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Child Development

and

Pedagogy

Part - 2

Collected & Edited By

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1.When a child 'fails', it means

(a) the child has not memorized the answers properly

(b) the child should have taken private tuition

(c) the system has failed (Answer)

(d) the child is not fit for studies

2. Navodaya Schools have been established to

(a) increase number of school in rural areas

(b) provide good education in rural areas (Answer)

(c) complete ‘Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan’

(d) check wastage of education in rural areas

3. The emphasis from teaching to learning can be shifted by

(a) adopting child-centred pedagogy (Answer)

(b) encouraging rote learning

(c) adopting frontal teaching

(d) focusing on examination results

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4. Inclusive Education

(a) celebrates diversity in the classroom (Answer)

(b) encourages strict admission procedures

(c) includes indoctrination of facts

(d) includes teachers from marginalized groups

5. Which of the following is an objective question ?

(a) Short answer question (b) Open ended question

(c) True or False (Answer) (d) Essay type question

6. Which of the following is a feature of progressive education ?

(a) Instruction based solely on prescribed text-books

(b) Emphasis on scoring good marks in examinations

(c) Frequent tests and examinations (Answer)

(d) Flexible time-table and seating arrangement

7. A child has been admitted to your school who belongs to a back ward

family/background from the cultural viewpoint. You will

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(a) Keep him in a class in which, there are many more students of backward

background from the cultural viewpoint

(b) Send a teacher to know more about the backward cultural background of the

child

(c) Keep him in a normal class but will make special arrangements for teaching

him, keeping his special needs in view (Answer)

(d) Advise him to take up vocational education

8. Critical pedagogy firmly believes that

(a) the learners need not reason independently

(b) what children learn out of school is irrelevant

(c) the experiences and perceptions of learners are important (Answer)

(d) the teacher should always lead the classroom instruction

9. A teacher, after preparing a question paper, checks whether the questions test

specific testing objectives. He is concerned primarily about the question paper's

(a) content coverage (b) typology of questions

(c ) reliability (d) validity (Answer)

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10. School-based assessment is primarily based on the principle that

(a) teachers know their learners' capabilities better than external examiners

(Answer)

(b) students should at all costs get high grades

(c) schools are more efficient than external bodies of examination

(d) assessment should be very economical

11. Learners display individual differences. So a teacher should

(a) provide a variety of learning experiences (Answer)

(b) enforce strict discipline

(c) increase number of tests

(d) insist on uniform pace of learning

12. Which of the following is a principle of development?

(a) It does not proceed at the same pace for all (Answer)

(b) Development is always linear

(c) It is a discontinuous process

(d) All processes of development are not inter-connected

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13. Human development is divided into domains such as

(a) physical, cognitive, emotional and social

(b) emotional, cognitive, spiritual and social-psychological

(c) psychological, cognitive, emotional and physical (Answer)

(d) physical, spiritual, cognitive and social

14. A teacher uses a text and some pictures of fruits and vegetables and holds a

discussion

(a) Classical conditioning of learning

(b) Theory of reinforcement

(c) Operant conditioning of learning

(d) Construction of knowledge (Answer)

15. A child starts to cry when his grandmother takes him from his mother's lap.

The child

(a) Social anxiety (b) Emotional anxiety

(c) Stranger anxiety (d) Separation anxiety (Answer)

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16. In order to develop the spirit of labour in students

(1) The teacher himself should indulge in labour

(2) The teacher should deliver lectures on the importance of labour

(3) Students should be given opportunities to do labour from time to time

(answer)

(4) Students should be given examples of laboring people

17. The essential element of the syllabus for the children remained out of school

should be-

(1) Literacy competencies

(2) Life-skills

(3) Numerical competencies

(4) Vocational competencies (answer)

18. A child has been admitted to your school who belongs to a back ward

family/ background from the cultural viewpoint. You will

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(1) Keep him in a class in which, there are many more students of backward

background from the cultural viewpoint

(2) Send a teacher to know more about the backward cultural background of the

child

(3) Keep him in a normal class but will make special arrangements for teaching

him, keeping his special needs in view

(4) Advise him to take up vocational education(answer)

19. All of the following can be signs that a child is gifted, except

(1) Early development of a sense of time

(2) Interest in encyclopaedias and dictionaries

(3) Uneasy relationships with peers. (Answer)

(4) Easy retention of facts

20. If heredity is an important determinant of a specific behaviour, what

prediction can we make about expression of the behaviour in identical twins

reared apart compared to its expression in fraternal twins reared apart?

