Pedagogy Test 53

Total Questions: 35

1 - When you try to narrow down a list of alternatives to arrive at a single correct answer you engaged in:

A ) Convergent thinking ✅
B ) Creativity
C ) Divergent thinking
D ) Insight

2 - The stage of prenatal development during which the developing organism is most vulnerable to injury is the:

A ) Zygotic stage
B ) Fetal stage
C ) Germinal stage
D ) Embryonic stage ✅

3 - The cephalocaudal trend in the motor development of children can be described simply as a:

A ) Head to foot direction ✅
B ) Centre outward direction
C ) Foot to head direction
D ) Body appendages direction

4 - Development norms:

A ) Can be used to make extremely precise predictions about the age at which an individual child will rich various development and milestones
B ) Indicate the maximum age at which a child can reach a particular developmental milestone and still be considered normal
C ) Indicate the average age at which individual reach various development milestone ✅
D ) Involve both a and b

5 - When the development of the same subjects is studied over a period of time the study is called a:

A ) Cross sectional study
B ) Longitudinal study
C ) Life history study ✅
D ) Sequential study

6 - The quality of infant caregiver attachment depend:

A ) On the quality of bonding in the first few hours of life
B ) Exclusively on the infants temperament
C ) On the interaction between the infant's temprament and the caregiver's responsiveness ✅
D ) On how stranger anxiety is handled

8 - 5 years old David watches as you pour water from a short, wide glass into a tall ,narrow one .He says there is now more water than before.This response demonstrates that:

A ) David understand the concept of conservation
B ) David does not understand the concept of conservation ✅
C ) David's cognitive development is behind for his age
D ) B and C

9 - Which of the following is not one of the criticisms of Piaget theory of cognitive development?

A ) Piaget may have underestimated the cognitive skills of children in some areas
B ) Piaget may have underestimated the influence of cultural factors on cognitive development
C ) The theory does not clearly address the issue of individual differences in development
D ) Evidence for the theory is based on childrens answer to questions ✅

11 - The featured study on the effects of early family relations on sexual mensuration found:

A ) No association between early family stress and the timing of puberty
B ) That early family stress was strongly associated with earlier sexual maturation in females
C ) The early family stress was moderately associated with earlier sexual maturation in females ✅
D ) No sport for the evolutionry hypothesis positd by Belsky

14 - Which of the following is now a way in which men's and women's career development differ?

A ) For women there is not a clear path leading to success
B ) Women are more likely to experience career interruptions
C ) Many women sab ordinate their career goes to their husbands
D ) Because they typically occupy subordinate positions women are more likely than men to have mentors ✅

16 - Freud believed that most personality disturbance are due to:

A ) The failure of parents to reinforce healthy behaviour
B ) A poor self concept resulting from excessive parental demands
C ) Unconscious and unresolved sexual conflictd rooted in childhood experience ✅
D ) The exposure of children to unhealthy role models

17 - According to Alfred Adler the prime motivating force in a person's life is:

A ) Physical gratification
B ) Existential anxiety
C ) Striving for superority ✅
D ) The need for power

18 - Which of the following learning mechanisms does B.F Skinner see as being the major means by which behaviour is learned?

A ) Classical conditioning
B ) Operant conditioning ✅
C ) Observational learning
D ) Insight learning

19 - Always having been a good student, Irving is the confident that he will do well in his psychology course. according to Bandura's social learning theory, Irving would be said to have:

A ) Strong feelings of self- efficacy ✅
B ) A sense of superiority
C ) Strong feelings of self esteem
D ) Strong defence mechanism

20 - Which of the following approaches to personality is least deterministic?

A ) The humanistic approach ✅
B ) The psychoanalytic approach
C ) Skinner's approach
D ) The behavioral approach

21 - Which of the following did Carl Rogers believe fosters a congruent self concept?

A ) Conditioner love
B ) Appropriate role models
C ) Immediate need gratification
D ) Unconditional love ✅

22 - The strongest support for the theory that personality is heavily influenced by genetics is provided by strong personality similarity between:

A ) Identical twins reared together
B ) Identical twins reared apart ✅
C ) Fraternal twins reared together
D ) Non twins reared together

23 - Main purpose of guidance is:

A ) To make student dependent on guidance
B ) To develop the power of self guidance ✅
C ) To guide maladjusted pupils only
D ) To guide the counselor

24 - Guidance helps the:

A ) Pupil adjustment and development ✅
B ) Selection of vocation
C ) Reducing drop out
D ) Reducing misbehaviour

25 - Guidance should be emphasized because it:

A ) Gives job to pupils
B ) Places pupil in college
C ) Gives employment to teacher
D ) Helps pupils to help himself ✅

26 - In guidance the role of teacher is as:

A ) A judge
B ) A Moralist
C ) A helper ✅
D ) A mirror

27 - The major responsibility of counselor is:

A ) Help students solve their problems ✅
B ) Solved student problems
C ) Helping teachers in test development
D ) Helping the principle in running school

28 - The first duty of The counselor is:

A ) To explain rules
B ) To check pupil discipline
C ) To review test data
D ) To establish report ✅

29 - Selecting appropriate course of study is a function of:

A ) Career counseling
B ) Social counselling
C ) Personal counselling
D ) Educational counselling ✅

30 - The key for successful counselling is:

A ) Establishing an effective relationship of counselor with counsellee ✅
B ) Establishing an effective relationship of counselor with parent of counsellee
C ) Establishing an effective relationship of counselor with friend of counsellee
D ) Establishing an effective relationship of counselor with class fellows of counsellee

31 - The primary purpose of guidance is:

A ) To forestall the occurrence of all conflicts
B ) To help the child resolve some of his conflicts
C ) To resolve the conflicts the child may have
D ) To adjust the severity of the conflicts the child has to face to a level from which he can profit ✅

32 - In counselling a student, a counselor should make it a point:

A ) To establish and maintain report ✅
B ) To give the student a psychological interpretation of his feelings as he goes along
C ) To remain as impersonal as possible so that the Counsellee with recognise his responsibility for solving his own problem
D ) To take the initiative in order to have the interview explore fruitful avenues for counsellee improvement

33 - The cumulative record includes:

A ) Achievement test
B ) Educational progress report
C ) Educational and vocational interests
D ) All of the above ✅

34 - The main purpose of guidance is to:

A ) Make pupil more dependent on guidance
B ) Develop the power of self-guidance ✅
C ) Limit guidance service to the maleadjusted
D ) Separate guidance from the educational program

35 - The major responsibility of The counselor in the modern high school is to:

A ) Help students solve their problems ✅
B ) Help the principle run the school
C ) Solve the student's many problems
D ) Guide teachers in there in-service training