Child Development (Previous Years Questions)
APTET Child Development and Pedagogy (CDP) Question Bank
1. Constructs of childhood
(Sub-topics: Concept of childhood and its importance, Commonalities and diversities, Multiple Childhoods, Role of Family, School in Socialization, Parenting, Family and adult-child relationships, Child rearing practices.)
1. Most successful child rearing style
2. Adaptive control techniques and appropriate autonomy granting is found in this type of child rearing style
3. One of the following has done research on parenting styles
4. Parenting style in which parents give appropriate autonomy to the child
5. As per Philip Arice, Childhood is
6. Mis matched pair
7. “Because I said so” is a typical response of the parents in this parenting style.
8. Parents were afraid of heavy rains and floods. So 5 years aged Anand also fears about rains. This belongs to
9. The first social system encountered by children is
2. Methods and techniques of data collection:
(Sub-topics: Observation, Interviews, Reflective Journals, Anecdotal records and Narratives, Introspection, Experimental method, Questionnaire, Case Study, Rating Scales, Longitudinal and Cross-Cultural Approaches, Action Research in education.)
1. The following method is also known as Clinical Method
2. To observe the behaviour of children “Observation Dome”was prepared by
3. One of the following has applied action research to Education
4. Asking the state ranker student to share his experiences and thoughts comes under
5. The method which is used very often in the assessment tests of personality
6. Artificial observation is also called as
7. The approach to study about childhood development of a kid from 3 years to 10 years age
8. The Tool that does not study children behaviour
9. The record book in which children record their own thoughts
10. Case study method is also known as
11. For observing the behaviour of his students, the teacher himself involved as a player in a game played by the students, this type of observation is
12. The observer and observee are the same in this method
3. Perspectives in Development
(Sub-topics: Concept of Growth, Development and Maturation, Principles of development, Factors influencing development, Developmental milestones & Hazards, Branches of Psychology, Physical – Motor Development.)
1. Wrongly mentioned regarding the principle of development
2. One of the following stated that Heredity plays more important role then environment on the human development.
3. Learning takes place from
4. At first the child used whole hand to hold the thing. Later he could hold by his fingers. Here, the Development principle is
5. Wrongly written statement regarding principles of development
6. The reason for the individual differences among children is
7. Appropriate age for learning Motor skills
8. One of the following statements is true
9. Incorrect statement regarding principles of development
10. Development =
11. The precise direction of infant development
12. ‘Cephalocaudal development’
13. ‘Developmental Milestones’ proposed by
4. Social, Emotional, Language, Moral, Play Development and A sense of self
(Sub-topics: Social Development, Emotional Development, Language development, etc.)
1. According to Ericson the… conflict faced by children during 3 to 6 years of age
2. According to Kohlberg “Good boy girl morality” is found in the stage
3. According to Ericson the social Conflict “Autonomy Doubt” is faced at the age (approximately) of
4. The concept of “Language acquisition Devise” was introduced by
5. ‘Cooperative play’ starts at the following age (approximately)
6. As per Ericson the psychosocial conflict faced during 7th stage is
7. The stage at which ‘Self Concept’ in Children starts is
8. According to Kohlberg, ‘Stage of obedience to avoid punishment’ is found in this stage
9. According to Ericson, the children between 6 to 12 years will face the following psychosocial conflict
10. Threatening is a
11. Self-resources among the following
12. Socially critical situation faced by School age children
13. As per skinner children learn language through
14. Children learn emotions through
15. Wrong statement among the following as per Chomskey.
16. According to Ericson the psycho social conflict faced by individual in the last stage
17. Children do bargaining at this moral stage
18. The process by which a Biological man becomes a Humane (Social man)
19. Manju, who is studying class 10, promises to her Classmate Meena, that, if you help me in English, I will help you in Mathematics. According to the Kohlberg’s the above statement related to
20. The first stage in language development is
5. Cognition and Cognitive Development
(Sub-topics: Includes Piaget’s stages, Vygotsky, Bruner, thinking, creativity, etc.)
