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 )
THE END
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
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 ?
THE END
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” ?
THE END
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