Developmental perspective of teaching demands teachers to

• be strict disciplinarians as children experiment quite frequently

• adopt instructional strategies based on the knowledge of developmental factors

• treat children in different developmental stages in an equitable manner

• provide learning that results in the development of only the cognitive domain

What is wrong about heredity in following statements?

• Heredity determines the sex of the child

• It contributes significantly towards physical constitution

• It contributes towards the birth of twins

• It includes interests, attitudes, likes, dislikes and emotional state of mind

The term emotional revolution is closely associated with

• infancy

• childhood

• adolescence

• adulthood

A teacher found that a student is facing difficulty in drawing a square. He/she assumes that this student would also find it difficult to draw a diamond. Does he/She apply which of the following principles to arrive at his/her assumption?

• Development is gradual

• Development is different for different people

• Development tends to follow an orderly sequence

• Development is saltatory

Which one of the following statements is true regarding the role of heredity and environment in human development?

• The relative effects of heredity and environment vary in different areas of development

• The policy of compensatory discrimination of the Government of India is based on the role of 'nature' in human development

• The role of environment is almost fixed, whereas the impact of heredity can be altered

• The theories based on the 'behaviourism' are largely based on the role of 'nature' in human development

Which of the following statements is not true?

• Heredity is the transmission of traits from parents to off springs

• Development is the product of the interaction of the organism and its environment'

• Heredity is the sublimation of inborn individual traits

• Heredity is the transmission from parents to offsprings of physical and mental characteristics

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Laws of Association are

• Law of Similarity

• Law of Contrast

• Law of Contiguity

• All of these

What is the principal psychological characteristic of childhood?

• Dependence on others

• Feeling of gregariousness

• Religious feeling

• Lack of tendency of imitation

At the upper primary stage there is a need of

• educational and career guidance

• educational, career and personal guidance

• only career guidance

• only educational guidance

Which of the following statements is most appropriate in relation to adolescents?

• Thinking starts reflecting in concrete actions

• Abrupt increase in the intelligence quotient

• Increase in the incidence of emotional upheavals

• Carefree nature towards studies