Child Development MCQs For Job Test Preparation

1 - The use of technology to enhance learning process is called __________ in education.





ICT

2 - A common technique to help people begin the creative process is





brain storming

3 - A normal human being has __________ senses.





5

4 - A posteriori knowledge is knowledge that is known by





experience

5 - A priori knowledge is knowledge that is known independently of





experience

6 - A scoring guide use to evaluate the quality of students is called





rubrics

7 - A/An __________ assessment is one which measures what it is intended to measure .





Valid

8 - â€Å“All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.” This is the saying of





Aristotle

9 - According to Aristotle, virtue is a/an __________ state between excess and deficiency.





intermediate

10 - According to Edward Thorndike, learning is about responding to





stimuli

11 - According to Emile, the noblest work in education is to make a/an





good citizen

12 - According to Jean Piaget, children are no longer egocentric when entering





Concrete operational stage

13 - According to Jean Piaget, children develop abstract logic and reasoning skill during





Formal operational stage

14 - According to John Dewey, children should experience __________in school to make them better citizens.





democracy

15 - According to John Dewey, school is a __________ institution, and education is a __________ process.





social, social

16 - According to John Dewey, schools must prepare students for





present life

17 - According to John Locke, a child's mind does not contain any





innate ideas

18 - According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development, the Concrete operational stage starts at age





7

19 - According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development, the Formal operational stage starts at age





7

20 - According to Plato, the highest goal in all of education is knowledge of the





good

21 - According to Robert Sternberg, the three different types of required intelligence for creativity are





synthetic, analytical, and practical

22 - According to Rousseau, at what age a person ready to have a companion of the opposite sex?





16

23 - According to Socrates of Meno, virtue is





unteachable

24 - According to the __________, S-R bonds are stronger if an individual is ready to learn.





law of readiness

25 - According to the __________, the more you do something, the better you are at it.





law of exercise

26 - According to the law of effect, if a stimulus results in a negative outcome, the S-R bond is





strengthened

27 - According to the law of effect, if a stimulus results in a positive outcome, the S-R bond is





strengthened

28 - According to the philosophy of Idealism in education, the subject matter of curriculum should be





mind

29 - An aspect of pragmatism is experiential learning, which says, education should come through





experience

30 - An assessment is __________ if it consistently achieves the same results with the same (or similar) students.





Reliable

31 - An assessment that is carried out throught the course is called





formative assessment

32 - An assessment that is conducted prior to the start of teaching or instruction is called





initial assessment

33 - Anything that causes a reaction is called





stimulus

34 - As people gets older, the ability of applying or maintain attention





decreases

35 - As people grow older, the __________ of learning declines.





speed

36 - Children are usually egocentric during __________ and __________ stages.





Sensorimotor, Preoperational

37 - Curriculum revision should be a/an __________ process.





continuous

38 - Evaluation of the process of curriculum development should be made





continuously

39 - For an effective teaching, the teacher must be a subject matter expert that includes





all of the above

40 - Idealism is a philosophical approach that argues that __________are the only true reality, and the only thing worth knowing.





ideas

41 - In case of spending money, the virtue is __________ between wastefulness and stringiness.





generosity

42 - In education, __________ is used to make inference about the learning and development of students.





assessment

43 - Jean Piaget proposed __________ stages of Cognitive Development.





4

44 - Plato argued that __________ are fit to rule.





only philosophers

45 - Plato believed that talent and intelligence are





not distributed genetically

46 - Progressivism believes that children learn in a/an





community

47 - Progressivism believes that education comes from the experience of the





child

48 - Realism is a philosophical approach that argues that ultimate reality is the world of





physical objects

49 - Responses that produce a discomforting effect become __________ to occur again in that situation.





less likely

50 - Responses that produce a satisfying effect in a particular situation become __________ to occur again in that situation.





more likely

51 - Robert Sternberg, a famous psychologist, argued that creativity requires __________ different types of intelligence.





