Child Development and Pedagogy Quiz 24

Dear Readers,

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 attitude is

•  an emotionalised tendency organised through experience to react positively or negatively towards a psychological object
•  a characteristic that is symptomatic to the individual's ability to acquire with some specified training, some knowledge or skill in a given field
•  a potential ability of an individual of a specialised kind
•  None of the above

Solution
a characteristic that is symptomatic to the individual's ability to acquire with some specified training, some knowledge or skill in a given field

Q2. Every learner is unique means that

•  learners do not have any common qualities, nor do they share common goals
• a common curriculum for all learners is not possible
•  it is impossible to develop the potential of learners in a heterogeneous class
•  no two learners are alike in their abilities, interests and talents

Solution
no two learners are alike in their abilities, interests and talents

Q3.  Individual learners differ from each other in

•  rate of development
•  sequence of development
•  general capacity for development
•  principles of growth and development

Solution
rate of development

Q4. What should be the role of teacher in meeting the individual differences? 

•  Try to know the abilities, interest and aptitude of individuals
•  Try to adjust the curriculum as per the needs of individuals
•  All of the above
•  None of the above

Solution
Try to know the abilities, interest and aptitude of individuals

Q5.  Learners display individual differences. So, a teacher should

•  insist on uniform pace of learning
•  provide a variety of learning experiences
•  enforce strict discipline
•  increase number of tests

Solution
provide a variety of learning experiences

Q6. Seema learns every lesson very quickly but Leena takes longer to learn them. It denotes the developmental principle of

•  individual differences
•  inter-relationships
•  continuity
•  general to specific

Solution
individual differences

Q7. Schools should cater to individual differences to 

•  make individual students feel exclusive
•  narrow the gap between individual students
• even out abilities and performance of students
•  understand why students are able or unable to learn

Solution
understand why students are able or unable to learn

Q8. Differentiated instruction is 

•  using a variety of groupings to meet student needs
•  doing something different for every student in the class
•  disorderly or undisciplined student activity
•  using groups that never change

Solution
using a variety of groupings to meet student needs

Q9. The individual differences of students in a classroom are

•  disadvantageous as teachers need to control a diverse classroom
•  detrimental as they lead to student-student conflicts
•  inexpedient as they reduce the speed of the curriculum transaction to the level of the slowest student
•  advantageous as they lead teacher to explore a wider pool of cognitive structures

Solution
advantageous as they lead teacher to explore a wider pool of cognitive structures

Q10. The statement, "we have people amongst us, some who are tall and some who are short and some are fair and some others who are dark, some people are strong and some others are weak” is based on the established principle of

•  intelligence and sex differences
•  intelligence and racial differences
•  individual dissimilarity
•  individual advancement

Solution
individual dissimilarity