The Special Needs Education course accomplishes the trainee how to guide children with disabilities or impairments, about their behavior that is appropriate and inacceptable by society. In an inclusion classroom, students with disabilities and other special needs are taught with non-disabled students, instead of being isolated in a special education classroom. To help meet students’ varied needs, a special education
47. MODULE – 2.
Q1. One of the oldest and most central theoretical debates within psychology and philosophy
concerns whether children’s learning and development is as a result of their genetic
inheritance(nature) or the influence of the ______________ in which they find themselves
(nurture).
a.) School
b.) Environment
c.) Parents
d.) Day care centers
Q2. The child knows that an object still exist even when out of sight. This is known as Object
Permanence. It happens in which stage of child development?
a.) Pre – operational stage
b.) Concrete operational stage
c.) Sensory motor stage.
d.) None of the above.
Q3. Which Articles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) state
clearly that respect and recognition for the child’s own cultural identity, values and language
(and that of others), should be part of his/her education.
a.) Article 29 and 30.
b.) Article 39 and 40.
c.) Article 49 and 50.
d.) Article 59 and 60.
48. Q4. Whose key contribution to child development is his teaching that learning is a continual
process of meaning making?
a.) Pavlov
b.) Skinner
c.) Bandura
d.) Piaget
Q5. Hohmann and Weikart (1995) building on the work of Erikson, identified five building
blocks of human relationships. Among those five building blocks, this is one:-
a.) Communication
b.) Autonomy
c.) Exploration
d.) Identification
Q6. Children, through their acquisition and use of language, come to reproduce a culture that
contains the knowledge of generations. Whose key principle was this?
a.) Vygotsky
b.) Wood
c.) Bruner
d.) Piaget
Q7. However, in keeping with Vygotsky,” he “also stressed the way culture forms, transforms
the child’s development. Who is referred to as “he” here?
a.) Piaget
b.) Egan
c.) Bruner
d.) None of them
49. Q8. Both Dewey (1966) and Vygotsky (1978) proposed that learning is a reciprocal
and ______________ process between adult and child.
a.) Collaborative
b.) Fundamental
c.) Cultural
d.) Supportive
Q9. What do adults do to facilitate children with so that they learn to collaborate,
discuss details of problems (number; space; time) and discover there are many
possible solutions to problems?
a.) Reasoning Skills
b.) Language Skills
c.) Social Skills
d.) Problem- solving Skills
Q10. Thomas and Chess identified that from birth, babies have been found to be
different from each other in nine ways. One of them is:-
a.) Activity Level.
b.) Adaptability
c.) Attention Span
d.) All of the above.