3

52 - Rousseau advocated an educational method which consisted of removing the child from





society

53 - Teachers should present information to the students clearly and in interesting way, and relate this new information to the things students





already know

54 - The __________ is a measure of how spreads out points are from the mean.





standard deviation

55 - The __________ says, we are motivated to gain rewards and avoid punishments.





law of effect

56 - The __________ the stimulus-response bond (S-R bond), the better a person has learned the lesson.





stronger

57 - The advocators of philosophy of Pragmatism believe that reality is





constantly changing

58 - The application of ideas, knowledge and skills to achieve the desired results is called





problem solving

59 - The book â€Å“A Brief History of Time” is written by





Stephen Hawking

60 - The book Emile or â€Å“On Education” on the nature of education and man is written by





Rousseau

61 - The brain __________ as people gets older.





shrinks

62 - The branch of philosophy focuses on the nature of reality is





Metaphysics

63 - The concept of perennialism in education means school curricula should focus on what is





everlasting

64 - The concept of pragmatism in educational philosophy says that education should be about





life and growth

65 - The conclusion of a deductive argument is





certain

66 - The connection between stimulus and response is called





stimulus-response bond

67 - The curriculum of educational institutes should be based on





theory and practice

68 - The extinction technique of classroom management is a technique where teacher __________ any negative behavior.





ignore

69 - The famous book â€Å“The Republic” was written by





Plato

70 - The field of study concerned with the construction of thought processes, including remembering, problem solving, and decision-making is called





Cognitive Development

71 - The idea of practical learning means education should apply to the





real world

72 - The idea of teaching the whole child in the â€Å“philosophy of pragmatism in education” means teaching students to be good





citizens

73 - The Law of Effect can be effectively used in





classroom management

74 - The longer a particular ability is unused the __________ it becomes.





weaker

75 - The more often a particular ability is used the __________ it becomes.





stronger

76 - The more parts of your brain you use, the more likely you are to __________ information.





retain

77 - The most recent response is most likely to





reoccur

78 - The new curriculum should be introduced





gradually

79 - The philosopher who for the first time mentioned the importance of play (or sports) in education was





Aristotle

80 - The philosopher who for the first time taught logic as a formal discipline was





Aristotle

81 - The philosopher who is called the father of Idealism is





Plato

82 - The process of reasoning from one or more given statements to reach a logically certain conclusion is called





Deductive Reasoning

83 - The process of selecting units from a population to estimate characteristics of the population is called





sampling

84 - The psychologist who for the first time proposed the concept of connectionism in learning was





Edward Thorndike

85 - The reasoning in which the given statements are viewed as supplying strong evidence for the truth of the conclusion is called





Inductive Reasoning

86 - The satiation technique of classroom management is a technique where instead of punishing negative behaviors, the teacher might decide to actually __________ the negative behavior.





encourage

87 - The standard deviation is the __________ of the variance.





square root

88 - The study of the physical, social and mental aspects of aging is called





Gerontology

89 - The technique of classroom management where the teacher punishes negative behaviors by removing an unruly student from the rest of the class is called





satiation technique

90 - The term heuristic means __________ in decision making.





mental shortcuts

91 - The three laws of connectionism are the laws of





effect, exercise and readiness

92 - The truth of the conclusion of an inductive argument is





probable

93 - The use of a physical punishment for class management is called





corporal punishment

94 - The Waldorf education approach emphasizes a balanced development of





head, heart, and hands

95 - There are __________ laws of connectionism.





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96 - There is __________ in working memory as people gets older.





degradation

97 - We calculate average marks of a student in the way as we calculate





arithmetic mean

98 - Which from the following is NOT among the five senses?





thought

99 - Which from the following should be used to decrease minor inappropriate behavior ?





Ignorance

100 - Which from the following should be used to increase correct responses and appropriate behavior?





Praise

101 - Who advocated removing children from their mothers' care and raising them as wards of the state?





Plato

102 - Who is called the father of both Realism and the scientific method?





Aristotle

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