CDP Test- 15 - CTET & State TET MCQ

The correct answer is option C, i.e., Jean Piaget. He proposed that children’s thinking is qualitatively different from that of adults.According to Jean Piaget, children’s view of the world changes as he/she grow. Children learn language through assimilation and accommodation. Piaget believed that a child’s mental development occurs before language acquisition. His theory suggest that cognitive abilities of children affect their understanding of the social world.

Dewey suggests that reflective thinking is an active, persistent, and careful consideration of a belief or supposed form of knowledge, of the grounds that support that knowledge, and the further conclusions to which that knowledge leads. Learners are aware of and control their learning by actively participating in reflective thinking – assessing what they know, what they need to know, and how they bridge that gap – during learning situations.

Vygotsky focused on social interaction, according to him society plays an important role in the development of a child and language is an important part of development. Language is a social concept. It is developed through social interaction.

The new version Alfred Binet‘s test included a variety of tasks they thought represented a child's abilities at various ages. For example, it was considered age-appropriate for a 5-year-old child to explain how a fork is used, or a 12-year-old to solve a particular mathematical problem. The child would then be given an age-specific version of the test that also included easier and more difficult tasks, indicative of younger and older children's abilities. If an 8-year-old boy, for example, passed all of the tasks for his age but none of the more advanced tasks, he would be considered average.

Except D. other options are correct about socialization. Socialization is a life-long process, it is a continuous process and it does not cease when a child becomes an adult. Socialization never stops it continues throughout the life.

Intellectual giftedness is an intellectual ability significantly higher than average. There is no generally agreed definition of giftedness for either children or adults, but most school placement decisions and most longitudinal studies over the course of individual lives have been based on IQ in the top 2 percent of the population, that is above IQ 130. The highest reported standard score for most IQ tests is IQ 160, approximately the 99.997th percentile (leaving aside the issue of the considerable error in measurement at that level of IQ on any IQ test).

The speech which is used by the child internally, to regulate thoughts is known as inner speech. For example, while watching T.V. children usually talk to themselves which is audible to other people also, this speech is known as social speech, when they are grown up as adults this speech changes into a silent speech, now that audible voice is absent and they use their cognitive process to solve problems. This silent speech is known as inner speech.

During the early childhood stage, the intellectual abilities and motor coordination of the child improves. Due to a sudden mental development the child undergoes the phase of curiosity motive and always have the questions like-'why', 'what','where', etc. The child depending on the stimulus always asks the exlporatory questions.

Lev Vygotsky considered private speech (directed to the self) as the transition point between social speech (used to talk to others) and inner speech (private speech goes underground, diminishing in audibility and is transformed into inner speech) , the moment in development where language and thought unite to constitute verbal thinking.

To cater to individual differences a teacher should always bring variation in the teaching methods. Children learn in different ways, so a teacher should teach through different teaching approaches like collaborative learning, activity method, experiment method, project method etc.