(1) Fraternal twins will express the behaviour more similarly than identical

twins.

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(2) There will be little similarity in the expression of the behaviour in either set

of twins.

(3) Identical twins will express the behaviour more similarly than fraternal

twins.(answer)

(4) The behaviour will be expressed as similarly by identical twins as it is by

fraternal twins.

21. Frobel’s most important contribution to education was his development of

the

(1) Vocational school (2) Public high school

(3) Kindergarten (Answer) (4) Latin School

22. A time bound testing programme for a students should be implemented in

Schools so that-

(1) The progress of the students should be informed to their parents

(2) A regular practice can be carried out

(3) The students can be trained for final examinations

(4) The remedial programme can be adopted on the basis of the feedback from

the results (answer)

23. Of the following, the main purpose of state certification of teachers is to

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(1) Monitor the quality of teacher training institutions

(2) Provide for a uniform standard of entry-level teacher competency throughout

the state (answer)

(3) Exclude from the profession those not trained in pedagogy

(4) Exclude from the profession those who are mentally unhealthy

24. The key difference between evolutionary and cultural change is that

evolutionary change alters __________ whereas cultural change alters

____________.

(1) Reproduction; environment

(2) Heredity; environment (answer)

(3) Environment; behavior

(4) Development; learning

25. The incorrectly associated pair is

(1) Joseph Lancaster –contract plan (answer)

(2) Benjamin Franklin-academy

(3) James B Conant –high school\

(4) Horace Mann –elementary education

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26. Which of the following forms of mental retardation is caused by the

presence of an extra chromosome?

(1) Down syndrome

(2) Cretinism (answer)

(3) PKU

(4) Cultural-familial retardation

27. The problem of drop-out in which students leave their schooling in early

years can be tackled in a better way through-

(1) Reduction of the weight of curriculum

(2) Sympathy of teachers

(3) Attractive environment of the school

(4) Encouragement of the students (answer)

28. The educator who advanced the idea of the five formal steps in leaving was:

(1) Rousseau

(2) Comenius

(3) Pestalozzi

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(4) Herbart (answer)

29. Monica is 9 years old and has always done things independently. However,

what her parents tend to find more bothersome is her total lack of concern about

their approval or disapproval of the things she does. Monica appears

(1) To have developed a healthy attachment to her parents.

(2) To have failed to develop an attachment to her parents. (answer)

(3) To be redefining her attachment with her parents.

(4) To be overly attached to her parents.

30. If a teacher does not know the answer to a question asked by a student what

he should do?

(1) Give a wrong answer to the students

(2) Admit his ignorance (answer)

(3) put off by promising to tell the next day

(4) Snub the student

31. Most important work of teacher is-

(1) to organize teaching work (answer)

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(2) to deliver lecture in class

(3) to take care of children

(4) to evaluate the students

32. Intelligence is largely heredity –

(1) True

(2) False

(3) To an extent (answer)

(4) Not valid

33. When male students in an experiment were told that a woman to whom they

would be speaking had been instructed to act in a friendly or unfriendly way,

most of them subsequently attributed her behavior to:

(1) The situation

(2) The situation and her personal disposition

(3) Her personal disposition (answer)

(4) Their own skill or lack of skill in a social situation

34. The emphasis from teaching to learning can be shifted by

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(1) adopting child-centered pedagogy (answer)

(2) encouraging rote learning

(3) adopting frontal teaching

(4) focusing on examination results

35. The 'doing' aspect of behaviour falls in the

(1) Cognitive domain of learning (answer)

(2) Affective domain if learning

(3) Conative domain of learning

(4) Psychological domain of learning

36. The most effective method to teach the concept of germination of seeds is

(1) to make the students plant seeds and observe stages of germination (answer)

(2) to draw pictures on the black-board and give descriptions

(3) to show pictures of seed growth

(4) to give detailed explanations

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37. All of the following advanced principles of child development that are

closely allied to the stimulus response learning theory, except

(1) Pavilov

(2) J B Waston

(3) Hull

(4) Gesell (answer)

38. Inclusive Education

(1) celebrates diversity in the classroom (answer)

(2) encourages strict admission procedures

(3) includes indoctrination of facts

(4) includes teachers from marginalized groups

39. Which of the following is true?

(1) Attitudes and behaviors rarely correspond

(2) Attitudes predict behavior about half the time.

