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1. Creative writing should be an activity planned for

A. Only those children reading on grade level

B. Only those children spell and write cohesive sentences

C. Only those children who want to write for newspaper

D. All children

2. The cognitive structures into which children organize their behaviour and knowledge are called

A. Accommodations

B. Framework

C. Operations

D. Schemata

3. Which is the place where the child’s cognitive development is defined in the best way?

A. Playground

B. School and Classroom

C. Auditorium

4. Environmental education should be taught in schools because—

A. it will affect environmental pollution

B. it is important part of life

C. it will provide job to teachers

D. we cannot escape from environment

5. Development of a learner is linked to:

A. Affective development

B. Cognitive development

C. Psychomotor development

D. Sensorimotor development

6. It is good to give homework, so that students …………..

A. remain busy at home

B. study at home

C. may be checked for their progress

D. may develop habit of self-study

7. What is meant by development?

A. It is the growth of heart, brain and muscles.

B. It is improvement of the ability.

C. It is the quantitative change of the child.

D. it is a complex process of integrating many structures and functions.

8. Areas/sources of information for psychological foundation are:

A. Learning process

B. Teaching method

C. Student characteristics

D. All of the above

9. On which animal Pavlov conducted his experiment

A. Rat

B. Cat

C. Dog

D. Bird

10. Types of individual differences are:

A. Mental

B. Physical

C. Emotional

D. All of the above

12. Spearman’s ‘G ‘ factor of Intelligence is:

A. universal and inborn ability

B. constant and does not change in an individual with time

C. different in different individuals depending on their genes

D. all of the above

13. Experimental designs are characterized by:

A. Normative data

B. Controlled conditions

C. Automated Stimulation

D. All of the above

14. Who among the following propounded ‘socialism’ in education?

A. Russell

B. Dewey

C. Sartre

D. Stalin

15. Security of attachment to mother is typically measured by:

A. Separation-reunion procedure

B. Observation of mother-infant play

C. Questionnaire

D. All of the above

16. Cognition can be stated as……………….

A. Feeling

B. Knowing

C. Willing

D. Doing

17. The mirror-rouge task measures:

A. An infant’s ability to touch his/her nose

B. An infant’s understanding of self

C. An infant’s recognition of his/her mother

D. All of the above

18. What is teaching through deductive method?

A. From specific to general

B. From general to specific

C. From easy to difficult

D. From macro to micro

19. The first sense to develop is:

A. Touch

B. Hearing

C. Sight

D. Taste

20. Both ‘X’ and ‘Y’ chromosomes are found in:

A. Brain cells

B. Females

C. Male

D. None of these

21. Who gives more stress to the philosophy of social constructivism?

A. Piaget

B. Kohlberg

C. Vygotsky

D. Dewey

22. The reinforcement schedule that yields the lowest performance is the:

A. Fixed ratio schedule

B. Variable ratio schedule

C. Fixed interval schedule

D. Variable interval schedule

23. Select “the educable” group of students from the following groups, indicating different I.Q. levels

A. 50 to 70

B. 30 to 50

C. 70 to 90

D. 40 to 80

24. “Give me a dozen of healthy children I can make them Doctor, Judge, Beggar and even a Thief” – Comment made by

