Child Psychology & Pedagogy PDF — 500 Questions Free (CTET, UPTET, UP PRT 2026)

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📌 PDF name	Child Psychology & Pedagogy — 500 Questions (Yaad Rakho Series, English)
🎯 Useful for	UP Assistant Teacher (PRT) 2026, UPTET, Super TET, CTET Paper 1 & 2, KVS / NVS PRT, other state teacher recruitment exams
📚 Chapters	7 chapters — child development; development theories (Piaget, Vygotsky, Kohlberg, Erikson, Freud); learning; intelligence, personality, motivation & memory; inclusive education; pedagogy & methods; assessment, action research & policies — plus ID cards, animal chart, who-said-it, trap pairs, 100 scenarios, RTE-NEP-NCF table, glossary
🔢 Questions & pages	500 one-liner questions & answers · 82 pages
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7 chapters in the PDF

01Child Development: Concepts, Stages, Heredity & EnvironmentQ 1–45

02Development Theories: Piaget, Vygotsky, Kohlberg, Erikson, Freud, Bruner, Language DevelopmentQ 46–100

03Learning: Theories, Curve, Transfer & FactorsQ 101–155

04Intelligence, Personality, Motivation, Memory, Attention & EmotionQ 156–200

05Individual Differences, Inclusive Education & CWSNQ 201–230

06Pedagogy: Maxims, Methods, Micro-teaching, Lesson Planning & BloomQ 231–270

07Assessment, Action Research & Education PoliciesQ 271–300

Child psychology — superfast quick revision table

📌 Topic	✅ Fact
Jean Piaget	Cognitive development — 4 stages: sensorimotor (0–2), pre-operational (2–7), concrete operational (7–11), formal operational (11+)
Lev Vygotsky	Sociocultural theory — Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD), scaffolding, private speech
Lawrence Kohlberg	Moral development — 3 levels, 6 stages: pre-conventional, conventional, post-conventional
Erik Erikson	Psychosocial development — 8 stages; the first is trust vs mistrust
Sigmund Freud	Psychoanalysis — id, ego, superego; 5 psychosexual stages
Ivan Pavlov	Classical conditioning — dog, bell and salivation experiment
Edward L. Thorndike	Trial and error — cat, puzzle box; laws of readiness, exercise and effect
B. F. Skinner	Operant conditioning — rats and pigeons, Skinner box, reinforcement
Wolfgang Köhler	Insight learning — chimpanzee Sultan; Gestalt
Albert Bandura	Social / observational learning — Bobo doll experiment (1961)
Howard Gardner	Theory of multiple intelligences (1983)
Abraham Maslow	Hierarchy of needs (1943) — self-actualisation at the top
RTE Act 2009	Free and compulsory education for ages 6–14; in force from 1 April 2010; Section 12(1)(c) — 25% seats; Section 17 — bans physical punishment and mental harassment
NEP 2020	5+3+3+4 structure; foundational stage 3–8 years; mother tongue / local language as medium at least till Class 5
NIPUN Bharat · Mission Prerna	NIPUN Bharat 5 July 2021 (FLN by Class 3); Mission Prerna (Uttar Pradesh) September 2019

Top 42 one-liners (from the PDF)

