TNTET Paper 1 2019 Child Development and Pedagogy Quiz (Questions 1-30) 2019 English medium

Zeal study TNET paper 1 Child Development and Pedagogy Quiz (Questions 1-30)

1. _____ memory consists of the unusual memory traces concerning one's previous life or lives that can be partly or completely retrieved.

(A) Photographic (B) Episodic (C) Paranormal (D) Iconic

2. A child knows that adding -ed to certain words puts them in the past tense. As a result, instead of saying "He came" the child says "He camed". This is an example of:

(A) Babbling (B) Telegraphic speech (C) Over generalisation (D) Lesser generalisation

3. _____ refers to a process in which regions of one's life space are subdivided into smaller but distinct areas and regions in the life space of the smaller children.

(A) Motivation (B) Differentiation (C) Generalization (D) Memory

4. In Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC), which one of the following is not a subtest under verbal test?

(A) Coding (B) Digit span (C) Similarities (D) Comprehension

5. _____ is a technique of problem solving that involves considering all possible solutions without making prior evaluative judgements.

(A) Mnemonics (B) Algorithm (C) Chunking (D) Brainstorming

6. _____ states that, behaviour that occurs at a naturally high rate of frequency maybe used to reinforce behaviour that occurs at a naturally low rate of frequency.

(A) Hawthrone effect (B) Premack principle (C) Halo effect (D) Conditioning

7. In Torrance's _____ test the subject is presented with a picture and asked to think of as many questions as he can, that would help to better understand the event presented in the picture.

(A) Pass-along test (B) Jigsaw puzzle test (C) Ask and guess test (D) Picture completion test

8. Which of the following doesn't measure the level of intelligence of an individual?

(A) The speed at which he does (B) The difficulty of the task he can perform (C) The harder the task a person can perform (D) The variety of task he can perform

9. In _____ the learners tend to respond fairly rapidly for long periods of time because the occurrence of reinforcement is so unpredictable.

(A) Fixed interval schedule (B) Variable interval schedule (C) Fixed ratio schedule (D) Variable ratio schedule

10. 9 year old children have placed 'fruits' together. According to Bruner, what's the term that is used to describe the concept?

(A) Characteristic (B) Name (C) Label (D) Colour

11. _____ were the originators of the learning curve.

(A) Crow-Crow (B) Bryan and Harter (C) Peel and Marx (D) Biggi and Hunt

12. At this age the heart beat of foetus becomes audible, during pregnancy:

(A) After 12 weeks (B) After 14 weeks (C) After 18 weeks (D) After 20 weeks

13. Ravi says that 10 biscuits bunched together are less than when they are spread out. As per Piaget what may be his stage?

(A) Concrete operational stage (B) Pre-operational stage (C) Sensory motor stage (D) Formal operational stage

14. The tendency to recall information learned in a particular physiological situation more accurately when one is again in that physiological stand is:

(A) Motivated interactive learning (B) Interference (C) Consolidation (D) State-dependent learning

15. There has been a growing tendency to view effective instruction as synonymous with direct instruction, as a result of _____ of teaching.

(A) Meta-analysis (B) Content-analysis (C) Classroom analysis (D) Verbal analysis

16. _____ is the moral arm of the personality according to Freud's theory.

(A) Ego (B) Id (C) Super ego (D) Conscious

17. _____ is a person's inability to perceive how an object can function in ways other than its stated or usual application.

(A) Functional disability (B) Functional fixedness (C) Functional apperception (D) Functional immobility

18. According to _____ 'Psychology is the positive science of behaviour'.

(A) Charles F. Skinner (B) J.B. Watson (C) Charak (D) James Drever

19. _____ stage of cognitive development marks the emergence of symbolic functions and the use of language as a means of representing environmental events and objects.

(A) Sensori motor (B) Concrete operational (C) Pre-operational (D) Formal operational

20. _____ coined the phrase 'learning set' to describe the phenomenon of learning how to learn.

(A) Alfred Binet (B) B.F. Skinner (C) E.L. Thorndike (D) Harry Harlow

21. At the pre-operational stage children have the strong tendency to focus attention on only one characteristics of an object or aspect of a problem or event at a time known as:

(A) Perceptual centration (B) Irreversibility (C) Conservation problem (D) Ego centrism

22. The storage capacity of short-term memory is:

(A) 6±2 chunks (B) 4±2 chunks (C) 5±2 chunks (D) 7±2 chunks

23. Choose the appropriate intelligence test for a class I student.

(A) Choose the odd man out (B) Name the countries around India (C) Complete the series 1, 4, 7, ... (D) Why are nights darker?

24. GATB consist of:

(A) 4 paper-pencil test and 8 simple equipments (B) 4 paper-pencil test and 6 simple equipments (C) 6 paper-pencil test and 8 simple equipments (D) 8 paper-pencil test and 4 simple equipments

25. When comparing children's and adult's emotions, it is much harder for an adult to become emotional than it is for children. This maybe referred to:

(A) Strength (B) Heightened emotionality (C) Ease of onset (D) Expressiveness

26. 10 year city bred Arun sees a cow for a first time. According to Wisconsin in which level is he in the 4 levels of concept attainment?

(A) Concrete (B) Identity (C) Formal (D) Classifactory

27. Short-term memory can hold about seven unrelated bits of information for about _____ seconds.

(A) 10 (B) 20 (C) 30 (D) 40

28. In language learning _____ refers to the concentration of a particular brain function in one hemisphere.

(A) Lateralization (B) Organization (C) Visualization (D) Generalization

29. In Piaget's learning interaction 'equilibration' is a dynamic process that attempts to reduce:

(A) Accommodation (B) Animism (C) Object permanence (D) Dissonance

30. In an experiment, equal amount of clay is added to equal balls of clay, one ball is rolled to a stick. What ability of a 5 year old does this experiment determine?

(A) To conserve (B) To transform (C) To focus (D) To arrange

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