both within and outside the school

A gifted child is never defined as one

Whose performance is consistently remarkable in music, art, social leadership and other forms of expression

Whose ability is within the range of the upper two per cent to three per cent of the population

Who is extremely different from others of his age

Psychopathology in mental retardation

Can vary depending on the cognitive and intellectual ability

Can vary depending on the level of communication

Observation and information from carer is an important diagnostic necessity

Identify the sequence which correctly indicates the order for ensuring teaching-learning activities in a a constructivist approach:

Explore, Explain, Engage, Extend and Evaluate

Evaluate, Extend, Engage, Explain and Explore

Explain, Engage, Explore, Evaluate and Extend

Engage, Explore, Explain, Extend and Evaluate

People with a learning disability

Cannot have severe impairments in one particular area

Cannot have a particular area of higher skill

Can have severe impairments in one area and particular areas of higher skill

Error of learners often indicate

the need for a mechanical drill

socio-economic status of the learners

People with moderate mental retardation usually have

Self-care and motor skills are good

Limited language and comprehension skills

Self-care and motor skills are good

They cannot learn the basic skills of reading, writing or counting

As adults cannot do simple structured practical work

For encouraging 'learning to learn', the emphasis on which of the following would be most appropriate?

Assigning tasks to be mastered by students

Use of educational technology gadgets

Organizing teaching to increase opportunity for transfer of learning

Assigning tasks to be mastered by students

Children learn through

experience, experimentation, making and doing things etc.

reading, discussion, listening, thinking and reflecting etc.

expressing oneself in speech writing etc.

Current understanding of the concept of mental retardation in psychiatry does not

Needs to meet criteria of impairment and dysfunction to be called a disorder

Etiological understanding of intelligence and its impairment

Assessment methods and management of associated comorbidity

Not clinically recognized as a developmental disorder

Needs to meet criteria of impairment and dysfunction to be called a disorder

In People with severe mental retardation

The cause is unlikely to be of organic aetiology

Often do not have motor impairment or other neuropsychiatric sequelae

Clinical picture is similar to moderate mental retardation

Play has a significant role in development of young children for the following reasons, EXCEPT:‐

They acquire new skills and learn when to use them

They gain mastery over their body

It is just a pleasant way to spend time

They acquire new skills and learn when to use them

Learning by doing is important as it:-

Creates interest among children

A dynamic approach to learning implies

The topics should be constantly changed for novelty

Teachers should be dynamic and energetic

The students should be required to learn through activities

The topics should be constantly changed for novelty

An intelligent student is found to be generally too slow in mastering vocabulary. Which of the following reason given below can be considered as genuine?

Afraid of speaking before the other students

Lack of interest in learning language

Learning disability specific to language acquisition

Afraid of speaking before the other students

For optimising self-learning which of the following motivational principles will be most helpful?

Promoting concerns for meeting status needs

Creating scope for fulfilling relatedness need

Providing scope for satisfying the need for competence

Promoting concerns for meeting status needs

Choose the most appropriate optionInductive method of teaching grammar involves-

presentation of rules before presentation of examples

presentation of examples before deriving rules with the help of learners

People with mild mental retardation usually

Cannot engage in clinical interview

Cannot achieve full independence

Main difficulties are with regard to academic school work

Educationist and their special educational contribution — choosecorrect : (A) Louis Braille (1) Handicapped learners (B) Helen Kellar (2) Deaf learners (C) Thomas Edison (3) Dumb and Deaf learners (D) Lal Adwani (4) Blind learners

A - (2), B - (1), C - (3), D - (4)

A - (2), B - (4), C - (1), D - (3)

A - (3), B - (2), C - (4), D - (1)

A - (4), B - (3), C - (2), D - (1)

A - (2), B - (1), C - (3), D - (4)

42 + Mcqs in Characteristics Of Learners in Education and Teaching Page 1 McqOptions

1.	Creativity means:
A.	Divergent thinking
B.	Convergent thinking
C.	Reflective thinking
D.	Associative thinking
Answer» B. Convergent thinking

Discussion

2.	Match correctly the items of column-I with the items of column-IIColumn-IColumn-IIA) Dyslexiai) Difficulty in doing mathematicsB) Dysgraphiaii) Difficulty in readingC) Dyscalculiaiii) Difficulty in WritingD) ADHDiv) Difficulty in concentrating
A.	A-i, B-iii, C-iv, D-ii
B.	A-ii, B-iii, C-i, D-iv
C.	A-iv, B-i, C-iii, D-ii
D.	A-i, B-iv, C-ii, D-iii
Answer» C. A-iv, B-i, C-iii, D-ii

Discussion

3.	Learning takes place
A.	in the school
B.	outside the school
C.	both within and outside the school
D.	only in the classroom
Answer» D. only in the classroom

Discussion

4.	A gifted child is never defined as one
A.	Whose IQ is 140 or above
B.	Whose performance is consistently remarkable in music, art, social leadership and other forms of expression
C.	Whose ability is within the range of the upper two per cent to three per cent of the population
D.	Who is extremely different from others of his age
Answer» E.

