CTET Solved Paper - UPTET October 2017 Paper2
Directions(Q.Nos. 1-30) Answer the following questions by selecting the correct / most appropriate options.
11. The median of 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 is
- Option : D
- Explanation : (D) The median of the given numbers is 9.5. Median is the number that falls in the middle of the distribution. Basically what has to be done is to add two middle numbers together (9+10), then that number will always have to be divided by 2. 9+10=19 Divide by 2 192= 9.5
12. Who has propounded the theory of insight?
- Option : B
- Explanation : (B) This theory is also called Gestalt Theory of Learning. An explanation of Gestalt School of Psychology. The word 'Gestalt' in German language means 'whole', 'total pattern' or 'configuration'. This school believes that the whole is more important than the parts. So learning also takes place as a whole'. In this respect Kohlar performed a number of experiments on monkeys, and arrived at the result that highest types of learning is through insight. Learning by insight means sudden grasping of the solution, a flash of understanding, without any process of trial and error. All discoveries and inventions have taken place through insight. Of course the discoverer possessed a complete knowledge of the whole situation in peace-meal.
13. According to McDougall, every instinct is associated with
- Option : B
- Explanation : (B) According to Dougall every instinct is associated with emotion. In other words, it is emotions which guide us to instinct. Each of the principal instincts conditions, then, some one kind of emotional excitement whose quality is specific or peculiar to it; and the emotional excitement of specific quality that is the affective aspect of the operation of anyone of the principal instincts may be called a primary emotion.
14. Giving the meaning to sensation on the basis of past experience is called
- Option : B
- Explanation : (B) Perception is defined as the active process of selecting, organising, and interpreting the information brought to the brain by the senses. Perception varies from one individual to the next and is largely based on past experiences. Sensation and perception are vital parts of how we make contact with the outside world. Sensations can be defined as the passive process of bringing information from the outside world into the body and to the brain. The process is passive in the sense that we do not have to be consciously engaging in a 'sensing' process.
15. Five-year-old Mohan has mental age of eight. What is his IQ?
- Option : B
- Explanation : (B) To calculate IQ we divide the mental age of an individual with his actual biological age and then multiply it by 100. Here in the given question the Biological age is given as 5 and the mental age is given as 8 so the IQ as per the given formulae would be 160.
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