CTET Psychology Notes
Find the complete set of CTET Psychology Notes PDF here! For the budding teaching aspirants, it is important to know that child psychology plays a very important role in teaching new concepts and theories to students. Psychology is one that focuses on the mental makeup of a person and their behavior. As students are very restless and timid it is important that teachers understand ways to develop them through the age. Mental, emotional and physical development of a child is referred to as child psychology and its knowledge is very important for CTET. The child psychology and pedagogy section has approximately 60% weightage in the Paper 1 exam and 53% weightage in the Paper 2 exam. To score well in CTET, the students cannot ignore the psychology section and have to prepare for it really well as it is not an easy section.
The notes of psychology are very difficult to find and there CLEAREXAM has provided the notes to ease the way for students. As the exam is approaching the students have to put in their hard work because then only they will be able to break through the competition and ace their spot. Psychology and Pedagogy are very interesting topics to study and to score well in this section the students have to really understand the concepts otherwise they won’t be able to grasp it. The peculiar concepts require much concentration and the right study materials to understand them fully. CTET aspirants can find below sample questions on this topic and Child Psychology and Pedagogy PDF notes.
Important CTET Psychology Notes:
- The term, Phycology was first used by Rudolf Golkay in 1950
- Rudolf Golkay wrote the first book ‘Phycology Physiologic’ on Psychology.
- WilliumVant established the world's first physiological lab in Germany lab (1879)
- The father of modern psychology- William James
- First psychologist of modern psychology - Decarte
- Kindergarten method was proposed by- Frobel
- Dalton method was proposed by- Helen Parkhurst
- Proponents of the Montessori method- Madam Mariea Montessori
- The father of cognitive movement- Albert Bandura
- Various theories of psychology/ community and their parents-
- Gestaltwad(1912)- Kohlar, Kofka, Vrdimr and Levin
- Structuralism (1879)-WilliumVunt
- Behaviourism (1912)-J. B. Watson
- Development/cognitive- Jean Piazze
- The structural concept of learning- Jerome Bruner
- Social learning theory(1986)-Albert Bandura
- Connectionism theory-(1913)- Thorndike
- Optimised response theory(1904)- Pavlov
- Kriyaprsut contract theory(1938)- Skinner
- Reinforcement/reinforcement theory (1915)-Hull
- Insight/understanding theory(1912)- Kohler
- Personality projective methods of measurement:
- Thematic Apperception Test (T.A.T)
- ChildApperception test (C.A.T)
- Inkblot test(IBT)
- Sentence completion test (SCT)
- Personality assessment method of measurement:
- Schedule
- Questionnaire
- Interview
- Autobiography method
- Individual history method
- Inspection
- Sociometry
- Physical test
- Dream analysis
- Criteria evaluation method
- The principle of intelligence and their exponent:
- Absolute monarchical principle (1911) - Averting, Traman and Stern
- Two bays Theory (1904) - Spearman
- Theory of three bays – Spearman
- The principle of multi-section – Edward Thorndike
- Group factor theory - Thurston and Cali
- Determination of intelligence quotient (IQ):
- Intelligence quotient (IQ) = mental age (MA)X100/ actual age (CA)
- Intelligence quotient (IQ) determination was proposed by - William Stern (1912)
- The level of intelligence may be indicated as follows:
S. No | Category | IQ |
1. | Idiot | 0-25 |
2. | Imbecile | 25-50 |
3. | Moron | 50-70 |
4. | Below Normal | 70-90 |
5. | Normal | 90-110 |
6. | Superior | 110-120 |
7 | Very superior | 120-140 |
8. | Genius | 140 and above |