(3) Attitudes are excellent predictors of behavior

(4) Attitudes predict behavior under certain conditions. (answer)

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40. Which of the following is an objective question?

(1) Short answer question

(2) Open ended question

(3) True or False (answer)

(4) Essay type question

41. Creativity is usually associated with

(1) Convergent thinking

(2) Divergent thinking (answer)

(3) Modelling

(4) Imitation

42. A high school teacher’s students did very poorly on the last exam. The

tendency to make the fundamental attribution error might lead the professor to

conclude that the class did poorly because:

(1) The test was unfair

(2) Not enough time was given for students to complete the test

(3) Students were distracted by some social function on campus

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(4) Students were unmotivated (answer)

43. Which of the following is a feature of progressive education?

(1) Instruction based solely on prescribed text – books

(2) Emphasis on scoring good marks in examinations

(3) Frequent tests and examinations

(4) Flexible time-table and seating (answer)

44. Heredity is determined by –

(1) Genes (answer) (2) Cells

(3) Neurons (4) Nature

45. A good teacher should have

I. Good personality II. Speaking power III. Good knowledge IV. Good behavior

(1) Only I and II

(2) Only III and IV

(3) Only I, II, IV

(4) All the four (answer)

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46. A teacher always helps her learners link the knowledge they have derived in

one subject area with the knowledge from other subject areas. This helps to

promote

(1) individual differences

(2) learner autonomy

(3) reinforcement

(4) correlation and transfer of knowledge (answer)

47. The process whereby the genetic factors limit an individual's responsiveness

to the environment is known as

(1) Canalization.

(2) Discontinuity.

(3) Differentiation.

(4) Range of reaction. (answer)

48. Critical pedagogy firmly believes that

(1) the learners need not reason independently

(2) what children learn out of school is irrelevant

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(3) the experiences and perceptions of learners are important (answer)

(4) the teacher should always lead the classroom instruction

49. In order to develop the spirit of labour in students

(1) The teacher himself should indulge in labour

(2) The teacher should deliver lectures on the importance of labour

(3) Students should be given opportunities to do labour from time to time

(answer)

(4) Students should be given examples of laboring people

50. School-based assessment is primarily based on the principle that

(1) teachers know their learners’ capabilities better than external examiners

(answer)

(2) Students should at all costs get high grades

(3) schools are more efficient than external bodies of examination

(4) assessment should be very economical

51. A child has been admitted to your school who belongs to a back ward

family/ background from the cultural viewpoint. You will

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(1) Keep him in a class in which, there are many more students of backward

background from the cultural viewpoint

(2) Send a teacher to know more about the backward cultural background of the

child

(3) Keep him in a normal class but will make special arrangements for teaching

him, keeping his special needs in view (answer)

(4) Advise him to take up vocational education

52. Learners display individual differences. So a teacher should

(1) provide a variety of learning experiences (answer)

(2) enforce strict discipline

(3) increase number of tests

(4) insist on uniform pace of learning

53. According to cognitive dissonance theory, dissonance is most likely to occur

when:

(1) A person’s behavior is not based on strongly held attitudes

(2) Two people have conflicting attitudes and find themselves in disagreement

(3) An individual chooses to do something that is personally disagreeable

(answer)

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(4) An individual is coerced into doing something that he or she does not want

to do

54. A student works hard to clear an entrance test for admission into a medical

college, the students is said to be motivated

(1) intrinsically (answer)

(2) extrinsically

(3) individually

(4) experientially

55. Which of the following do you think essential for the development of a

child?