Discussion

5.	Psychopathology in mental retardation
A.	Can vary depending on the cognitive and intellectual ability
B.	Can vary depending on the level of communication
C.	Observation and information from carer is an important diagnostic necessity
D.	All the above
Answer» E.

Discussion

6.	Positive facilitation of present learning through past learning, for example addition helps multiplication. This type of transfer of learning is called-
A.	Conditional transfer
B.	Sequential transfer
C.	Bilateral transfer
D.	Vertical transfer
Answer» C. Bilateral transfer

Discussion

7.	Critical thinking is induced by:‐
A.	Fore brain
B.	Right brain
C.	Left brain
D.	Hind brain
Answer» B. Right brain

Discussion

8.	Learner communication has relatively high potential of challenging
A.	Teaching as profession
B.	Innovative and creative ideas
C.	Methods of evaluation
D.	Long-held attitudes
Answer» E.

Discussion

9.	Identify the sequence which correctly indicates the order for ensuring teaching-learning activities in a a constructivist approach:
A.	Explore, Explain, Engage, Extend and Evaluate
B.	Evaluate, Extend, Engage, Explain and Explore
C.	Explain, Engage, Explore, Evaluate and Extend
D.	Engage, Explore, Explain, Extend and Evaluate
Answer» E.

Discussion

10.	People with a learning disability
A.	Cannot have severe impairments in one particular area
B.	Cannot have a particular area of higher skill
C.	Can have severe impairments in one area and particular areas of higher skill
D.	All of the above
Answer» D. All of the above

Discussion

11.	An example of a Developmental Disorder is
A.	Mental Retardation
B.	Dyslexia
C.	ADHD
D.	Autistic Spectrum disorders
Answer» E.

Discussion

12.	Error of learners often indicate
A.	how they learn
B.	the need for a mechanical drill
C.	absence of learning
D.	socio-economic status of the learners
Answer» C. absence of learning

Discussion

13.	As per the cognitive development theory of Jean Piaget, adolescent students are in which stage of development?
A.	Sensory-motor stage
B.	Concrete operational stage
C.	Operational stage
D.	Formal operational stage
Answer» E.

Discussion

14.	People with moderate mental retardation usually have
A.	Limited language and comprehension skills
B.	Self-care and motor skills are good
C.	They cannot learn the basic skills of reading, writing or counting
D.	As adults cannot do simple structured practical work
Answer» B. Self-care and motor skills are good

Discussion

15.	One of the processes not involved in the formation of a concept is:
A.	Classification
B.	Abstraction
C.	Information
D.	Generalisation
Answer» D. Generalisation

Discussion

16.	For encouraging 'learning to learn', the emphasis on which of the following would be most appropriate?
A.	Use of educational technology gadgets
B.	Organizing teaching to increase opportunity for transfer of learning
C.	Assigning tasks to be mastered by students
D.	Frequent tests to be conduted
Answer» C. Assigning tasks to be mastered by students

Discussion

17.	A ‘state of cloudiness in the lens of the eye due to blockage of light’ is a symptom of which one of the following condition?
A.	Glaucoma
B.	Coloboma
C.	Cataract
D.	Crossed eyes
Answer» D. Crossed eyes

Discussion

18.	Children learn through
A.	experience, experimentation, making and doing things etc.
B.	reading, discussion, listening, thinking and reflecting etc.
C.	expressing oneself in speech writing etc.
D.	All the above
Answer» E.

Discussion

19.	In which method of arriving at knowledge the emphasis is on both proceeding from particular to general and from general to particular in a combined way?
A.	Inductive method
B.	Deductive method
C.	Scientific method
D.	Analogical method
Answer» D. Analogical method

Discussion

20.	Leprosy is also called
A.	Hartmann’s disease
B.	Hansen’s disease
C.	Humprey’s disease
D.	Harry’s disease
Answer» C. Humprey’s disease

Discussion

21.	Current understanding of the concept of mental retardation in psychiatry does not
A.	Etiological understanding of intelligence and its impairment
B.	Assessment methods and management of associated comorbidity
C.	Not clinically recognized as a developmental disorder
D.	Needs to meet criteria of impairment and dysfunction to be called a disorder
Answer» D. Needs to meet criteria of impairment and dysfunction to be called a disorder

Discussion

22.	In People with severe mental retardation
A.	The cause is unlikely to be of organic aetiology
B.	Often do not have motor impairment or other neuropsychiatric sequelae
C.	Have good academic achievement
D.	Clinical picture is similar to moderate mental retardation
Answer» E.

