Child Development Test

Child Development

This is Child Development Test-26 for CTET, Central Teacher Eligibility Test conducted by CBSE.. There are 15 questions in this test with each question having around four answer choices.

Questions & Answers

1
Students observe fashion shows and try to imitate models. This kind of imitation may be called
  • A
    Social learning
    Correct
  • B
    Primary simulation
  • C
    Generalization
  • D
    Secondary simulation
2
If students repeatedly make errors during a lesson, a teacher should
  • A
    Leave the lesson for the time being and come back to it after some time.
  • B
    Make changes in instruction, tasks, timetable or seating arrangement.
    Correct
  • C
    Make erring students stand outside the classroom.
  • D
    Identify the erring students and talk to principal about them.
3
Following are some techniques to manage anxiety due to an approaching examination; except
  • A
    Familiarizing with the pattern of question paper.
  • B
    Seeking support.
  • C
    Thinking too much about the result.
    Correct
  • D
    Emphasizing strengths.
4
Bloom’s taxonomy is a hierarchical organization of _____________.
  • A
    Curricular declarations
  • B
    Cognitive objectives
    Correct
  • C
    Achievement goals
  • D
    Reading skills
5
A, B and C are three students studying English. ‘A’ finds it interesting and thinks it will be helpful for her in future. ‘B’ studies English as she wants to secure first rank in the class. ‘C’ studies it as she is primarily concerned to secure passing grades. The goal of A, B and C respectively are
  • A
    Mastery, Performance Avoidance, Performance
  • B
    Performance, Performance Avoidance, Mastery
  • C
    Performance Avoidance, Mastery, Performance
  • D
    Mastery, Performance, Performance Avoidance
    Correct
6
Even though this was clearly in violation of his safety needs, Captain Vikram Batra died fighting in the Kargil War while protecting his country. He might have
  • A
    Ignored his belongingness needs.
  • B
    Wanted to earn a good name to his family.
  • C
    Achieved self-actualisation
    Correct
  • D
    Sought novel experience.
7
Extinction of a response is more difficult following
  • A
    Verbal reproach
  • B
    Partial reinforcement
    Correct
  • C
    Punishment
  • D
    Continuous reinforcement
8
Mastery orientation can be encouraged by
  • A
    Taking unexpected tests.
  • B
    Comparing students’ successes with each other.
  • C
    Focusing on students’ individual effort.
    Correct
  • D
    Assigning lot of practice material as home assignments.
9
Which one of the following is correctly matched?
  • A
    Physical Development – Environment
  • B
    Social Development – Environment
    Correct
  • C
    Emotional Development – Maturation
  • D
    Cognitive Development – Maturation
10
All the following facts indicate that a child is emotionally and socially fit in a class except
  • A
    Manage both anger and joy effectively
  • B
    Develop good relationships with peers
  • C
    Concentrate persistently on competition with peers
    Correct
  • D
    Concentrate on and persist with challenging tasks
11
Which of the following statements support of environment in the development of a child?
  • A
    Correlation between IQs of identical twins raised in different homes is as high as 0.75.
  • B
    Some students quickly process information while others in the same class do not.
  • C
    There has been a steady increase in students’ average performance on IQ tests in last few decades.
    Correct
  • D
    Physically fit children are often found to be morally good.
12
Socialization includes cultural transmission and
  • A
    Fits children into labels.
  • B
    Discourage rebellion.
  • C
    Development of individual personality.
    Correct
  • D
    Provides emotional supports.
13
A teacher shows two identical glasses filled with an equal amount of juice in them. She empties them in two different glasses one of which is taller and the other one is wider. She asks her class to identify which glass would have more juice in it. Students reply that the taller glass has more juice. Her students have difficulty in dealing with
  • A
    Decentering
    Correct
  • B
    Egocentrism
  • C
    Accommodation
  • D
    Reversibility
14
Karnail Singh does not pay income tax despite legal procedures and expenses. He thinks that he cannot support a corrupt government which spends millions of rupees in building unnecessary dams. He is probably in which state of Kohlberg’s stages of moral development
  • A
    Post Conventional
    Correct
  • B
    Para Conventional
  • C
    Pre Conventional
  • D
    Conventional
15
Intelligence theory incorporates the mental process involved in intelligence (i.e. meta-components) and the varied forms that intelligence can take (i.e. creative intelligence)
  • A
    Thurstone’s primary mental abilities
  • B
    Sternberg’s triarchic theory of intelligence
    Correct
  • C
    Spearman’s ‘g’ factor
  • D
    Savant theory of intelligence