A. Jung

B. Guthrie

C. J.B. Watson

D. Hull

25. Who is regarded as the first teacher of a child?

A. Headmaster

B. Class Teacher

C. Mother

D. Tutor

26. Diagnostic evaluation ascertains

A. Students performance at the beginning of instructions

B. Learning progress and failures during instructions.

C. Degree of achievements of instructions at the end.

D. Causes and remedies of persistent learning problems during instructions.

27. How many stages of cognitive development recommended by Piaget?

A. Seven Stages

B. Six Stages

C. Four Stages

D. Two Stages

28. Dyslexia is associated with

A. mental disorder

B. behavioural disorder

C. reading disorder

D. writing disorder

29. Child growth as proceeding through an organized sequence of stages divided roughly by age in view of________

A. Kohlberg

B. Piaget

C. Vygotsky

D. Skinner

30. The black-board can be utilized best by a teacher for

A. Putting the matter of teaching in black and white

B. Making the students attentive

C. Writing the important and notable points

D. Highlighting the teacher himself

31. RTE stands to

A. Right to Education

B. Right True Education

C. Right Time Education

D. Rurally True Education

32. Interaction inside the classroom should generate

A. Argument

B. Information

C. Ideas

D. Controversy

33. The development that proceeds in the direction of the longitudinal axis i.e. head to foot is termed as………

A. Cephalo-caudal development

B. Proximo distal

C. Interrelation

D. Integration

34. For maintaining an effective discipline in the class, the teacher should

A. Allow students to do what they like.

B. Deal with the students strictly.

C. Give the students some problem to solve.

D. Deal with them politely and firmly.

35. The greatest technique to review progress and improvement of the kid is–

A. Psychoanalytic Method

B. Comparative Method

C. Developmental Method

D. Statistical Method

36. The academic performance of students can be improved if parents are encouraged to

A. supervise the work of their wards

B. arrange for extra tuition

C. remain unconcerned about it

D. interact with teachers frequently

37. “A Child can think logically about objects and events”. This is the characteristic given by Piaget of stage….

A. Sensory Motor

B. Pre Operational

C. Concrete Operational

D. Formal Operation

38. A successful teacher is one who is

A. Compassionate and disciplinarian

B. Quite and reactive

C. Tolerant and dominating

D. Passive and active

39. Gardner formulated a list of Seven Intelligences, which among the following is not one of them?

A. Spatial Intelligence

B. Emotional Intelligence

C. Interpersonal Intelligence

D. Linguistic Intelligence

40. Which of the following does not specify Max Weber’s concept of social stratification?

A. Income and Wealth

B. Social Prestige

C. Educational Status

D. Political Power

41. Who was the pioneer of Classical Conditioning?

A. Skinner

B. Pavlov

C. Watson

D. Thorndike

42. “Things as they are and as they are likely to be encountered in life rather than words”, was the slogan of the

A. Idealists

B. Pragmatists

C. Realists

D. Existentialists

43. If any girl child does not come to school regularly you will

A. no bother

B. struck off her name

C. complain to the Principal

D. meet the parents and encourage them

44. ‘Project is a whole-hearted purposeful activity proceeding on a social environment”, it was defined by

A. Adamson

B. John Dewey

C. Kilpatrick

D. Ballard

45. Which of the following is not related to educational achievement?

A. Heredity

B. Experiences

C. Practice

D. Self-learning

46. ‘Coherence’ is the criterion of truth is

A. Naturalism

B. Existentialism

C. Idealism

D. Marxism

47. Education of children with special needs should be provided

A. along with other normal children

B. by methods developed for special children, in special schools

C. in special school

D. by special teachers in special schools

48. Who emphasized that the aim of education should be the development in children the feeling of international brotherhood and attitude of international understanding?

