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Q1A Class IV learner who has been struggling with a jigsaw puzzle suddenly arranges the pieces correctly after staring quietly for a minute. According to Köhler's Gestalt experiments, what name is given to this kind of learning?
Köhler's chimpanzee studies showed that learners often pause, restructure the field mentally, and then perceive a sudden whole-pattern solution. This pattern-grasp without slow trial-and-error is called insight learning, central to the Gestalt school's whole-greater-than-parts view.
Q2How many key Piagetian ideas are named here — schemas, assimilation, accommodation and equilibration?
The four named Piagetian ideas are schemas, assimilation, accommodation and equilibration. Schemas are mental frameworks for organizing experience. Assimilation fits new information into existing schemas. Accommodation modifies a schema or creates a new one when old understanding does not fit. Equilibration is the balancing process through which children move from disequilibrium toward a more stable understanding. Together these ideas explain ongoing cognitive growth.
Q3A Class III teacher rings a small bell every day just before handing out drawing sheets. After two weeks, learners begin to take out their pencils as soon as they hear the bell. Which classical learning concept does this describe?
Pavlov's classical conditioning explains how a neutral stimulus, when paired repeatedly with a meaningful event, comes to elicit a response on its own. Here the bell starts neutral; pairing with the drawing sheets makes it a conditioned signal, and pencils-out becomes the conditioned response.
Q4At what approximate age range does Piaget's concrete operational stage typically begin and end?
Piaget placed the concrete operational stage at approximately 7 to 11 years. In this stage children gain conservation, reversibility, and class inclusion when reasoning about real objects. This range matches the upper-primary REET Level 1 audience and shapes how teachers select tangible classroom activities.
Q5Which of the following statements about Bandura's Social Learning Theory is incorrect?
Bandura's framework lists attention, retention, motor reproduction, and motivation as core processes. Self-efficacy and vicarious reinforcement are central. Direct external punishment is not required for observational learning to take place; many imitative acquisitions happen without any direct reward or punishment to the observer.
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6Consider the following statements about a Class II classroom and choose the correct combination. (i) Pavlov's classical conditioning explains why the school assembly bell can trigger queueing behaviour. (ii) Skinner's operant conditioning explains why a teacher's praise sticker increases neat handwriting. (iii) Wertheimer's Gestalt principle that the whole is more than the sum of parts supports teaching a story as one meaningful narrative.
7Consider the following two statements about Skinner's operant conditioning. Statement I: A behaviour followed by a pleasant consequence becomes more likely to recur. Statement II: A behaviour followed by an unpleasant consequence becomes more likely to recur. Which is correct?
8Arrange Piaget's four cognitive stages in the correct order from infancy to adolescence.
9Match Thorndike's three primary laws with their classroom expressions and choose the correct pair set.
10Assertion (A): Bandura's Bobo doll study showed that children imitated the adult model's aggressive behaviour even when the model was not present later. Reason (R): According to Social Learning Theory, learners can acquire new responses simply by observing a model, without needing direct reinforcement.