(1) Participation in extra-curricular activities (answer)

(2) Hobbies to be pursued

(3) Good education

(4) Intelligence of the child

56. Which of the following is a principle of development?

(1) It does not proceed at the same pace for all (answer)

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(2) Development is always linear

(3) It is a discontinuous process

(4) All processes of development are not inter-connected

57. All of the following can be signs that a child is gifted, except

(1) Early development of a sense of time

(2) Interest in encyclopedias and dictionaries

(3) Uneasy relationships with peers. (answer)

(4) Easy retention of facts

58. Human development is divided into domains such as

(1) physical, cognitive, emotional and social

(2) emotional, cognitive, spiritual and social-psychological

(3) psychological, cognitive, emotional and physical (answer)

(4) physical, spiritual, cognitive and social

59. ‘Values are inherent in every human being’ is reflected in—

(A) Realism

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(B) Pragmatism

(C) Naturalism

(D) Idealism (Answer)

60. Development of human values which are universal in nature means—

(A) Indoctrination

(B) Adoption

(C) Imitation

(D) Manifestation (Answer)

61. Listening to the lectur

e delivered by the lecturer in the classroom is

A. Informative audition (Answer)

B. Assessed audition

C. Added audition

D. None of the above

62. In a classroom, ideal situation is that in which:

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1. The lecturer delivers his lecture with full confidence as he prepares himself

for the lecture before coming in the classroom.

2. Students come in the classroom with full. Preparedness and discuss with each

other on the subject in the presence of the lecturer.

3. Lecturer and the students discuss on the subject.

4. While delivering the lecture, the lecturer uses audio-visual means.

A. l and 3 (Answer)

B. 3 and 4

C. Only 2

D. Only. 4

63. In order to understand his students, a teacher should be well versed in which

of the following?

A. Child psychology

B. Inclination towards understanding the children

C. Opinion of the students towards the subject matter

D. All of the above (Answer)

64. The practical process of imparting education is:

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A. very credible, authentic and regular (Answer)

B. not credible

C. Credible but or regular

D. None of the above

65. Which method of teaching encourages the maximum use of knowledge?

A. Problem Solution Method

B. Laboratory Method (Answer)

C. Self-Study Method

D. Team-Study Method

66. Books and documents are the main Sources:

A. for data of Historical Research. (Answer)

B. for data of Participation Research.

C. for data of Medical Research.

D. data for Research going on Laboratory.

67. In which of the following important features is a open book exam 1ethod?

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A. Students remain serious.

B. If increases attendance in the class-room.

C. It reduces the worry of students related to examination.

D. It compels student for thinking. (Answer)

68 . Effective teacher is:

A. who has control over the class.

B. who can deliver more information in limited period.

C. who inspires students how to learn. (Answer)

D. Amends carefully the assignment.

69. It is said that a teacher in the classroom is a

(1) Speaker

(2) Leader (Answer)

(3) Friend

(4) Thinker

70. Some students are backward in studies. What will be your attitude towards

them?

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(1) Harsh

(2) Sympathetic (Answer)

(3) Liberal

(4) Lovable

71. For harmonious development of the personality of the child, parent should

(1) overprotect the child.

(2) regularly compare the child with other children.

(3) provide conducive environment at home. (Answer)

(4) engage qualified teachers.

72. Which of the following characteristics is most essential to make you a good

teacher?

(1) Sympathy for students. (Answer)

(2) Proficiency of language.

(3) Thoroughness of knowledge.

(4) Effective communication.

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73 Identify the main objective of teaching

(1) To give notes to students.

(2) To prepare students to pass the examinations.

(3) To prepare students for jobs.

(4) To develop the thinking power of students. (Answer)

74. Students achievement mainly depends on

(1) The use of good textbooks.

(2) The care taken by the parents.

(3) The teaching-learning process in the classroom. (Answer)

(4) The discipline imposed in the school.

75. I praise the teacher who ....

(1) has pleasing personality.

(2) is friendly with students.

(3) has strict control over the students.

(4) knows the problems of students and helps them. (Answer)

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76. Absenteeism in the class can be minimised by ...

(1) Teaching effectively and regularly. (Answer)

(2) Ignoring the fact of absenteeism.

(3) Punishing the students.

(4) Informing the parents.

77. The new millennium teacher is addressed as

(1) Guide

(2) Learning facilitator (Answer)

(3) Friend

(4) Philosopher

78. If a student is aggressive in the class, the teacher should ...

(1) Inform police.

(2) Inform the headmaster.

(3) Advise him properly. (Answer)

(4) Punish him.

