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CTET-2013: Child Development and Educational Psychology

Practice test for CTET-2013 covering child development, educational psychology, learning theories, classroom management, and Indian educational provisions

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A major strength of ecological theory is its framework for explaining

  1. cognitive development
  2. economical development
  3. affective processes in development
  4. biological influences on development
  5. environmental influences on development
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Two factor theory of intelligence is related to __________.

  1. Guilford
  2. Spearman
  3. Binet Simon
  4. Burt and Vernon
  5. Thurstone
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who wrote the book "Growth of the Mind”?

  1. Koffka
  2. Moore
  3. Spencer
  4. Jawahar Lal Nehru
  5. Margaret Mead
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who propounded the "Trial and Error theory of learning"?

  1. Lev Vygotsky
  2. I.P Pavlon
  3. B.F. Skinner
  4. E.L Throndike

  5. Jean Piaget
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Responding and valuing are related to ___________.

  1. cognitive domain
  2. psychomotor domain
  3. affective domain
  4. affective domain and psychomotor domain
  5. all of the above
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Behaviorist approach is related with __________.

  1. Hull
  2. Broadbent
  3. Freud
  4. Watson
  5. Pretti-Frontczak
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is the first developmental stage of a child's growth process?

  1. Natal
  2. Birth
  3. Baby hood
  4. Embroyonic
  5. Infant
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Law of continuation is __________.

  1. the tendency of organising dissimilar items together
  2. the tendency to fill the gaps in stimulation
  3. the tendency of organising similar items together
  4. the tendency to perceive a line that starts in one way as continuing in the same way
  5. all of above
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The child whose chronological age is above mental age is known as _________.

  1. creative
  2. dull child
  3. average child
  4. bright child
  5. excellent
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If heredity is an important determinant of a specific behaviour, what prediction can we make about expression of the behaviour in identical twins reared apart compared to its expression in fraternal twins reared apart?<o:p>

  1. Fraternal twins will express the behaviour more similarly than identical twins.
  2. Identical twins will express the behaviour more similarly than fraternal twins.
  3. There will be more similarity in the expression of the behaviour in either set of twins.
  4. There will be little similarity in the expression of the behaviour in either set of twins.
  5. The behaviour will be expressed as similarly by identical twins as it is by fraternal twins.
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Irrational fear of objects or events is known as

  1. anxiety
  2. delusion
  3. stressor
  4. phobias
  5. all of above
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Seema is a student of class VI but she is too shy to participate in the class, what will the teacher do?


  1. Ask difficult questions from her, whose answers can be given by her.

  2. Ask her to exit the class.
  3. Not ask those questions from her, whose answers are beyond her means and due to which, she may become an object of ridicule in the class.
  4. Ask questions from her, only when she is keen to answer them.
  5. Not ask questions from her.
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following includes “Testing of group” for collecting information on behavior?

  1. Demonstrating method
  2. Instructional method
  3. Case study method
  4. Clinical method
  5. Differential method
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which text books should be considered as the excellent ones?

  1. Which have detailed descriptions on different subjects
  2. Which contain a large number of questions
  3. Which can develop the capability of thinking and reasoning
  4. Which have a lot of figures

  5. None of these
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The best procedure for a teacher to follow, when a pupil habitually calls out in class is to<o:p>

  1. put a demerit in the marking book on each occasion

  2. ask for a percent conference<o:p></o:p>
  3. refuse to recognize the pupil even when he/she is acting appropriately
  4. call on the pupil to answer questions that are within his/her ability level
  5. both 1 and 4
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who said “The new born’s world is nothing more than a looming buzing confusion”?

  1. B.F Skinner
  2. Jean Piaget
  3. William James
  4. Hull
  5. Erikson
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is/are measured by Mental rotation test?

  1. Fine finger
  2. Spatial abilities
  3. Temporally abilities
  4. Mathematical abilities
  5. Both 1 and 3
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

According to the Erikson’s life span development theory, at approximately what age does a person undergo the stage of autonomy versus shame and doubt?

  1. Birth to 18 months
  2. 2 - 3 years
  3. 3 - 5 years
  4. 6 to 11 years
  5. 19 to 40 years
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following theories identifies four stages of child’s intellectual development (sensory motor, pre-operational, concreate operational and formal operational)?

  1. Freud’s theory of pscho-sexual development
  2. Kohilberg’s theory of normal development
  3. Erickson’s theory of psycho-social development
  4. Piaget’s theory of cognitive development
  5. Piaget’s theory of genetic development
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is NOT the benefit of integration student who is centred for learning into the curriculum?

  1. Promotes peer communication
  2. Builds student-teacher relationship
  3. Builds student-Principal relationship
  4. Hinders discovery/active learning
  5. Strengthens student motivation
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Pankaj and Ramesh have the same IQ of 120. Pankaj is two years younger than Ramesh. If Ramesh is 12 years old, then the mental age of Pankaj is

  1. 8 years
  2. 10 years
  3. 14 years
  4. 16 years
  5. 12 years
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which articles enjoins that “All minorities whether based on religion or language shall have the right to establish and administer education institutions of their choice”?

  1. Article29(1)
  2. Article29(2)
  3. Article28(1)
  4. Article30(1)
  5. Article30(2)
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The free response techniques used with human beings is for

  1. only those children who are reading on grade level
  2. only those children who want to write for a newspaper
  3. only those children who spell and write cohesive sentences
  4. all children
  5. none of these
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

One of the important theories of moral development has been proposed by<o:p>


  1. Daniel Coleman<o:p></o:p>
  2. Erik Fromm
  3. Benjamin Bloom

  4. Piaget
  5. Laurence Kohlberg
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Illumination involves _________.

  1. insight experience
  2. new solution
  3. unconscious through process
  4. previous knowledge
  5. all of above
Question 26 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is the characteristics of operant conditioning?

  1. It helps in the learning of operational behavior.
  2. It is called type R-conditioning.
  3. Its strength of conditioning is shown by the response.
  4. It is called type S-conditioning
  5. Only 1, 2 and 3
Question 27 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Sonia and Sonu are playing detective game, in which they gather and sort through all of the clues to determine who has committed the crime. This game requires them to use ___________.

  1. inductive reasoning
  2. deductive reasoning
  3. critical thinking
  4. decision making
  5. creative thinking
Question 28 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A person having meld or moderate hearing loss, will be able to hear speech in __________.

  1. crowded surrounding
  2. quiet surrounding
  3. sound proof areas
  4. noisy areas
  5. none of these
Question 29 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

NUEPA is mainly concerned with _________.

  1. educational unity
  2. educational planning
  3. educational supervision
  4. educational evaluation

  5. educational institutes <o:p></o:p>
Question 30 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is the main aim of inclusion education?

  1. To prepare the result
  2. To conduct the test
  3. To know the diversity of the class
  4. To organize material to be targeted
  5. All of above
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