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Learning Theories and Educational Legislation

1. Observant learning is very common in which species?
Human children

2. Pavlov enunciated his ideas while studying the physiology of the digestive system in which animal?
Dogs

3. Whose theory of operant conditioning is an extension of the theories of Pavlov?
Skinner’s

4. What is the key term for understanding operant conditioning?
Reinforcement

5. What is the other stimulus called in classical conditioning?
US (Unconditioned Stimulus)

6. Skinner’s experiment was conducted upon which animals?
Pigeons

7. What is the apparatus specially designed for Skinner’s experiments known as?
Skinner’s Box

8. What is the other name for Pavlovian conditioning?
Classical conditioning

9. What process is related to the motivational aspects of learning?
Insight

10. Perceptual learning is learning of what?
Reorganisation of functional whole

11. Distinguishing the call of birds is an example of what type of learning?
Perceptual learning

12. What three factors affect learning?
Physiological, environment and psychological motivation

13. Man learns by doing, whereas animals learn by what?
Observing

14. What is the nationality of the psychologist Ebbinghaus?
German

15. Similarity of material hinders learning in which kind of inhibition?
Both proactive and retroactive inhibitions

16. What is one of the factors that influence forgetting?
Rate of original learning

17. What does motivation explain?
The ‘Why’ of behaviour

18. Learning is the modification of what?
Behaviour

19. What is the full form of the RtE Act?
Right of children to free and compulsory Education Act

20. The RtE – 2009 Act is based on which article of the constitution of India?
Article 45

21. How many sections does the RtE – 2009 Act have?
38

22. The RtE Act has been extended to the whole of India except which state?
J&K

23. According to the RtE Act, children of which age group will be provided free and compulsory education?
6 years to 14 years

24. Elementary education covers education from which classes?
Class 1 to class 8

25. As per the RtE Act, private and specified category schools shall admit what percentage of children belonging to weaker sections in class I?
25%

26. What provision improves learning for children admitted in age-appropriate classes to bring them to the level of their classmates?
Special training

27. In a School Management Committee (SMC), the percentage of actual parents will comprise at least how much?
75%

28. If an SMC has 16 members, what will be the number of women members?
8

29. What are the functions of a School Management Committee (SMC)?
Monitor the working of school, prepare school development plans, and monitor the utilization of grants

30. What are the duties of a teacher under the RtE?
Maintain regularity, complete the curriculum on time, and assess the learning ability of each child

31. If a teacher is not professionally qualified, after how many years of RtE implementation must they possess the required qualification?
5 years

32. Under RtE, what are teachers prohibited from engaging in?
Taking private tuition, inflicting corporal punishment, and gender or social discrimination

33. If a primary school has a total enrollment of 98 students, how many teachers must the government provide?
4

34. For class 7, there has to be one teacher for every how many children?
35 children

35. What is the number of working days in an academic year for class 3?
200

36. What are the number of instructional hours in an academic year for class 8?
1000

37. What is the minimum number of working hours per week for a teacher?
45

38. As per age-appropriate education, a 10-year-old child who has never been to school is eligible for admission to which class?
Class Five

39. Which type of evaluation assesses the learning progress to provide continuous feedback to both teachers and students during instruction?
Formative evaluation

40. Diagnostic evaluation ascertains what?
Causes and remedies of persistent learning problems during instructions

41. What is true about multiple-choice questions?
They are more objective than true-false questions

42. What are the characteristics of Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation?
It replaces marks with grades, evaluates every aspect of the student, and helps in reducing examination phobia

43. What are the main objectives of student evaluation of teachers?
To make teachers take teaching seriously, help them adopt innovative methods, and identify areas for further improvement

44. What is the main purpose of conducting a diagnostic test?
Identifying the causes underlying academic difficulties

45. What does criterion-referenced evaluation refer to?
It measures student performance against a fixed set of learning standards

46. What is the main purpose of conducting an evaluation?
To provide feedback on the extent to which education for a productive life has been successfully imparted

47. What kind of activity involves students assembling various artifacts of their work in a notebook to demonstrate what they can do for society?
Portfolio assessment

48. Failure of a child to perform well in class tests leads us to believe what?
There is a need to reflect upon the syllabus, pedagogy, and assessment processes

49. What role would students foresee in their own assessment in a constructivist classroom?
Students would plan for assessment with the teacher

