The Socratic method is known as:

Concept: Teaching methods in pedagogy are classified by HOW the teacher guides learning. The Question-Answer Method, also called the Socratic Method after the Greek philosopher Socrates, works by the teacher posing a carefully structured sequence of probing questions that lead the student to discover a conclusion for themselves, rather than the teacher supplying the information directly.

Application: Of the four named teaching methods offered here, only one is built entirely around this structured teacher-led questioning sequence used to draw out knowledge the student already implicitly holds — which is exactly the technique Socrates used with his students. That is why the method is formally named the Question-Answer Method.

Cross-check — how the other named methods differ:

• Lecture-Demonstration Method: the teacher verbally explains a concept AND performs a live or practical demonstration of it; the teacher is the primary source delivering ready-made information, not eliciting it through a chain of questions.

• Discussion Method: the teacher and students openly exchange views and opinions on a topic to build analysis, expression, and reasoning skills; it is a free-flowing exchange of ideas, not a single structured sequence of leading questions steered toward one discovery.

• Inquiry Method: students independently investigate, explore, or research a problem to construct understanding through their own activity; the teacher facilitates but does not drive the process with a continuous chain of guiding questions.

Since the defining feature here — a structured sequence of teacher-posed questions guiding the student to a conclusion — matches only the Question-Answer Method, that is the method also known as the Socratic Method.