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(a) Functional fixedness
(b) Algorithms
(c) Means-end analysis
(d) Response set
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Answer: (c) Means-end analysis
Explanation:
1. Means-end analysis breaks a problem into sub-goals and reduces the gap to the goal step by step.
2. Functional fixedness and response set are obstacles, and algorithms are fixed procedures.
Teacher's Note:
1. Means-end analysis is a heuristic.
2. Functional fixedness blocks new uses of objects.
(a) through meaningful discovery
(b) by promoting competitions among students
(c) by offering materialistic rewards
(d) by using negative reinforcement
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Answer: (a) through meaningful discovery
Explanation:
1. Meaningful discovery lets children construct understanding.
2. Competition, rewards and negative reinforcement are external controls.
Teacher's Note:
1. Discovery learning is associated with Bruner.
2. Intrinsic interest lasts longer.
(a) Metacognition
(b) Assimilation
(c) Accommodation
(d) Conditioning
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Answer: (a) Metacognition
Explanation:
1. Metacognition is awareness of one's own thinking and knowing.
2. Assimilation and accommodation are Piagetian adaptation processes.
Teacher's Note:
1. Metacognition = thinking about thinking.
2. Flavell introduced the term.
(a) Learning is effective when the students are motivated to avoid punishment
(b) Learning is effective when the students have intrinsic motivation
(c) Learning is effective when the students are extrinsically motivated
(d) Motivation does not have any role to play in learning
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Answer: (b) Learning is effective when the students have intrinsic motivation
Explanation:
1. Intrinsic motivation, which comes from interest and curiosity, leads to deeper learning.
2. Avoiding punishment and extrinsic rewards give weaker, shorter-lived learning.
Teacher's Note:
1. Motivation matters greatly in learning.
2. Foster interest rather than fear.
(a) Only cognitive development
(b) Only social development
(c) Both cognitive and social development
(d) Physical, cognitive and social development
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Answer: (d) Physical, cognitive and social development
Explanation:
1. Heredity and environment interact in all aspects of development.
2. So physical, cognitive and social development are all results of this interaction.
Teacher's Note:
1. Avoid 'only' options.
2. Nature and nurture shape every domain.
Reason (R): Gender is biologically determined at the time of birth.
Choose the correct option.
(a) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(b) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(c) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(d) Both (A) and (R) are false.
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Answer: (c) (A) is true but (R) is false.
Explanation:
1. Seeing non-traditional roles helps children become flexible about gender roles, so (A) is true.
2. Sex is biological, but gender is socially constructed, so (R) is false.
Teacher's Note:
1. Sex is biological; gender roles are learned.
2. Reading material should show varied roles.
(a) Behavioristic
(b) Constructive
(c) Decontextualized
(d) Mechanical
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Answer: (b) Constructive
Explanation:
1. A constructivist approach lets students build understanding from experience.
2. Decontextualized and mechanical approaches lead to rote learning.
Teacher's Note:
1. Meaningful learning is connected to context and prior knowledge.
2. Behaviourist methods stress drill.
(a) Media
(b) Peers
(c) Neighbourhood
(d) Religion
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Answer: (a) Media
Explanation:
1. Children imitated behaviour seen on a TV show, so the influence came through media.
2. Media is a major agency of socialization, alongside family, school and peers.
Teacher's Note:
1. Bandura's observational learning explains imitation of models.
2. Media includes TV, internet and films.
(a) intelligence is a practical goal oriented activity
(b) intelligence comprises of seven intelligences in a hierarchical order
(c) intelligence is a generic ability that he labelled as 'g'.
(d) intelligence comprises of several kinds of human abilities.
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Answer: (d) intelligence comprises of several kinds of human abilities.
Explanation:
1. Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences says there are several distinct kinds of intelligence.
2. They are not hierarchical, and 'g' is Spearman's general intelligence.
Teacher's Note:
1. Gardner's types are independent, not ranked.
2. Spearman proposed 'g'.
(a) Rote memorisation
(b) Discovery learning
(c) Direct instruction
(d) Expository teaching
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Answer: (b) Discovery learning
Explanation:
1. Students infer city locations themselves from the clues given.
2. Learning through guided exploration and inference is discovery learning (Bruner).
Teacher's Note:
1. Discovery learning uses clues, not telling.
2. Expository teaching is teacher telling.
(a) respects diversity
(b) ignores individual differences
(c) uses standardized assessment
(d) promotes ability-based fixed grouping
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Answer: (a) respects diversity
Explanation:
1. Progressive education is child-centred and respects each child's individuality and background.
2. The other options ignore differences or limit learners.
Teacher's Note:
1. Flexible grouping is preferred to fixed grouping.
2. Progressive education follows Dewey.
(a) is situated in the 'feminist' perspective
(b) is that his theory is not based on research conducted on children.