A. Rousseau

B. Dewey

C. Tagore ✔

D. Mahatma Gandhi

49. Special education is related to–

A. Educational for talented students

B. Educational programmes for disabled

C. Training programmes for Teachers

D. Training programme for retarded

50. The family imparts education to the child

A. Regularly

B. Formally

C. Informally

D. Deliberately

51. The most important trait of a student is—

A. sense of responsibility

B. to speak truth

C. co-operation

D. obedience

52. The child who reads numbers wrongly has the following learning disability

A. Dyslexia

B. Dyscrasia

C. Dyscalculia

D. Dyspepsia

53. Which of the following is correctly arranged?

A. Encoding – retrieval – storage

B. Encoding – storage – retrieval

C. Storage – encoding – retrieval

D. Retrieval – encoding – storage

54. That the mind of an infant is a tabula rasa is the contribution of:

A. J.J Rousseau

B. John Locke

C. Plato

D. Horace Man

55. What should be the role of teachers in meeting the individual differences?

A. Try to know the abilities, interest and aptitude of individuals

B. Try to adjust the curriculum as per the needs of individuals

C. Both (A) and (B)

D. None of these

56. Kindergarten (KG) system of education is indebted to

A. Spencer

B. Froebel

C. Dewey

D. Plato

57. Who are responsible for the development of traits?

A. Parents

B. Cells

C. Genes

D. Gametes

58. ‘Cultural Lag’ is the term used by

A. Pyne

B. Marx

C. Weber

D. Ogburn

59. Performance tests are termed as…………………

A. Verbal tests

B. Non-verbal tests

C. Projective tests

D. Subjective tests

60. In a kindergarten class it would be unreasonable to expect a child to:

A. care for plants

B. clean up after clay work

C. bring an old shirt for painting activities

D. know when it is time to clean up ✔

61. Suppose fourteen years old girl has taken to wearing the same style sweaters that her teacher wears, then this form of behaviour is known as

A. Compensation

B. Regression

C. Identification

D. Egocentrism

62. The idea of Four Pillars of Education was suggested by

A. UGC

B. NCTE

C. UNESCO

D. UNICEF

63. A stimulus that elicits a response before the experimental manipulation is a (an):

A. Response stimulus

B. Unconditioned stimulus

C. Generalized stimulus

D. Conditioned stimulus

64. ‘Trial & Error’ theory of learning was given by:

A. Freud

B. Thorndike

C. Thurston

D. Bandura

65. The aim of all life is death’, this quote from Siemund Freud’s work refers to:

A. Thanatos

B. Eros

C. The struggle between Eros and Thanatos

D. The death instinct

66. Which of the following statements about teaching aids are not correct?

A. They help in retaining concepts for longer duration

B. They help students learn better

C. They make teaching learning process interesting

D. They enhance rote learning

67. Which of the following is not a prescribed level of teaching?

A. Memory

B. Understanding

C. Reflective

D. Differentiation

68. Effective teaching is a function of

A. Teacher’s satisfaction.

B. Teacher’s honesty and commitment

C. Teacher’s making students learn and understand

D. Teacher’s liking for professional excellence

69. A person can enjoy teaching as a profession when he

A. has control over students.

B. commands respect from students.

C. is more qualified than his colleagues.

D. is very close to higher authorities.

70. Classical conditioning is based in the idea of learning by

A. Association

B. Insight

C .Imitation

D. Cognition

71. Which of the following is not a characteristic of a good achievement test?

A. Reliability

B. Objectivity

C. Ambiguity ✔

D. Validity

72. What is the aim of education?

A. All round development of the personality of a child.

B. Moral development of a child.

C. Ability to read, write and do arithmetic.

D. To gain knowledge.

73. Suppose a student wants to share his problems with his teacher and he visits the teacher’s house for the purpose, the teacher should

A. contact the student’s parents and solve his problem.

B. suggest him that he should never visit his house.

C. suggest him to meet the principal and solve the problem.

D. extend reasonable help and boost his morale.

74. “In youth we learn in age, we understand”. What does this statement indicate?

A. Relationship of learning with age.

B. Learning stops with adulthood.

C. In youth our understanding is better.

D. There is no learning in childhood.

75. On the first day of his class, if a teacher is asked by the students to introduce himself, he should

A. ask them to meet after the class

B. tell them about himself in brief

C. ignore the demand and start teaching

D. scold the student for this unwanted demand

76. Who said “children have innate inclination to imitate their seniors, both in mental and social development”?

A. Lindzey

B. Festinger

C. Espinas

D. Baldwin

77. The primary responsibility for the teacher’s adjustment lies with

A. The children

B. The principal

C. The teacher himself

D. The community

78. What do you understand by the term Peer Group?

A. People of same profession

B. Friends and acquaintances

C. Family members and relatives

D. All of these

79. Who said this “Education is man making. It is that by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, intellect is expanded and by which man can stand on his own feet”?

A. Tagore

B. Vivekananda

C. Dayanand Saraswati

D. None of these

80. The rate of habituation is an indication of:

A. Memory

B. Fundamental cognitive processes

C. Brain integrity

D. All of the above

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