Discussion

23.	Play has a significant role in development of young children for the following reasons, EXCEPT:‐
A.	They gain mastery over their body
B.	It stimulates their senses
C.	It is just a pleasant way to spend time
D.	They acquire new skills and learn when to use them
Answer» D. They acquire new skills and learn when to use them

Discussion

24.	Learning by doing is important as it:-
A.	Creates interest among children
B.	Keeps children busy
C.	Helps to maintain discipline
D.	Promotes meaningful learning
Answer» B. Keeps children busy

Discussion

25.	A dynamic approach to learning implies
A.	Teachers should be dynamic and energetic
B.	The students should be required to learn through activities
C.	The topics should be constantly changed for novelty
D.	Teaching should be effective
Answer» C. The topics should be constantly changed for novelty

Discussion

26.	Inductive learning is contradictory to which one of the following approaches?
A.	Expository teaching
B.	Structure training
C.	Simulation
D.	Mastery learning
Answer» B. Structure training

Discussion

27.	In which of the following teaching method of science, rules, generalizations and principles are provided to the students and then they are asked to verify them with the help of particular examples?I. Inductive referenceII. Deductive reference
A.	Only I
B.	Both I and II
C.	Only II
D.	Neither I nor II
Answer» D. Neither I nor II

Discussion

28.	An intelligent student is found to be generally too slow in mastering vocabulary. Which of the following reason given below can be considered as genuine?
A.	Carelessness in studies
B.	Lack of interest in learning language
C.	Learning disability specific to language acquisition
D.	Afraid of speaking before the other students
Answer» D. Afraid of speaking before the other students

Discussion

29.	Essential component of learning is:‐
A.	Experience
B.	Maturation
C.	Teaching
D.	Objectives
Answer» E.

Discussion

30.	For optimising self-learning which of the following motivational principles will be most helpful?
A.	Using reward and punishment
B.	Creating scope for fulfilling relatedness need
C.	Providing scope for satisfying the need for competence
D.	Promoting concerns for meeting status needs
Answer» D. Promoting concerns for meeting status needs

Discussion

31.	Choose the most appropriate optionInductive method of teaching grammar involves-
A.	learning of rules by heart
B.	presentation of rules before presentation of examples
C.	presentation of examples before deriving rules with the help of learners
D.	neglecting rules altogether
Answer» B. presentation of rules before presentation of examples

Discussion

32.	People with mild mental retardation usually
A.	Do not develop speech
B.	Cannot engage in clinical interview
C.	Cannot achieve full independence
D.	Main difficulties are with regard to academic school work
Answer» E.

Discussion

33.	Life skills are divided into how many general categories?
A.	3
B.	2
C.	4
D.	5
Answer» B. 2

Discussion

34.	Match the items given under Column II providing description with the items under Column I indicating the basis.Column I(Basis)Column II(Description)A) Cognitivei) Ability to relate to otherB) Emotionalii) Ability to articulate the ideaC) Socialiii) Ability to read others ‘facial expression’D) Verbaliv) Ability to solve an abstract problemChoose the correct option from those given below:
A.	A-i, B-iii, C-iv, D-ii
B.	A-iv, B-iii, C-i, D-ii
C.	A-iv, B-iii, C-ii, D-i
D.	A-iv, B-i, C-ii, D-iii
Answer» C. A-iv, B-iii, C-ii, D-i

Discussion

35.	A child who reads "dog" as "god" or "bat" as "tab" suffers from which type of disability?
A.	dyspraxia
B.	dyslexia
C.	dysgraphia
D.	dysphasia
Answer» C. dysgraphia

Discussion

36.	For dealing with the gifted child which is the most realistic and practicable approach
A.	Enrichment alone
B.	Acceleration alone
C.	Segregation
D.	A combination of all these
Answer» E.

