Practice

Understanding the Child — Practice

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Q1. Growth refers to increase in size — height, weight and length — which brings about which kind of change?
- A. Qualitative change
- B. Quantitative change
- C. Functional change
- D. Behavioural change
Q2. Which of the following statements about development is correct ?
- A. Development stops at maturity
- B. Development continues throughout the span of life
- C. Development is the same as physical change only
- D. Development is fully observable and measurable
Q3. Fill in the blank using this wording: 'A part of development is ______.'
- A. growth
- B. maturation
- C. learning
- D. heredity
Q4. The principle that development proceeds from head to limbs along the longitudinal axis is called
- A. Proximodistal
- B. Cephalo-caudal
- C. Integration
- D. Predictability
Q5. The proximodistal principle of development means development proceeds from
- A. Head to limbs
- B. Periphery to centre
- C. Centre to periphery
- D. Limbs to head
Q6. The process of development is continuous — from
- A. Birth to adulthood
- B. Womb to tomb
- C. Childhood to adolescence
- D. Conception to puberty
Q7. Under the principle of individual difference, the material states that
- A. Boys mature earlier than girls
- B. Girls mature earlier than boys
- C. Boys and girls mature at the same rate
- D. Maturity has no link with sex
Q8. The contribution transferred to the offspring from its immediate parents in the form of genes and chromosomes at the time of conception is called
- A. Environmental factor
- B. Biological factor
- C. Hereditary factor
- D. Social factor
Q9. Endocrine or ductless glands influence growth and development by secreting chemicals known as
- A. Enzymes
- B. Hormones
- C. Antibodies
- D. Neurotransmitters
Q10. Ms. Sharma, a primary teacher in Rampur, is told that a child's external environment begins to influence growth right from which point?
- A. The day of birth
- B. Inside the mother's womb
- C. When the child starts school
- D. When the child learns to walk
Q11. The stage of infancy covers which age range?
- A. Birth to 1 year
- B. Birth to 2 years
- C. Birth to 3 years
- D. 1 to 5 years
Q12. Priya, a class 3 student in a Bihar village school, is 8 years old. she is in which stage of development?
- A. Infancy
- B. Early childhood
- C. Later childhood
- D. Adolescence
Q13. Later childhood (6 to 12 years) is also called the 'gang age' because
- A. Children become criminals
- B. Children form peer groups of their own sex and remain outside home
- C. Children leave their parents permanently
- D. Children become physically aggressive
Q14. Human beings are at birth
- A. Born moral
- B. Born immoral
- C. Neither moral nor immoral
- D. Born fully ethical
Q15. Among the educational implications of later-childhood stage listed in the material, which of these is a direct instruction to the teacher?
- A. Compare boys with girls regularly
- B. Do not compare boys with girls
- C. Treat all children identically without noticing individuality
- D. Discourage gang membership

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