OTET Paper 2 Mock Test - 9 (Social Science) - OTET MCQ

According to the question girl’s parents are sportspersons and she obtained training from coaching. Both of her parents are sportspersons. So, we can say that her capabilities depend on heredity and the environment.

• The individual’s personality is the product of both heredity and environment.
• Heredity determines a child's potential, while the Environment influences the extent to which that potential is achieved.

Role of Heredity and Environment:

So, from the points, as mentioned above, it becomes clear that the girl's capabilities are most likely to be the result of an interaction between heredity and the environment.

Social development is a result of the environment in which the child moves. The moral, physical and cognitive developments are the functions of heredity and environment both and not the functions of maturation. Cognitive development of the child depends upon the interaction between heredity and environment. Intelligence is a part of the cognitive domain of the child. Due to heredity, a child's nurturance is held in the environment in which he moves. According to the question, in the last few decades, a child's performance is consistently increasing in IQ.

Constructivist pedagogy places the child at the centre of the learning, and can also be referred to as ‘invisible pedagogy’. It is an approach to learning in which learners are provided the opportunity to construct their own sense of what is being learned by building internal connection or relationship among the ideas and facts being taught.” 

Knowing that objects and people exist even when you can't see or hear them is an important part of object permanence. Jean Piaget, a child psychologist, was the first to uncover this notion, and it is a critical milestone in a baby's brain development.
The capacity of a youngster to perceive that items remain even after they are no longer visible or audible is referred to as object permanence. When an object is concealed from view, infants under a particular age are frequently distressed that it has disappeared.

What did you eat in dinner yesterday? What is the name of your best friend? Do you know how to drive a car or ride a cycle? How did you feel when you got highest marks in your class? The mental process you used to answer all of these questions is known as memory.

• Memory refers to the ability to retain information and reproduce it over a period of time when required to perform a cognitive task. 
• Woodsworth says that “Memory consists in remembering what has previously been learned.”
• He regards memory as involving learning, retention, recall, and recognition of objects, events, or things.

​Thus, from the above-mentioned points, it is clear that the learning and experiences are stored in the brain by an individual for a period is called memory.

लिंग्वाफोन: भाषा बोलना एक सक्रिय कौशल है, जिसे आप केवल अध्ययन करके नहीं बल्कि करके सीखते हैं। यह भाषा सीखने के लिए लिंग्वाफोन द्वारा अपनाया गया व्यावहारिक दृष्टिकोण है। लिंग्वाफोन भाषा को समझने में सक्षम बनाता है और भाषा बोलने वाले वास्तविक लोगों के साथ बातचीत करने और समझने में सक्षम है। यह उच्चारण, उच्चारण और इंटोनेशन सिखाने में मदद करता है।
इसलिए, यह स्पष्ट हो जाता है कि लिंग्वाफोन अंग्रेजी उच्चारण, उच्चारण और इंटोनेशन सिखाने में बहुत उपयोगी है।

'वसुधा' के अन्य समानार्थी शब्द 'धरित्री, क्षिति, उर्वी, भूमि, धरती, पृथ्वी, भू, धरणी, अचला, धरा, जमीन, रत्नगर्भा, मही' आदि हैं। 
'महीप' का समानार्थी शब्द राजा है। 'वारिधि' और 'जलधि' समुद्र के समानार्थी शब्द हैं।
इस प्रकार सही विकल्प 'वसुंधरा' है।

'बुभुक्षित' शब्द के लिए वाक्यांश 'जो अत्यधिक भूखा हो' है। शेष विकल्प असंगत हैं। अतः सही विकल्प 'जो अत्यधिक भूखा हो' है।

बहुभाषिकता उपरोक्त सभी का परिचायक है।
बहुभाषी कक्षा से तात्पर्य एक ऐसी कक्षा से है जिसमें दो से अधिक प्रकार की बोली जाने वाली भाषा के छात्रों की उपलबध्ता हो और साथ में उन्हें अपनी-अपनी भाषा में बोलनें के अवसरों की भी उपलब्धता हो।

• बहु-भाषिकता भारत की संस्कृति का अभिन्न अंग है। भारत एक बहुभाषी देश है।
• यह भारत की समस्या नहीं बल्कि संज्ञानात्मक विकास के लिए अच्छा संसाधन  है।
• बहु-भाषिकता पर हुए अध्ययनों से स्पष्ट हुआ है कि बहु-भाषिकता समाज में संप्रेषण को बाधित करने के बजाय सहायता प्रदान करती है।
• बच्चों की गृहभाषा के प्रयोग को सम्मान देती है।
• बच्चों को उनकी मातृभाषा में कहने सुनने की आजादी देती है।
• बहु-भाषिक बच्चों की वैचारिक क्षमता अन्य बच्चों की तुलना में अच्छी होती है।
• कक्षा में विभिन्न भाषाों का प्रयोग करना सांस्कृति आदान प्रदान का भी माध्यम है।
• कक्षा में बच्चें अलग-अलग भाषायी- सांस्कृतिक पृष्ठभूमी से आते हैं।
• कक्षा में सभी बच्चों की भाषा को उचित स्थान देना हि, बहु-भाषिकता है। 
• बहु-भाषिकता, बच्चे की अस्मिता का निर्माण करती है।
• बहु-भाषिकता पर हुए अध्ययनों से पता चलता है, कि बहुभाषिकता बच्चों की संज्ञानात्मक विकास, सामाजिक सहिष्णुता, विस्तृत चिंतन एवं बौद्धिक उपलब्धियों के स्तर को बढ़ाती है।

'Each hive is a commonwealth' means the hive is self-governing.
'Commonwealth' means a self-governing territory. Here, it signifies self-governance.