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79. In the context of education, socialization means

(a) creating one's own social norms

(b) respecting elders in society

(c) adapting and adjusting to social environment (Answer)

(d) always following social norms

80. A school gives preference to girls while preparing students for a State level

solo-song competition. This reflects

(a) Global trends

(b) Pragmatic approach

(c) Progressive thinking

(d) Gender bias (Answer)

81. Vygotsky emphasized the significance of the role played by which of the

following factors in the learning of children ?

(a) Hereditary

(b) Moral

(c) Physical

(d) Social (Answer)

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82. A teacher makes use of a variety of tasks to cater to the different learning

styles of her learners. She is influenced by

(a) Kohlberg's moral development theory

(b) Gardner's multiple intelligence theory (Answer)

(c) Vygotsky's socio-cultural theory

(d) Piaget's cognitive development theory

83. A teacher never gives answers to questions herself. She encourages her

students to suggest answers, have group discussions and adopt collaborative

learning. This approach is based on the principle of

(a) proper organization of instructional material

(b) setting a good example and being a role-model

(c) readiness to learn

(d) active participation (Answer)

84. Which of the following is a teacher-related factor affecting learning?

(a) Proper seating arrangement (b) Availability of teaching -learning

resources

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(c) Nature of the content or learning experiences (d) Mastery over the

subject-matter (Answer)

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

(a) giving importance to religious teachings

(b) laying clear rules of' behaviour

(c) involving them in discussions on moral issues (Answer)

(d) giving strict instructions on 'how to behave'

86. Young learners should be encouraged to interact with peers in the classroom

so that

(a) they can learn answers to questions from each other

(b) the syllabus can be covered quickly

(c) they learn social skills in the course of study (Answer)

(d) the teacher can control the classroom better

87. When a child with a disability first comes to school, the teacher should

(a) refer the child to a special school according to the disability

(b) seclude him from other students

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(c) discuss with the child's parents to evolve collaborative plans (Answer)

(d) conduct an admission test

88. According to Piaget's stages of Cognitive Development, the sensori-motor

stage is associated with

(a) imitation, memory and mental representation (Answer)

(b) ability to solve problems in logical fashion

(c) ability to interpret and analyse options

(d) concerns about social issues

89. Human personality is the result of

(a) upbringing and education

(b) interaction between heredity and environment (Answer)

(c) only environment

(d) only heredity

90. Individual attention is important in the teaching - learning process because

(a) learners always learn better in groups

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(b) teacher training programmes prescribe it

(c) it offers better opportunities to teachers to discipline each learner

(d) children develop at different rates and learn 'differently (Answer)

91. Which of the following is the first step in the scientific method of problem-

solving?

(a) Verification of hypothesis

(b) Problem awareness (Answer)

(c) Collection of relevant information

(d) Formation of hypothesis

92. Which of the following is a domain of learning?

(a) Experiential (b) Affective(Answer) (c) Spiritual (d)

Professional

93. When a child gets bored while doing a task, it is a sign that

(a) the task may have become mechanically repetitive (Answer)

(b) the child is not intelligent

(c) the child is not capable of learning

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(d) the child needs to be disciplined

94. Errors of learners often indicate

(a) how they learn

(b) the need for mechanical drill (Answer)

(c) absence of learning

(d) socio-economic status of the learners

95. The process whereby the genetic factors limit an individual's responsiveness

to the environment is known as

(a) Discontinuity

(b) Differentiation

(c) Range of reaction (Answer)

(d) Canalization

96. The term 'Mnemonics' is associated with

(a) Memory (Answer)

(b) Amnesia

(c) cognitive behavior

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(d) Anaemia

97. Frobel’s most important contribution to education was his development of

the

(a) Public high school

(b) Latin School

(c) Vocational school

(d) Kindergarten(Answer)

98. 'Gang age' period refers to

(a) Infancy

(b) Preadolescent (Answer)

(c) Teen age

(d) Adult

99. If you find a child in your class who always isolates from the rest of the

class, you would ...

(a) ask the child to be normal by taking example of his classmates

(b) try to understand the underlying clause (Answer)

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(c) leave the child alone so that the child comes out of his own

(d) inform the management that his presence may effect other students of the

class.

100. All of the following can be signs that a child is gifted, except

(a) Interest in encyclopaedia and dictionaries

(b) Uneasy relationships with peers. (Answer)

(c) Early development of a sense of time

(d) Easy retention of facts