. The above statemen by Terman indeed specifies that gifted children are generally successful in their chosen occupations as adults

Errors of the students must be studied by the teachers for which of the following reason?

  1. To know extent of puplis knowledge

  2. To find out remedial strategies needed

  3. To find pathways for ability grouping

  4. To check the need for differentiated curriculum

  5. All of these


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Each pupil is different in terms of learning ability, academic standards, classroom learning and academic performance, and each has his own in learning. By adapting school curriculam and teaching strategies, teachers can provide learning activities and practical experiences to students according to their abilities and needs. They can also design individualized educational programmes with intensive remedial support to help pupils consolidate their basic knowledge in different subjects, master the learning methods, strengthen their confidence and enhance the effectiveness of learning.

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