Child Development and Pedagogy MCQ - CDP MCQ - Section 1

71 Find the odd one.

Raven's test or Raven's Progressive Matrices (often referred to simply as Raven's Matrices) or RPM is a non-verbal group test typically used in educational settings. It is usually a 60-item test used in measuring abstract reasoning and regarded as a non-verbal estimate of fluid intelligence. The TAT is popularly known as the picture interpretation technique because it uses a series of provocative yet a ambiguous pictures about which the subject is asked to tell a story.
The Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF), is a self-report personality test developed over several decades of empirical research by Raymond B. Cattell, Maurice Tatsuoka and Herbert Eber. The 16PF provides a measure of normal personality and can also be used by psychologists, and other mental health professionals, as a clinical instrument to help diagnose psychiatric disorders, as well as help with prognosis and therapy planning.
The Draw-a-Person test (DAP, DAP test or Goodenough-Harris Draw-a-Person test) is a psychological projective personality or cognitive test used to evaluate children and adolescents for a variety of purposes.
All the tests are psychometric tests except for the Raven's test which is a non-verbal test used to measure to measure the fluid intelligence in an individual.

Directions(Q.Nos. 1-30) Answer the following questions by selecting the correct / most appropriate options.

72 The median of 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 is

The median of the given numbers is 9.5. Median is the number that falls in the middle of the distribution. Basically what has to be done is to add two middle numbers together (9+10), then that number will always have to be divided by 2. 9+10=19 Divide by 2 192= 9.5

73 Who has propounded the theory of insight?

This theory is also called Gestalt Theory of Learning. An explanation of Gestalt School of Psychology. The word 'Gestalt' in German language means 'whole', 'total pattern' or 'configuration'. This school believes that the whole is more important than the parts. So learning also takes place as a whole'. In this respect Kohlar performed a number of experiments on monkeys, and arrived at the result that highest types of learning is through insight. Learning by insight means sudden grasping of the solution, a flash of understanding, without any process of trial and error. All discoveries and inventions have taken place through insight. Of course the discoverer possessed a complete knowledge of the whole situation in peace-meal.

74 According to McDougall, every instinct is associated with

According to Dougall every instinct is associated with emotion. In other words, it is emotions which guide us to instinct. Each of the principal instincts conditions, then, some one kind of emotional excitement whose quality is specific or peculiar to it; and the emotional excitement of specific quality that is the affective aspect of the operation of anyone of the principal instincts may be called a primary emotion.

75 Giving the meaning to sensation on the basis of past experience is called

Perception is defined as the active process of selecting, organising, and interpreting the information brought to the brain by the senses. Perception varies from one individual to the next and is largely based on past experiences. Sensation and perception are vital parts of how we make contact with the outside world. Sensations can be defined as the passive process of bringing information from the outside world into the body and to the brain. The process is passive in the sense that we do not have to be consciously engaging in a 'sensing' process.