(c) is that his theory does not propose distinct stages of moral development
(d) is that his theory does not make linkages with the cognitive capabilities of children.
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Answer: (a) is situated in the 'feminist' perspective
Explanation:
1. Gilligan argued Kohlberg's theory was based on male participants and valued justice over care.
2. Her critique therefore comes from a feminist perspective.
Teacher's Note:
1. Gilligan proposed the ethic of care.
2. Kohlberg did propose six stages and linked them to cognition.
(a) Sensitive periods
(b) Schema
(c) Emotional periods
(d) Biological maturity
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Answer: (a) Sensitive periods
Explanation:
1. Sensitive periods are times when development is especially open to particular experiences.
2. A schema is a mental structure and maturity is biological readiness.
Teacher's Note:
1. Language learning has a sensitive period.
2. Sensitive periods are less rigid than critical periods.
Reason (R): Aspects of development are not related to each other.
Choose the correct option:
(a) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(b) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(c) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(d) Both (A) and (R) are false.
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Answer: (d) Both (A) and (R) are false.
Explanation:
1. Development is holistic and the domains influence each other, so (A) is false.
2. Aspects of development are interrelated, so (R) is false.
Teacher's Note:
1. Development is interrelated across domains.
2. Physical health affects learning and social behaviour.
(a) no; no
(b) important; significant
(c) no; significant
(d) significant; no
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Answer: (b) important; significant
Explanation:
1. The family stays important while peers become increasingly significant in middle school.
2. Neither has 'no' role.
Teacher's Note:
1. Peer influence grows through middle childhood and adolescence.
2. Avoid absolute 'no' options.
(a) Sensori-motor
(b) Pre-operational
(c) Concrete operational
(d) Formal operational
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Answer: (c) Concrete operational
Explanation:
1. Children master conservation and classification in the concrete operational stage (about 7 to 11 years).
2. In the pre-operational stage they lack conservation.
Teacher's Note:
1. Concrete operational thinking is logical about concrete objects.
2. Formal operational adds abstract reasoning.
(a) Using appropriate rewards and punishment.
(b) Sensitivity to children's readiness to learn
(c) Acceptance of individual differences.
(d) Discovery learning.
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Answer: (a) Using appropriate rewards and punishment.
Explanation:
1. Piaget's implications include readiness, individual differences and discovery learning.
2. Rewards and punishment are a behaviourist idea.
Teacher's Note:
1. Piaget supports active exploration.
2. Reinforcement belongs to Skinner.
(i) Scaffolding
(ii) Conditioning
(iii) Collaborative learning
(iv) Modelling
(a) (i), (ii)
(b) (i), (iii)
(c) (i), (iii), (iv)
(d) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
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Answer: (c) (i), (iii), (iv)
Explanation:
1. Scaffolding, collaborative learning and modelling by adults or peers are Vygotskian.
2. Conditioning is a behaviourist idea.
Teacher's Note:
1. Vygotsky stresses social interaction and guided participation.
2. Exclude behaviourist terms.
(a) Biological Maturation
(b) Egocentrism
(c) Irreversible Thinking
(d) Zone of Proximal Development
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Answer: (d) Zone of Proximal Development
Explanation:
1. Scaffolding helps the learner do what she cannot yet do alone.
2. This takes her through the zone of proximal development to independent performance.
Teacher's Note:
1. ZPD = gap between actual and potential development.
2. Scaffolding is gradually withdrawn.
(a) the idea of discipline is of self-directed activity which comes from within the child herself.
(b) the teacher transmits knowledge through the method of direct instruction.
(c) the textbook is the only source of learning.
(d) the child assumes a passive role and does not have any control over her learning.
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Answer: (a) the idea of discipline is of self-directed activity which comes from within the child herself.