Discussion

37.	______ is/are the collective conscience and unwritten constitution of any society.
A.	Values
B.	Both norms and values
C.	Roles
D.	Norms
Answer» C. Roles

Discussion

38.	Educationist and their special educational contribution — choosecorrect : (A) Louis Braille (1) Handicapped learners (B) Helen Kellar (2) Deaf learners (C) Thomas Edison (3) Dumb and Deaf learners (D) Lal Adwani (4) Blind learners
A.	A - (2), B - (4), C - (1), D - (3)
B.	A - (3), B - (2), C - (4), D - (1)
C.	A - (4), B - (3), C - (2), D - (1)
D.	A - (2), B - (1), C - (3), D - (4)
Answer» D. A - (2), B - (1), C - (3), D - (4)

Discussion

39.	A student who seeks meaning and reasoning for what s/he learns can be classified as
A.	Innovative learner
B.	Commonsense learner
C.	Dynamic learner
D.	Analytic learner
Answer» E.

Discussion

40.	How would you as a teacher identify students with mild learning impairment in the class?a) The learner keeps hand near his / her ear when you speak to him / herb) The learner leans towards you in an attempt to hear betterc) The learner squeezes his / her eyes and looks at youd) The learner does not respond to your calling unless someone tells him / herChoose correct answer from the following options below.
A.	(a), (b), (d)
B.	(a), (b), (c)
C.	(b), (c), (d)
D.	(a), (c), (d)
Answer» C. (b), (c), (d)

Discussion

41.	A student is tried to learn new knowledge in such a way that he/she is tried to modified and elaborate concepts and principles already learnt. This type of learning is known as what?
A.	Combinational learning
B.	Subordinate learning
C.	Superordinate learning
D.	Correlative leaning
Answer» B. Subordinate learning

Discussion

42.	Learning objectives mean
A.	Learning experience
B.	Concise outcomes
C.	Academic achievement
D.	Intended learning outcomes
Answer» E.

Discussion

Explore topic-wise MCQs in Education and Teaching.

Creativity means:

Match correctly the items of column-I with the items of column-IIColumn-IColumn-IIA) Dyslexiai) Difficulty in doing mathematicsB) Dysgraphiaii) Difficulty in readingC) Dyscalculiaiii) Difficulty in WritingD) ADHDiv) Difficulty in concentrating

Learning takes place

A gifted child is never defined as one

Psychopathology in mental retardation

Positive facilitation of present learning through past learning, for example addition helps multiplication. This type of transfer of learning is called-

Critical thinking is induced by:‐

Learner communication has relatively high potential of challenging

Identify the sequence which correctly indicates the order for ensuring teaching-learning activities in a a constructivist approach:

People with a learning disability

An example of a Developmental Disorder is

Error of learners often indicate

As per the cognitive development theory of Jean Piaget, adolescent students are in which stage of development?

People with moderate mental retardation usually have

One of the processes not involved in the formation of a concept is:

For encouraging 'learning to learn', the emphasis on which of the following would be most appropriate?

A ‘state of cloudiness in the lens of the eye due to blockage of light’ is a symptom of which one of the following condition?

Children learn through

In which method of arriving at knowledge the emphasis is on both proceeding from particular to general and from general to particular in a combined way?

Leprosy is also called

Current understanding of the concept of mental retardation in psychiatry does not

In People with severe mental retardation

Play has a significant role in development of young children for the following reasons, EXCEPT:‐

Learning by doing is important as it:-

A dynamic approach to learning implies

Inductive learning is contradictory to which one of the following approaches?

In which of the following teaching method of science, rules, generalizations and principles are provided to the students and then they are asked to verify them with the help of particular examples?I. Inductive referenceII. Deductive reference

An intelligent student is found to be generally too slow in mastering vocabulary. Which of the following reason given below can be considered as genuine?

Essential component of learning is:‐

For optimising self-learning which of the following motivational principles will be most helpful?

Choose the most appropriate optionInductive method of teaching grammar involves-

People with mild mental retardation usually

Life skills are divided into how many general categories?

A child who reads "dog" as "god" or "bat" as "tab" suffers from which type of disability?

For dealing with the gifted child which is the most realistic and practicable approach

______ is/are the collective conscience and unwritten constitution of any society.

Educationist and their special educational contribution — choosecorrect : (A) Louis Braille (1) Handicapped learners (B) Helen Kellar (2) Deaf learners (C) Thomas Edison (3) Dumb and Deaf learners (D) Lal Adwani (4) Blind learners

A student who seeks meaning and reasoning for what s/he learns can be classified as

A student is tried to learn new knowledge in such a way that he/she is tried to modified and elaborate concepts and principles already learnt. This type of learning is known as what?

Learning objectives mean