Child Development: Concepts, Stages, Heredity & Environment
Of growth and development, which concept is broader?
→ Development
Child Development: Concepts, Stages, Heredity & Environment
Development does not occur in a straight line; what shape is its course considered to have?
→ Spiral / circular
Child Development: Concepts, Stages, Heredity & Environment
What is the first stage of prenatal development (about the first two weeks) called?
→ Germinal stage
Child Development: Concepts, Stages, Heredity & Environment
Who called adolescence the period of "Storm and stress"?
→ G. Stanley Hall
Child Development: Concepts, Stages, Heredity & Environment
Who coined the term "Eugenics"?
→ Francis Galton (1883)
Child Development: Concepts, Stages, Heredity & Environment
What are the units that carry hereditary traits from generation to generation called?
→ Genes
Development Theories: Piaget, Vygotsky, Kohlberg, Erikson, Freud, Bruner, Language Development
What is the age range of Piaget's Pre-operational stage?
→ 2 to 7 years
Development Theories: Piaget, Vygotsky, Kohlberg, Erikson, Freud, Bruner, Language Development
What is changing an old schema or creating a new one according to new information called?
→ Accommodation
Development Theories: Piaget, Vygotsky, Kohlberg, Erikson, Freud, Bruner, Language Development
According to Vygotsky, what is the correct sequence of speech development?
→ Social → Private → Inner speech
Development Theories: Piaget, Vygotsky, Kohlberg, Erikson, Freud, Bruner, Language Development
Social contract and universal ethical principles come under which level of Kohlberg?
→ Post-conventional
Development Theories: Piaget, Vygotsky, Kohlberg, Erikson, Freud, Bruner, Language Development
What is the Erikson crisis of children in primary classes (about 6–12 years)?
→ Industry vs Inferiority
Development Theories: Piaget, Vygotsky, Kohlberg, Erikson, Freud, Bruner, Language Development
According to Bruner, what are the three modes of representing knowledge in the correct order?
→ Enactive → Iconic → Symbolic
Learning: Theories, Curve, Transfer & Factors
Salivation stopping when only the bell is rung repeatedly without giving food is called what?
→ Extinction
Learning: Theories, Curve, Transfer & Factors
The Law of use and disuse is part of which primary law of Thorndike?
→ Law of Exercise
Learning: Theories, Curve, Transfer & Factors
Giving reinforcement after a fixed time has passed, like a monthly salary, is which schedule?
→ Fixed interval
Learning: Theories, Curve, Transfer & Factors
Who propounded the theory of social learning / Observational learning?
→ Albert Bandura
Learning: Theories, Curve, Transfer & Factors
The early study of the learning plateau was done on learning which skill?
→ Telegraphy (telegraph messages)
Learning: Theories, Curve, Transfer & Factors
According to Bandura, what is the belief in one's own ability to perform a task successfully called?
→ Self-efficacy
Intelligence, Personality, Motivation, Memory, Attention & Emotion
If the mental age of a 10-year-old child is 12 years, what will be his Intelligence Quotient?
→ 120
Intelligence, Personality, Motivation, Memory, Attention & Emotion
Which eighth intelligence did Gardner add later?
→ Naturalistic intelligence
Intelligence, Personality, Motivation, Memory, Attention & Emotion
Who developed the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)?
→ Murray and Morgan (1935)
Intelligence, Personality, Motivation, Memory, Attention & Emotion
How many levels are there in Maslow's original (1943) hierarchy?
→ Five
Intelligence, Personality, Motivation, Memory, Attention & Emotion
Who stated the capacity of Short-term memory as 7 ± 2 units?
→ George Miller (1956)
Intelligence, Personality, Motivation, Memory, Attention & Emotion
Who classified intelligence into abstract, mechanical (concrete) and social intelligence?
→ Thorndike
Individual Differences, Inclusive Education & CWSN
Teaching by changing content, pace and activity according to the individual differences in a class is called what?
→ Differentiated instruction
Individual Differences, Inclusive Education & CWSN
Which type of thinking is mainly found in a Creative child?
→ Divergent thinking
Individual Differences, Inclusive Education & CWSN
Difficulty in understanding numbers, calculation and mathematical operations is associated with which learning disability?
→ Dyscalculia
Individual Differences, Inclusive Education & CWSN
How many types of disabilities are recognised in the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (RPwD) Act 2016?
→ 21
Individual Differences, Inclusive Education & CWSN
All children study in the same class and the school adapts itself to them — which education is this?
→ Inclusive education
Individual Differences, Inclusive Education & CWSN
Which script for visually impaired children is based on six raised dots?
→ Braille
Pedagogy: Maxims, Methods, Micro-teaching, Lesson Planning & Bloom
Reciting the whole poem first and then explaining it line by line is based on which maxim of teaching?
→ Whole to part
Pedagogy: Maxims, Methods, Micro-teaching, Lesson Planning & Bloom
Which method is more suitable for teaching a new mathematical rule for the first time in a primary class?
→ Inductive method
Pedagogy: Maxims, Methods, Micro-teaching, Lesson Planning & Bloom
Which school for children did Montessori open in Rome in 1907?
→ Casa dei Bambini (Children's House)
Pedagogy: Maxims, Methods, Micro-teaching, Lesson Planning & Bloom
Who is the originator of the Heuristic method, based on learning by finding out oneself?
→ H. E. Armstrong
Pedagogy: Maxims, Methods, Micro-teaching, Lesson Planning & Bloom
How many students and what duration are usually kept in micro-teaching?
→ 5–10 students, 5–10 minutes
Pedagogy: Maxims, Methods, Micro-teaching, Lesson Planning & Bloom
In which year was Bloom's Taxonomy of educational objectives first published?
→ 1956
Assessment, Action Research & Education Policies
Which assessment finds out progress from time to time during teaching and gives feedback?
→ Formative assessment
Assessment, Action Research & Education Policies
What is the teaching done to remove the difficulty identified after diagnosis called?
→ Remedial teaching
Assessment, Action Research & Education Policies
Which evaluation compares a student's performance with other students of the group?
→ Norm-referenced
Assessment, Action Research & Education Policies
Which technique finds out the mutual social relationships of children in a class?
→ Sociometry
Assessment, Action Research & Education Policies
According to Section 29 of RTE 2009, what should the medium of instruction be, as far as possible?
→ The child's mother tongue
Assessment, Action Research & Education Policies
When was the NIPUN Bharat Mission launched?
→ 5 July 2021

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500 questions in all: 300 one-liners in 7 chapters (child development 45, development theories 55, learning 55, intelligence-personality-motivation 45, inclusive education 30, pedagogy 40, assessment & policies 30), 50 who-said-it, 50 trap pairs and 100 scenario-based questions. Plus 15 psychologist ID cards, an animal chart, a 'one age, four theories' table, 10 golden rules, an RTE-NEP-NCF table, an 80-word Hindi–English glossary and a 60-second revision page.

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Yes. PRT 2026 has 8 questions each on child psychology, pedagogy and life skills/management out of 120. This PDF fully covers the first two, and the scenario questions also help with the third.

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Questions on a classroom situation such as 'what should the teacher do?'. Each one gives the right answer, why it is right and why the other options are not.

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Yes — the core child development and pedagogy syllabus (theories, learning, inclusive education, assessment, RTE-NEP) is the same across teacher exams.