Thursday, March 31, 2011

Dip. in Primary Education Education psychology


Lyceum  Academy  for  Teacher  Education
Diploma  in  Primary  Education
Child Psychology
Final Examination   -  Batch : 08 ( 2009 - 2010 )
Time :    2½ Hours
Instructions :  Answer 05 questions only.

(01.)    Define four of the following terms.
           i.       Maturation                                                            v.         Personality                   
           ii.      Emotion                                                                vi.         Learning
           iii.     Motivation                                                            vii.        Psychology      
           iv.     Intelligence                                                                        ( 4 x 5 = 20 marks )

(02.)    Why is that a knowledge of child psychology is necessary for a Primary School teacher ?                                                                                        ( 20 marks )

(03.)    Write short notes on any five child study methods.
           i.       Case Study                                                           v.         Vertical
           ii.      Survey                                                                  vi.         Psychological Testing
           iii.     Experimental                                                         vii.        Correlational Method
           iv.     Observation                                                                     ( 5 x 4 = 20 marks )
          
(04.)    Write short notes on any four of the following perspectives.
           i.       Behaviouristic                                                       iv.         Humanistic       
           ii.      Psychoanalytical                                                    v.         Cognitive
           iii.     Biological                                                              ( 5 x 4 = 20 marks )                                                   
(05.)    Explain how the Gestalt Theory can be applied in the classroom situation.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    ( 20 marks )
          
(06.)    Explain how the following behaviouristic learning theories can be applied in the classroom situation.
           i.       Ivan Pavlo’s Classical Conditioning.
           ii.      Skinner’s Operant Conditioning.                                        ( 20 marks )

(07.)    Name the following :
           i.       Phsycho-sexual Stages of Freud                                                    ( 05 marks )
           ii.      Moral Stages of Kohlberg                                                 ( 03 marks )
           iii.     Moral Stages of Piaget                                                                  ( 02 marks )
           iv.     Psycho-social Stages of Erikson upto adulthood                ( 05 marks )
           v.      Intellectual Development of Piaget                                     ( 05 marks )
                                                                                                            ( Total 20 marks )
(08.)    Understand the following chart and identify the characteristics of children in the later childhood period in the following areas of development as given by those psychologists.                                                                                         ( 20 marks )

Early Childhood Period 6 - 11 years
Psycho-sexual
Cognitive
Psycho Social
Moral
Freud
Piaget / Vygotsky
Erikson
Piaget / Kohlberg


(09.)    What are the methods of motivating children in the primary school ?(  20 marks )


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Lyceum  Academy  for  Teacher  Education
Diploma  in  Primary  Education
Child Psychology
Final Examination   -  Batch : 09 ( 2009 - 2010 )
Time :    2½ Hours
Instructions : 
Answer 03 questions from Part - I and 02 Questions from Part - II.

PART - I

(01.)    Define four of the following terms.
           i.       Maturation                                                            v.         Personality                   
           ii.      Emotion                                                                vi.         Learning
           iii.     Motivation                                                            vii.        Psychology      
           iv.     Intelligence                                                                        ( 4 x 5 = 20 marks )

(02.)    Why is that a knowledge of child psychology is necessary for a Primary School teacher ?                                                                                        ( 20 marks )

(03.)    Write short notes on any five child study methods.
           i.       Case Study                                                           v.         Vertical
           ii.      Survey                                                                  vi.         Psychological Testing
           iii.     Experimental                                                         vii.        Correlational Method
           iv.     Observation                                                                      ( 5 x 4 = 20 marks )
          
(04.)    Write short notes on any four of the following perspectives.
           i.       Behaviouristic                                                       iv.         Humanistic                   
           ii.      Psychoanalytical                                                    v.         Cognitive
           iii.     Biological                                                              ( 5 x 4 = 20 marks )                                                   
(05.)    Identify the characteristics of children in the later childhood period of 6 - 11 years in the following areas of development.
           i.       Cognitive                                                              iii.         Social
           ii.      Psycho-sexual                                                       iv.         Moral
                                                                                                            ( 4 x 5 = 20 marks )

PART - II

(06.)    Identify the following two behaviouristic learning theories and explain how they can be applied in the classroom situation.
           i.       Ivan Pavlo’s Classical Conditioning.
           ii.      Skinner’s Operant Conditioning.                                        ( 20 marks )
                                                                                                                                                           

(07.)    Explain how the Gestalt Theory can be applied in the classroom situation.
                                                                                                                        ( 20 marks )
          