Explanation:
1. Progressive education develops self-discipline from within the child.
2. The other options describe teacher-centred, textbook-bound and passive learning.
Teacher's Note:
1. Dewey favoured self-discipline over imposed discipline.
2. Progressive means active learner.
(i) Open-mindedness
(ii) Curiosity and inquiry
(iii) Asks questions and clarifies
(iv) Follows instructions blindly
(v) Formulates hypotheses and plans experiments
(a) (i) and (ii)
(b) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
(c) (i), (ii), (iii), (v)
(d) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
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Answer: (c) (i), (ii), (iii), (v)
Explanation:
1. Critical thinkers are open-minded, curious, questioning and hypothesis-forming.
2. Following instructions blindly is the opposite of critical thinking.
Teacher's Note:
1. Exclude (iv) to find the right option.
2. Critical thinking involves questioning and evidence.
(a) Assessment should be only quantitative in the form of marks.
(b) Assessment should be done during the classroom activities.
(c) Observation of children is an important tool of assessment.
(d) Assessment should focus on understanding children's learning on a continuum.
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Answer: (a) Assessment should be only quantitative in the form of marks.
Explanation:
1. Assessment should include qualitative information, not just marks.
2. The other statements match continuous and comprehensive assessment.
Teacher's Note:
1. Marks alone cannot describe learning.
2. Observation and ongoing assessment are encouraged.
i. Barrier free access
ii. Assistive devices and appropriate technology-based tools
iii. Choice of regular or special schooling as well as home-based education
iv. Uniform structured curriculum and means of assessment
(a) (i) (ii) (iii)
(b) (i) (ii) (iv)
(c) (i) (iii) (iv)
(d) (ii) (iii) (iv)
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Answer: (a) (i) (ii) (iii)
Explanation:
1. Barrier-free access, assistive devices and choice of schooling all remove obstacles and respect individual needs.
2. A uniform curriculum and assessment ignores individual differences, so (iv) does not promote inclusion.
3. So (i), (ii) and (iii) are correct.
Teacher's Note:
1. Inclusion means adapting the system to the child, not the child to the system.
2. Any option stressing uniformity or rigidity is usually the wrong one.
(a) Self-directed
(b) Teacher-directed
(c) Parent-directed
(d) Peer-directed
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Answer: (a) Self-directed
Explanation:
1. Intrinsic motivation comes from within the learner.
2. When students set their own goals they feel ownership and autonomy.
3. Goals set by others are external pressure.
Teacher's Note:
1. Autonomy is a key driver of intrinsic motivation.
2. Involve students in setting their own learning goals.
(a) sensitive period
(b) zone of proximal development
(c) developmental delay
(d) cognitive stagnation
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Answer: (a) sensitive period
Explanation:
1. A sensitive (critical) period is a time when the organism is most receptive to learning a particular skill.
2. ZPD is the gap between what a child can do alone and with help.
3. Delay and stagnation are not stages of rapid learning.
Teacher's Note:
1. Language acquisition in early childhood is the classic example.
2. Do not confuse sensitive period with ZPD.
(a) Individual experiences are central to the learning process.
(b) classroom should be dominated by instructions from the teachers.
(c) children's experiences outside the school are irrelevant for learning.
(d) children cannot be expected to reason and think independently.
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Answer: (a) Individual experiences are central to the learning process.
Explanation:
1. Child-centred pedagogy puts the learner and the learner's experiences at the centre.
2. The other options give control to the teacher or deny the child's ability and experience.
Teacher's Note:
1. The teacher acts as a facilitator in child-centred education.
2. Children's out-of-school knowledge is a resource, as NCF stresses.
(a) focuses on undifferentiated instruction and standardized assessment.
(b) takes care of the emotional needs of his students.
(c) penalizes students for 'wrong answers'.
(d) focuses on reproduction of knowledge 'as it is'.
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Answer: (b) takes care of the emotional needs of his students.
Explanation:
1. Effective teachers attend to the emotional as well as cognitive needs of learners.
2. Undifferentiated teaching, penalties and rote reproduction go against sound pedagogy.
Teacher's Note:
1. A safe, supportive climate improves learning.
2. Wrong answers are opportunities to understand children's thinking.
Which principle of development does the above example illustrate?
(a) Development is a result of interaction between heredity and environment.
(b) Development is discontinuous.
(c) Development is totally unpredictable.
(d) Development is determined solely by heredity.
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Answer: (a) Development is a result of interaction between heredity and environment.
Explanation:
1. Sunita's readiness to walk and dance is biological (heredity).
2. Parental encouragement and TV models are environmental.
3. Her skill grew from both working together.
Teacher's Note:
1. Nature and nurture interact in development.
2. Words like 'solely' and 'totally' usually signal a wrong option.
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