West Bengal Primary Teachers Eligibility Test: Child psychology and pedagogy objective questions with answers

Child development and psychology:  Sample solved objective questions

Set-1

1. The most difficult age for the
development of a child is -
(a) Early childhood
(b) Teen age
(c) Young age
(d) Adult age

2. Heredity and atmosphere are
correlate
(a) Companions
(b) Dependent
(c) Elders
(d) All of these

3. Which of the following factors
comes in the way of girls' personal
rights?
(a) Social Recognition
(b) Family
(c) Gender Difference
(d) All of these

4. Which of the following is not an
accepted stage in Kohlberg's
Theory of Moral Development?
(a) Interpersonal relations
(b) Individualism
(c) Social contract and social rights
(d) Universal principles

5. Which of the following is not
considered a factor of cognition?
(a) Fear
(b) Retreat
(c) Anger
(d) Hunger

6. An ideal teacher should
concentrate
(a) On teaching methods
(b) On the subject being taught
(c) On students and their
behaviours
(d) On all of these

7. The motif of the concept of
curricular flexibility is to benefit
(a) Disabled students
(b) Minority students
(c) Reserved castes
(d) All of these

8. Which of the following is not
considered a tool for formative
assessment
(a) Oral questions
(b) MCQ
(c) Assignments
(d) Projects

9. What do you understand by the
term Peer Group ?
(a) People of same profession
(b) Friends and acquaintances
(c) Family members and relatives
(d) All of these

10. A problem child has
(a) Pampering guardians
(b) Hereditary problems
(c) IQ problems
(d) Physical problems

Answers of WB TET child
development and pedagogy
model questions
1. (b), 2. (d), 3. (d), 4. (c), 5. (b),
6. (d), 7. (a), 8. (b), 9. (d), 10. (a).

Set-2

1. Absenteeism can be tackled
by :
(1) teaching (2) punishing the
students (3) giving the sweets (4)
contacting the parents

2. Discipline means: (1) strict-
behaviour (2) severe punishment
(3) obedience (4) going by the
rules

3. If any girl child does not corne
to school regularly you will
(1) no bother (2) struck off her
name (3) complain to the
Principal (4) meet the parents and
en-
courage them .

4. In co-education you want't to :
(1) make separate rows of boys
and girls (2) you give preference
to boys over girls
(3) you. give preference to none
(4) you deal according to need

5. One of the basic priniclples of
socializing Individuals is :
(1) religion (2)
caste (3) educational (4) imitation

Directions (6-10) :
Which of the' skills do you
consider most essential for a
teacher?

6. (1) Oration skills
(2) Listening skills (3) Managerial
skills, (4) Teaching skills

7. (1) encourage children to
search for knowledge
(2) have all the information for
the children
(3) ability to make children
memorize materials
(4) enable children to do well in
tests

8. (1) identify gifted children (2)
have an understanding of all
children abilities (3) identify
children with learning
disabilities (4) none of the above

9. (1) _ ability to help children un­
derstand texts thoroughly (2)
ability to help children do all the
exercises
(3) ability to raise possible ac­
tions from the texts
(4) ability to help children from
their own opinions on the text

10. (1) to communicate well
{2) to use difficult language
(3) to impress students
(4) to read out the textbook

11. Success in developing values
is mainly dependent upon:
(1) government (2) society  (3)
family (4) teacher

12. Good reading aims at develop­
ing:
(l) understanding (2)
pronunciation (3) sensitivity (4)
increasing factual knowledge

13. The primary duty of a teacher
is to be responsible to his/her:
(1) family (2) students  (3)
society  (4) nation

14. Which of the following is not
related to educational achieve­
ment?
(1) Heredity (2) Experiences (3)
Practice (4) Self learning

15. One of,the students of a class
hardly talks in the class. How
would you encourage him to
express himself?
(1) By orgariising discussions (2)
By encouraging children to take
part in classroom activities
(3) By organizing educational
games/ programmes in which -
children feel like speaking-
(4) By giving good marks to those
who express them'selves well

Answers: 1.4, 2. 4, 3. 4, 4. 4, 5.
3, 5. 4, 7. 1, 8. 2, 9. 4, 10. 1,
11. 3, 12. 1, 13. 2, 14. 1, 15. 3

Set-3 

1. The stage in which a child be­
gins to think logically about
objects and events is known as-
(1) sensory-motor stage (2)
formal operational stage (3) pre-
operational stage (4) concrete
operational stage

2. Four distinct stages of chil­
dren's intellectual development
were identified by-
(1) Kohlberg (2) Erikson (3)
Skinner  (4) Piaget

3. Parents should play
a .............. role in the learning
process of young children.
(1) negative (2) proactive (3)
sympathetic (4) neutral

4. Which is the place where the
child's cognitive development is
defined in the best way?
(1) Playground (2) School and
classroom (3) Auditorium (4)
Home

5. ...is considered a sign of
motivated teaching.
(1) Maximum attendance in class
(2) Remedial work given by the
teacher
(3) Questioning by students
(4) Pin drop silence in the class

6. At lower classes play-way
method of teaching is based on-
(1) theory of physical education
programmes
(2) principles of methods of
teaching
(3) psychological principles of
development and growth
(4) sociological principles of
teaching

7. Dyslexia is associated with
(1) mental disorder (2)
mathematical disorder (3) reading
disorder (4) behavioural disorder

8. Education of children with
special needs should be provided
(1) along with other normal
children (2) by methods
developed for special children ,in
special schools (3) in special
school (4) by special teachers in
special schools

9. In the process of learning,
motivation-
(1) sharpens the memory of
learners (2) differentiates new
learning from old learning (3)
makes learners
think unidirectionally (4) creates
interest for learning among new
learners.

10. A student of grade 5 with
visual deficiency should be-
(1) excused to do a lower level of
work
(2) helped with his/her routine
work by parents and friends
(3) treated normally in the
classroom and provided support
through audio CDs.
(4) given special treatment in the
classroom

Answer key: 1. 3, 2. 4, 3. 3, 4. 2,
5. 2, 6. 3, 7. 3, 8. 1, 9. 4, 10. 3