(08.)    Name the following :
           i.       Phsycho-sexual Stages of Freud                                                    ( 05 marks )
           ii.      Moral Stages of Kohlberg                                                 ( 03 marks )
           iii.     Moral Stages of Piaget                                                                  ( 02 marks )
           iv.     Psycho-social Stages of Erikson upto adulthood                ( 05 marks )
           v.      Intellectual Development of Piaget                                     ( 05 marks )
                                                                                                            ( Total 20 marks )


(09.)    Write short notes on the following
           i.       Memory
           ii.      Why we forget ?
           iii.     How to enhance memorny ?
           iv.     Amnesia.                                                              ( 4 x 5 = 20 marks )


(10.)    What are the methods of motivating children in the primary school ?(  20 marks )




THE  END

Lyceum  Academy  for  Teacher  Education
Diploma  in  Primary  Education
Child Psychology
Final Examination   -  Batch : 10 ( 2010 - 2011)
Time :    2½ Hours
 Instructions :  Answer all questions. 05 marks each.

(01.)    Define the two following terms.
           i.       Psychology
           ii.      Learning                                                                                      

(02.)    Give five reasons as to why a primary school teacher should have a knowledge of Educational Psychology.                                                                                             
(03.)    Write short notes on the following child study methods.
           i.       Case Study                                                          
           ii.      Experimental Method                                                                   
          
(04.)    Write short notes on the following two perspective of psychology.
           i.       Behaviouristic                                                                              
           ii.      Psycho-analytical 
                                                                                               
(05.)    Identify the characteristics of children in the later childhood period of 6 - 11 years in moral development.

(06.)    Identify the characteristics of children in later childhood period in cognitive development.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

(07.)    Identify the characteristics of children in later childhood period in psycho-sexual development.
                                                                                                                                   
(08.)    Identify the characteristics of children in later childhood in social development.                                                    


(09.)    Name briefly the steps of scientific method.                                           

(10.)    Define the following,
           i.       Development
           ii.      Personality                                                                                               

(11.)    Explain the learning theory of thorndike.                                                

(12.)    What do you mean by transfer of learning ?                               

(13.)    What do you mean by cognitive learning ?

(14.)    What is understood by the following statement “If you want to teach Latin to John you should not only know Latin, but also John ?

(15.)    Explain briefly the pre-operational period of Piaget ?

(16.)    Define the terms,
           i.       Motivation
           ii.      Emotion

(17.)    What do you know of maturation in Psychology ?

(18.)    What is meant by Nature vs Nurture controversy ?

(19.)    Why do children forget ?

(20.)    How do you calculate mental age ?



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Lyceum  Academy  for  Teacher  Education
Diploma  in  Primary  Education
Child Psychology
Final Examination   -  Batch No. 11 - W ( 2010 / 2011 )
Time :    2½ Hours
Instructions :  Answer only 20 questions only. Five marks for each answer.

PART - I
Answer all questions
(01.)    Define the term Educational Psychology.

(02.)    Define the term Child Psychology.

(03.)    What is meant by Scientific Method ?
          
(04.)    Define the term Learning.
                                   
(05.)    What is meant by Nature Vs Nurture Controversy ?

(06.)    Give 05 reasons as to why a primary education teacher should learn child psychology.
                                                                                                                                                           

(07.)    Name 05 research methods in educational psychology.

(08.)    Name 05 perspectives of psychology.

(09.)    Name the main areas of Piaget’s Cognitive Development.

(10.)    Name 05 psycho-sexual Development Stages of Sigmund Freud.

(11.)    Write a short note on Kohlberg’s Moral Development of Children.

(12.)    Write a short note on Erik Erikson’s Psycho-social development of children.

(13.)    How did Pavlo explain his classical conditioning ?

(14.)    What is meant by Operant Conditioning ?
            
(15.)    Write a short note on Gestalt Learning of Kofka, Kohler & Wertheimer.

(16.)    What are the 03 main points in Jerome Bruner’s theory of instruction ?
          
(17.)    What are Gagne’s 08 types of learning ?

(18.)    What are the 09 events of a lesson as explained by Gagne ?

(19.)    What is meant by deductive and inductive reasoning as explained by Osubel ?

(20.)    What is meant by Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) and scaffolding in instruction as explained by Vygotsky ?

(21.)    Define the term intelligence.

(22.)    Name five theories of intelligence.

(23.)    How did Alfred Binet calculate the mental age ?

(24.)    What are the three areas of Blooms taxonomy ?

(25.)    What are the competencies of Bloom’s cognitive domain ?

(26.)    Write four examples for stimulus motive and write 02 actions you would take to motivate children in  any area of the stimulus motive.

(27.)    What is the meaning of the term “transfer of learning” ?


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