Child Development and Pedagogy Quiz 16

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CTET Child Development and Pedagogy is an important subject in CTET & other TET Exam. In any of teaching exam, CDP carries weightage of 30-40 %  of questions, with focused practice good marks can be fetched from this section. These questions are very important in achieving your success in CTET and Other TET Exams.

Q1. The amount and type of scaffolding to a child would change depending on the

•  mood of the teacher
•  child's innate abilities
•  rewards offered for the task
•  level of the child's performance

Solution
level of the child's performance

Q2. The teacher noticed that Pushpa cannot solve a problem on her own. However, she does so in the presence of adult or peer guidance. This guidance is called 

•  lateralisation
•  pre-operational thinking
•  zone of proximal development
•  scaffolding

Solution
scaffolding

Q3.  Fitting new information into existing schemas is known as

•  accommodation
•  equilibration
•  assimilation
• organisation

Solution
assimilation

Q4. According to Piaget's theory which one out of the following will not influence cognitive development?

•  Language
•  Social experiences
•  Maturation
•  Activity

Solution
Social experiences

Q5.  In Lawrence Kohlberg's theory which level signifies the absence of morality in the true sense?

•  Level II
•  Level IV
•  Level I
•  Level II

Solution
Level I

Q6. The stage of cognitive development, according to Piaget, in which child displays 'object permanence' is

•  sensorimotor stage
•  pre-operational stage
•  concrete operational stage
•  formal operational stage

Solution
sensorimotor stage

Q7. "Thought not only determines language, but also precedes it” was an idea put forward by

• Vygotsky
•  Pavlov
•  Jean Piaget
•  Kohlberg

Solution
Jean Piaget

Q8. According to the pre-conventional level of Kohlberg's theory, to which of the following would an individual turn when making a moral decision? 

•  Personal needs and desires
•  Individual values
•  Family expectations
•  Potential punishment involved
  
  

Solution
Potential punishment involved

Q9. Which one of the following statements about children would Vygotsky agree with?

•  Children learn when they are offered lucrative rewards
•  hildren's thinking can be understood by conducting
•  Children are born evil and need to be controlled through punishment
•  Children learn though interaction with peers and adults

Solution
Children learn though interaction with peers and adults

Q10. When adults adjust to the assistance they provide to facilitate progression of the child from current level of performance to potential level of performance, it is called

•  Scaffolding
•  Participatory learning
•  Collaborative learning
•  Proximal development

Solution
Scaffolding