UPTET · Child Development and Pedagogy
Approaches and theories explaining how children learn.
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Q1 · Learning Theories and Pedagogy · EASY
According to Thorndike's Law of Effect, when a learner's response to a stimulus is followed by a satisfying consequence, what happens to the connection between the stimulus and response?
Q2 · Learning Theories and Pedagogy · MEDIUM
In Pavlov's classical conditioning experiment, a bell (neutral stimulus) was repeatedly paired with food (unconditioned stimulus) until the dog began salivating to the bell alone. What is the bell called after this conditioning process?
Q3 · Learning Theories and Pedagogy · MEDIUM
A teacher wants to increase the frequency of students completing their homework on time. She decides to give a star sticker to every student who submits homework on time. According to Skinner's operant conditioning, what technique is the teacher using?
Q4 · Learning Theories and Pedagogy · MEDIUM
According to Vygotsky's theory, a child can solve simple puzzles independently but needs guidance from an adult to solve complex puzzles. The range between what the child can do alone and what the child can do with help is called:
Q5 · Learning Theories and Pedagogy · HARD
A student observes that dividing fractions gives a larger result than the original fraction, which contradicts their intuition that 'division makes things smaller'. According to Gestalt theory, what must happen for the student to truly understand fraction division?