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Child development and pedagogy - Part 2
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Q1. “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
A. Plato
B. Socrates
C. Aristotle
D. John Locke
Q2. According to Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, the Concrete operational stage starts at age
A. 1
B. 3
C. 5
D. 7
Q3. According to Aristotle, virtue is a/an ___ state between excess and deficiency.
A. real
B. natural
C. artificial
D. intermediate
Q4. The famous book “The Republic” was written by
A. Plato
B. Socrates
C. Aristotle
D. John Locke
Q5. The ___ is a measure of how spreads out points are from the mean.
A. variance
B. arithmetic mean
C. geometric mean
D. standard deviation
Q6. According to Jean Piaget, children are no longer egocentric when entering
A. Sensorimotor stage
B. Preoperational stage
C. Formal operational stage
D. Concrete operational stage
Q7. The process of selecting units from a population to estimate characteristics of the population is called
A. research
B. sampling
C. inference
D. analyzing
Q8. Who advocated removing children from their mothers’ care and raising them as wards of the state?
A. Plato
B. Socrates
C. Aristotle
D. John Locke
Q9. The most recent response is most likely to
A. forget
B. reoccur
C. compromised
D. not occur again
Q10. Plato believed that talent and intelligence are
A. distributed genetically
B. distributed gender-wise
C. not distributed genetically
D. not distributed gender-wise
Q11. Children are usually egocentric during ___ and ___ stages.
A. Sensorimotor, Preoperational
B. Formal operational, Sensorimotor
C. Preoperational, Concrete operational
D. Concrete operational, Formal operational
Q12. We calculate average marks of a student in the way as we calculate
A. variance
B. arithmetic mean
C. geometric mean
D. standard deviation
Q13. The Waldorf education approach emphasizes a balanced development of
A. head and heart
B. heart and hands
C. head and hands
D. head, heart, and hands
Q14. vThe concept of perennialism in education means school curricula should focus on what is
A. in need
B. in demand
C. important
D. everlasting
Q15. According to John Locke, a child’s mind does not contain any
A. memory
B. imagination
C. observation
D. innate ideas
Q16. A priori knowledge is knowledge that is known independently of
A. analysis
B. evidence
C. experience
D. information
Q17. In case of spending money, the virtue is ___ between wastefulness and stringiness.
A. real
B. prodigal
C. lavishness
D. generosity
Q18. A posteriori knowledge is knowledge that is known by
A. analysis
B. evidence
C. experience
D. information
Q19. An aspect of pragmatism is experiential learning, which says, education should come through
A. practice
B. experience
C. knowledge
D. observations
Q20. According to Jean Piaget, children develop abstract logic and reasoning skill during
A. Sensorimotor stage
B. Preoperational stage
C. Formal operational stage
D. Concrete operational stage
Q21. The philosopher who for the first time mentioned the importance of play (or sports) in education was
A. Plato
B. Aristotle
C. Socrates
D. John Locke
Q22. The idea of practical learning means education should apply to the
A. society
B. practice
C. real world
D. abstract knowledge
Q23. Rousseau advocated an educational method which consisted of removing the child from
A. school
B. burden
C. society
D. past memory
Q24. The concept of pragmatism in educational philosophy says that education should be about
A. virtue
B. obedience
C. life and growth
D. shaping good citizens
Q25. The standard deviation is the ___ of the variance.
A. cube
B. cube root
C. square
D. square root
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