According to the line given in the passage, Since the understanding of causal connections is usually limited on this level of existence, the human soul forges a being, more or less like itself, on whose will and activities depend on the experiences which it fears.
'forges' means "create something strong or successful".
Here, the speaker says that human has forged something in his mind which is similar to himself most probably his fears. The concept of God is a creation of the human mind- this sentence is correct because 'God' is one of the fears of a human mind which is mentioned in the passage.
The First statement 'that ghosts and witches are a creation of the human mind'- this statement is also correct because of the phrase causal connections.

• "Democratized" in the given passage means making something accessible and available to everyone, often associated with equal rights and opportunities.
  Ex -  The democratized education system ensured equal access to quality education for all students.
• "Controlled," implies the opposite, indicating the exercise of authority or restriction on access or availability.
  Ex - The controlled distribution of resources limited the opportunities for economic growth.

Therefore, the correct answer is Option 1.

Language teaching is the process whereby a child gains communicative comprehension or fluency over a language. It involves practice by learners where facilitation is provided by a teacher. Some of the Principles of Language Teaching are the Principle of Imitation, the Principle of Graded Patterns, Principle of Selection and graduation, etc.
Principle of Multi-Skills:

• All four language skills are to be given their due importance when learning or teaching them.
• No skill should be overemphasized or neglected and it should be taught in an integrated manner.
• So, when a language teacher laid emphasis that a language is best learned when a child is able to use all the basic skills of a language naturally and no skill should be overemphasized or neglected. Then he is following the principle of multi-skills.

Thus, it is clear that in the above-given scenario the teacher is using the principle of multi-skills.

Social deviance, broadly defined, applies to any behavior, belief, or appearance that violates prevailing social norms.

When one reads at the top of one’s voice, usually to make other people in the vicinity hear what is being read, is known as loud reading. It is also known as oral reading. This process helps students develop vocabulary and improve pronunciation. It also develops confidence among students. It increases your imagination power and also improves your spellings.

A man on a motor vehicle reached a junction and there are roads in front of him in a 'V' shape. This junction is called a 'Y' junction.

In Bengal, temples and other religious structures were often built by individuals or groups who were becoming powerful in order to demonstrate their power, proclaim their piety and gain followers.

Application refers to solving problems by applying acquired knowledge, facts, techniques and rules in a different way. The teacher is encouraging 'application' as defined in the Bloom's taxonomy. The students will be able to apply their already learned knowledge to understand a new concept. So, this is the correct answer.

• The story of Maynamati and Gopichandra is a part of Nath literature.
• Maynamati-Gopichandrer Gan is the story of Queen Maynamati and her husband, Manik Chandra, that propagates yoga guidelines.

'Prashasti' is a Sanskrit word, which means 'in praise of'. Generally, it is an inscription written in praise of rulers. These were probably meant to impress the ruling elite. The poets or scholars wrote 'prashastis', and not the kings themselves.

The role of the government in influencing population health is not limited to the health sector but also to various sectors outside the health systems. Health system strengthening, human resource development and capacity building and regulation in public health are important areas within the health sector.

Everything in Earth's system can be placed into one of four major subsystems: land, water, living things or air. These four subsystems are called "spheres." Specifically, they are the "lithosphere" (land), "hydrosphere" (water), "biosphere" (living things) and "atmosphere" (air).

Globe is the most suitable teaching aid to show proportionate size and shape of continents. The globe resembles the earth in its shape. So, it becomes easier for the students to clearly understand the shape of continents.

Assertion (A) : The air is cold in areas having lower temperature.

• The temperature of the air is related to the temperature of the surrounding environment.
• In areas having a lower temperature, the air is colder because it is in contact with colder surfaces and loses heat to those surfaces, causing its temperature to decrease.

Reason (R) : Air is heavy in cold areas. justify pointwise

• On the other hand, Reason (R) is incorrect.
• Air is not heavy in cold areas. In fact, cold air is denser than warm air, which means that it is heavier per unit volume.
• However, the weight of air in a given volume does not change with temperature.
• The weight of air is dependent on its pressure, and the pressure of air is determined by its temperature and altitude. Therefore, the statement that "air is heavy in cold areas" is incorrect.

'Kusi Nagara' is an important Buddhist pilgrimage site, where Buddhists believe Gautama Buddha attained 'Parinirvana' after his death.

The Inquiry Training Model of teaching was developed by Richard Suchman. Inquiry-based learning is primarily a pedagogical method developed during the discovery learning movement of the 1960s as a response to traditional forms of instruction.

The latitudes and longitudes are commonly referred to as geographical coordinates as they provide a systematic network of lines upon which the position of various surface features of the earth, can be represented.

Art integrated learning is a creative and constructive teaching-learning approach through which the students demonstrate their understanding of a concept through various art forms.

• It signifies exploration of academic content and skill sets to be acquired by a student through the lens of various forms of arts.

An amphora is a jar with two vertical handles used in antiquity for the storage and transportation of foodstuffs such as wine and olive oil. The name derives from the Greek amphi-phoreus meaning 'carried on both sides'.

A student who asks questions of his/her teacher, shows a sense of interest in the subject. It can be used to assess his/her attitudes and values.