Understanding the Child — Hard

Q1. Consider the two statements based on the growth-vs-development table. Statement A: A child can grow taller and heavier without any corresponding change in behaviour or character. Statement B: Development always brings a measurable increase in size and weight. Which is correct?

• A. Both A and B are correct
• B. A is correct, B is incorrect
• C. A is incorrect, B is correct
• D. Both A and B are incorrect

Q2. Which of the following is NOT a principle of growth and development as listed in the material?

• A. Development follows a pattern
• B. Rate of growth and development is not uniform
• C. Development is identical for every child regardless of culture
• D. Development is continuous from womb to tomb

Q3. A class 2 teacher first shows the whole shape of the letter 'क', then breaks it into strokes (vertical, horizontal, curve), then asks children to combine the strokes back to form 'क'., this teaching sequence directly applies the principle of

• A. Cephalo-caudal direction
• B. Integration — whole to parts to whole
• C. Continuous development
• D. Predictability of rate

Q4. Assertion (A): A paediatrician can give parents an approximate forecast of how tall their 4-year-old will be at adulthood. Reason (R): the material lists 'predictability of rate of growth and development' as one of the nine principles. Which is correct?

• A. Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A
• B. Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A
• C. A is true, R is false
• D. A is false, R is true

Q5. Two seven-year-old children, Aman and Bilal, receive identical nutrition, schooling and parental care. Aman is fully grown for his age while Bilal lags behind. the material would BEST attribute the difference to

• A. Quality of schooling
• B. Peer group relationships
• C. Biological/constitutional make-up — internal organs and glands functioning
• D. Government policies on children

Q6. Statement A:, peer-group relationships are an external factor in growth and development from later childhood onwards. Statement B: The same unit places intelligence and emotional adjustability among external factors. Which is correct?

• A. Both A and B are correct
• B. A is correct, B is incorrect
• C. A is incorrect, B is correct
• D. Both A and B are incorrect

Q7. Heredity totally determines an individual's: (i) Sex (ii) Gender (iii) Quality of schooling (iv) Family income. According to the classification of internal vs external factors, the correct option is

• A. (i) only
• B. (i) and (ii)
• C. (i), (iii) and (iv)
• D. (ii), (iii) and (iv)

Q8. An 18-month-old child watches her mother hide a rattle under a cloth and immediately lifts the cloth to pick the rattle. According to the account of infancy (birth–2 years), this behaviour shows

• A. Formal operations
• B. Concrete operations
• C. Object permanence and goal-directed behaviour
• D. Egocentric symbolic play

Q9. Which of the following statements about later childhood (6–12 years), is NOT correct?

• A. Girls are usually about two years physiologically ahead of boys
• B. Children become loyal to a peer group of the same sex
• C. Logical thinking develops mostly with concrete objects
• D. Children form abstract scientific theories with ease

Q10. In which of the following periods does physical growth and development occur at a rapid pace, ?

• A. Infancy and early childhood
• B. Early childhood and later childhood
• C. Later childhood and old age
• D. Adolescence and adulthood

Q11. Riya, aged 4, has begun saying 'no' to almost every instruction and resists being dressed by her mother — a behaviour her teacher in Rampur calls 'the negative period.', this stage of negativism is typically observed in

• A. Infancy (birth–2)
• B. Early childhood (3–6)
• C. Later childhood (6–12)
• D. Adolescence (12–19)

Q12. A young child's moral conduct is at first guided by the 'pleasure-pain principle.' Which of the following best describes its working as per the unit?

• A. The child acts to maximise long-term ethical good even when no one is watching
• B. The child does what brings pleasure or appreciation and avoids what brings pain or scolding
• C. The child obeys only written rules from textbooks
• D. The child cannot tell the difference between right and wrong at any age

Q13. A primary teacher in a Bihar village school plans her year so that physical games, group projects, story-telling and moral-value circle-time get equal weight every week., she is most directly applying which educational implication?

• A. Use the same teaching style for every age group
• B. Provide harmonious development by drawing on the interrelationship of dimensions
• C. Treat every child identically without noticing individuality
• D. Limit teaching to academic subjects to avoid distractions

Q14. An 8-year-old class 3 student frequently throws angry outbursts when corrected in front of peers. Drawing on the educational implications, the teacher should

• A. Punish the child publicly to set an example
• B. Ignore the behaviour completely as a passing phase
• C. Try to diagnose the cause, treat the child calmly, and not compare with peers
• D. Send the child away from school until the behaviour stops

Q15. During the period of childhood, development

• A. is slow and cannot be measured at all
• B. is multi-layered and complex, involving improvement in the functioning of organs
• C. consists only of quantitative changes in size
• D. is disorderly and unpredictable