Children with learning disabilities

• have confusion between letters and alphabets that look alike

• easily recognize and comprehend sight words

• have retarded mental development

• have low IQ

A lot of children in India, especially girls do household chores before coming to school and after going back from school. What do you think a teacher should do regarding homework in this context?

• The teacher should give homework that connects the learning at school to the children's lives at home

• The teacher should ensure that the children wake up early in the morning and stay till late to complete their homework

• Ask the parents of the children to get tuition for completing the homework for their children

• She should give harsh punishment to the children who do not complete their homework

In an effective classroom

• the children look up to the teacher for guidance and support to facilitate their learning

• the children are always anxious and kept on their toes since the teacher keeps on giving regular tests to assess their ability for recall

• the children fear the teacher since the teacher uses verbal and physical punishment

• the children don't have any regard for the teacher and do as they please

According to Vygotsky why do children speak to themselves?

• Children use their speech to attract the attention of adults to them

• Children are very talkative by nature

• Children are egocentric

• Children use speech to guide their actions

Presenting disconnected chunks of knowledge would

• help learners organize information on their own

• make the task of the teacher difficult and that of the learners easy.

• make it difficult for the learners to gain conceptual understanding

• make recall easier for the learners

Development of the capacity for abstract scientific thinking is a characteristic of

• concrete operational stage

• formal operational stage

• sensorimotor stage

• pre-operational stage

Do children acquire language because they are genetically predisposed to do so or because parents intensively teach them from an early age?

This question essentially highlights

• whether development is a continuous process or discontinuous one?

• the influence of cognition on development of language

• the nature-nurture debate

• the discussion on development as a multi-factor ability

What term/phrase does Piaget use for 'mental structures which are the building blocks of thinking'?

• Gene

• Maturation blocks

• Schemas

• Zones of development

Process of socialization does not include

• acquiring values and beliefs

• genetic transmission

• learning the customs and norms of a culture

• acquisition of skills

What is Creativity?

• A form of intelligence that refers to skills that depend on accumulated knowledge and experience

• A form of intelligence that depends heavily on information-processing skills including the speed of processing

• Ability to identify or prepare original and divergent solutions to problems

• Creativity is best defined as an IQ of above 200