50. As a Mathematics teacher, what should you believe about students' errors?
Students’ errors provide insights into their thinking

51. What is the primary reason for a child's failure in school?
A child’s failure is a reflection on the system and its inability to respond to the child

52. Teaching performed by a group of teachers is called what?
Team teaching

53. Where was Team Teaching used for the first time?
America

54. Who developed a Teaching Model in which the teacher was replaced by a computer?
Denial Davis

55. Who developed the computer-based teaching model?
Stolurow and Davis (1965)

56. Who propounded programmed learning?
Skinner

57. What does instruction include?
Providing informations

58. What has been provided by programmed instruction?
Educational Technology

59. What are the principles of programmed learning?
Presenting the subject matter in small frames, continuing the learning process, and continuous evaluation

60. In what year was the computer developed in India?
1961

61. Who is the father of the software approach?
Skinner

62. When was Instructional Technology first used?
1926

63. What is Team Teaching?
It involves teams of teachers to optimize resources, interest, and expertise

64. Which teaching method involves two or more teachers planning a subject cooperatively and evaluating its effect periodically?
Team teaching

65. Which method is used for teaching science in the present era of technology?
Programmed Instruction, Team Teaching, and Computer Assisted Teaching

66. If some students are not in a mood to study in the class, what should a teacher do?
Tell them some interesting things related to their interest or your own subject

67. What role should parents play in the learning process of young children?
Proactive

68. Kohlberg’s theory of moral development as a follow-up of Piaget’s theory was a result of what?
Creating moral dilemmas for people

69. At which level in Kohlberg's theory is morality externally controlled?
Pre-conventional level

70. Which stage is not proposed by Kohlberg in his Theory of Moral Development?
Social contract and social rights

71. A child returning a book because of fear of punishment illustrates which level of Kohlberg’s theory?
Pre-conventional level

72. Children in primary schools follow which stages proposed by Lawrence Kohlberg?
Individualism and Exchange, and Obedience and Punishment Orientation

73. What is a characteristic of Kohlberg’s stages of moral development?
Universal sequences of stages across all cultures

74. What is a major criticism of Kohlberg’s theory?
Kohlberg did not account for cultural differences in moral reasoning of men and women

75. Which is a correctly matched pair in moral development orientations?
Good boy and good girl orientation: One earns approval by being nice

76. On what count has Lawrence Kohlberg’s theory of moral reasoning been criticized?
Kohlberg has based his study primarily on a male sample

77. According to Kohlberg, in which stage do people approach moral problems as members of society?
Stage 4

78. What is the most primitive sentiment expressed by a child in early childhood?
His love for his own self

79. How can a teacher instill moral values in children according to Kohlberg?
By involving them in discussions on moral issues

80. A child citing "Because teacher says so, and you don't want to get punished" demonstrates which level of moral development?
Punishment and obedience orientation

81. Gilligan labels the differences in moral decision making as the morality of what for men and what for women?
Justice; Caring

82. The level of development in which morality is controlled by the fear of punishment is called what?
Pre-moral level

83. What is the thinking process involved in judgements about questions of right and wrong called?
Moral reasoning

84. Not paying income tax because the government is corrupt places a person in which of Kohlberg’s stages?
Post-conventional

85. Adolescents joining committees with strong beliefs against bullying are at which stage?
The conventional level

86. In which stage do children become active members of their peer group?
Adolescence

87. The idea that "Development is a never ending process" is associated with what?
Principle of continuity

88. The term 'Toy age' refers to which stage of development?
Early childhood

89. Which of the following is not a characteristic of early childhood?
Play age

90. In the late childhood period, children understand the conversion of which physical entities?
Mass, number and area

91. Which development task is not appropriate to late childhood?
Achieving a masculine or feminine social role

92. What does the current view of childhood assume?
Childhood is a unique period of growth and change

93. What is the best method to study growth and development of a child?
Developmental Method

94. What does the term PSRN in development imply?
Problem solving, reasoning & numeracy

95. Who first used the concept of the developmental task?
Havighurst

96. Development of concepts is primarily a part of which development?
Intellectual development

97. Heredity is considered as what kind of social structure?
Static

98. Which of the following is not a principle of human development?
Reversible

99. Human development is the product of joint contribution of what?
Heredity and environment

100. Child development is defined as a field of study that does what?
Accounts for the gradual evolution of a child’s cognitive, social and other capacities

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