1. Wrongly written statement among the following with regard to Sensori Motor Stage
2. The second stage in creative process is
3. Persons with following type of thinking posess an ability to generate multiple solutions to a problem
4. One of the following is NOT related to cognitive domain
5. According to Piaget, Animism is found in this stage
6. The author of the book ‘Art of thought’ is
7. According to Piaget, lack of concepts of irreversibility is found in this stage
8. The following is NOT a ‘higher order Mental process’ as per Vygotsky
9. Sankar Suggests so many solutions to a problem. The thinking of Sankar is
10. According to Vygotsky ‘Higher Mental process’ is
11. In creative stages, a sudden occurrence of a solution to a problem is happened in
12. ‘Object Permanence’ appears at this stage
13. To facilitate conceptualization among students, the teacher should
14. ZPD means
15. Piaget didn’t use the following word in his Theory of Cognitive Development
6. Personality
(Sub-topics: Meaning, Definition, Characteristics, Factors, Theories, Assessment, Mental Health, Adjustment, Defence mechanisms.)
1. The following is not a projective test of personality
2. Ayan neither wants to do home work, nor scolded by the class teacher. The conflict of Ayan is
3. ‘Id’ works on the following principle
4. Thematic apperception Test was created by
5. Govind wants to play with a dog. But he is scared that the dog will bite him. The Conflict in Govind is
6. A person got angry upon his higher officer in the office. He could not exhibit his anger on his higher officer. So, he showed his anger on his children at home. The defense Mechanism used here is
7. Siva liked two dolls in a shop. But he can purchase only one… The conflict of Siva is
8. One of the following is a “Type theorist”
9. Raju asked his father to buy a cycle. But his father denied. Then Raju made friendship with a person having cycle, and satisfied by riding his friend’s cycle. The Defense Mechanism used by Raju is
10. Begum neither wants to go to school nor wants to be scolded by her mother at home… The conflict of Begum in this context
11. Projective test among the following
12. The defense mechanism in which we justify what we do is
13. A student, who was afraid to give a seminar did not come to college that day – Defense Mechanism here is
14. A person’s ‘Ego’ is ruled by
15. “Prasanth neither wants to listen to his mother words nor wants to be punished by her.” The conflict of Prasanth in this context
7. Understanding Learning
(Sub-topics: Meaning, Nature, Types, Learning Curves, Factors influencing learning, Theories of learning, Constructivism.)
1. Identify the wrongly stated sentence regarding the characteristics of learning
2. A person who is well versed in Hindi, wants to learn Sanskrit. The type of transfer of learning will be
3. The book ‘On Memory’ was written by
4. In Pavlov’s experiment ‘food’ is
5. Following is not a Gestaltist
6. ‘Figure ground relationship’ is related to
7. Persons with ‘dyslexia’ will face difficulties in
8. In Pavlov’s experiment, the dog salivated when food is paired with the sound of the bell. Here the salivation is a
9. First step in ‘learning by imitation’ is
10. If the forgetting is caused due to the interference of previously learned material on recalling recently learnt material, the reason for forgetting is
11. A student who learnt the plural for the word ‘Book’ as ‘Books’, said the plural for the word ‘Child’ as ‘Childs’ instead of Children. This is due to
12. The word ‘Learning disability’ was first used by
13. Author of the book ‘Inquiry into human faculty and its development’ is
14. In higher order conditioning »ringing of bellµ is
15. ‘Bobo Doll study’ is related to the following learning theory
16. Anita learnt vocal music. Later she wants to learn Veena, Here the transfer of learning will be
17. One of the following is related to ‘Psychomotor domain’
18. Vijay remembers any concept by doing it experimentally. The Memory of Vijay is
19. ‘Operant conditioning theory’ is also known as
20. Author of the book “Social learning and personality development” is
21. The ‘Theory of Generalization’ related to transfer of Learning was proposed by
22. Last stage in learning curve is
23. Dysgraphia is a
24. A person well versed in type writing doing DTP work on computer. Here the transfer of learning is
25. Programmed Learning is the product of this following theory
26. Scientist who experimented on memory
27. Stimulus acts as a reinforcer in this theory