Correct Answer - Option 4 : Hypothetical Questions
Teachers and researchers have developed a number of types of questions, which can be used to foster the creativity.
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Redefining Questions: In this type of question, children are asked to redefine an object, animal, person or event. These questions develop a new perspective and children learn to be aware of unusual characteristics and look beyond the obvious. Ex: Why is a fountain pen like a tap.
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Consequences questions: These questions pose situations or events that might not have happened or will never happen. Such questions make the children to imagine and write the consequences, if such an event takes place. Ex: Suppose the petrol supply on earth vanishes all of a sudden.
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Hypothetical questions: In this type of questions students have to go beyond the available data (their learning) and synthesise them with their personality characteristics. Ex: If you were the manager of a bank?
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Provocative questions: The children may be taught a passage or they may be asked to go through a passage and proactive question may be put. They help the children to imagine and go beyond the information provided in the passage. Ex: What would have Gandhiji done had he lived today?
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Questions seeking new relationships: Sometimes theses questions look to be funny or crazy and may lead on to frustration on the part of the students, but they will enjoy later. Ex: Is month a mile?
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Divergent questions: These questions require the students to break from the fixed pattern of one question one answer and develop many relevant responses. The cost or time need not be an inhibiting factor in such relevant responses. Ex: A town hidden beneath the mud has been found. What might have been the reasons as to why the town might have gone underground?
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Challenging assumptions questions: These questions help children develop a functional understanding of the world. The assumptions are being questioned which have been accepted for a long time. These exercise the mind and children develop a new perspective. Ex: Why questions like why should be respecting our parents?
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Future problem-solving questions: These questions require the students to design and redesign which involve a good deal of innovation. They make the students look differently at things and make them think in different ways. Ex: A machine to dig the tunnel without disturbing the traffic on the road.
Hence, we conclude that the above statement is of 'Hypothetical Questions'.
