PART 2: PRACTICE TEST FOR PROFESSIONAL

EDUCATION CHILD & ADOLESCENT

DEVELOPMENT
26. The founder of the theory of psychology called
psychoanalysis was
a. Lock
b. Hume
c. Freud
d. Leibnitz
27. When the learner reaches a point where no further
improvement can be expected, he is in a socalled
a. development crisis
b. learning plateau
c. regression
d. depression
28. Regarding the sexual maturation o boys and girls,
teachers should bear in mind that:
a. girls mature at a late stage than boys
b. girls mature at an earlier stage than boys

33. Transfer of training easily takes place if the activities

involved
a. Are different
b. Have identical element
c. Occur in the same place
d. Vary in difficulty
34. When the learner is wellmotivated, he performs his
task
a. with indifference
b. with disinterest
c. with arrogance
d. with enthusiasm
35. A sixyearold child who has a mental age of eight
years has an IQ of
a. 120
b. 130
c. 132
d. 133

c. boys and girls mature at the same time

36. The ratio obtained by dividing mental age by

chronological age times 100 is called

d. there are no marked differences in heir time of

maturity

a. derived quotient

29. Rationalization is used by student who

a. always give explanation or reason for their failures
rather than own their faults
b. like to take the blame for their faults
c. bribe their elders with promises
d. substitute words for deeds
30. Which of the following is true of Abnormal
Psychology?
a. it studies the cause of personality defects

b. deviation
c. intelligence quotient or IQ
d. intelligence ratio
37. Which of the following was written by Plato?
a. Sic et Non
b. The School and Society
c. The Republic
d. Emile

b. it measures the accomplishments of the individual

38. Who among those below asserted that Education is

for complete living

c. it concentrates on the scholastic performance of the

individual

a. Dewey

d. it investigates the educational background of the

individual
31. Which of the following is a continuous variable?
a. weight
b. sex
c. nationality
d. race
32. Which of the following is true about ones IQ?
a. it remains fairly constant
b. it is highly changeable
c. it is affected by attitude
d. it is never constant

b. Spencer
c. Kant
d. Froebel
39. The right of an educational institution and its faculty
to prescribe the methods/ strategies of teaching refers to:
a. building style
b. choice of curriculum
c. academic freedom
d. co and extra curricular program
40. The 1987 Constitution provides that religious
institution can be given
a. with the students consent
b. with the parent/guardian approval

c. with mayors permit

46. The heredity traits acquired by a person in his

lifetime

d. with the schools support

a. are transmissible to his offspring
41. Public schools in the Philippines are the contribution
of which colonizer?

b. reappear in his future grandparent

a. American

c. Have no influence on the offspring

b. British

d. Become recessive traits

c. Japanese

47. When student are given a chance to settle differences

of opinion by discussion, they develop:

d. Spanish
a. fair play
42. Hardship allowance is given to a teacher when
b. tolerance
a. hes assigned in a depressed area
c. irritants
b. hes given additional teaching load
d. sociability
c. hes in lahar area
d. hes assigned in a hazardous area
43. The ability for quantitative learning of the relations of
facts taken from newspaper readings, letter writing and
the like is called:
a. functional literacy

48. The schools responsibility towards teenagers gang

age is:
a. provide the gang all the freedom it needs
b. gives classroom activities to give direction to outofschool youth activities

b. adjustment learning
c. supervise gang activities
c. Knowledge outcome
d. set up norms of conduct or the member of the gang
d. Social competence
44. A teacher who gives a uniform assignment to be
worked out by all learners in Arithmetic is not observing a
characteristic of a good assignment. Which characteristic
is overlooked?

49. In an intelligence test, a 13year old girl got a score

equivalent to that of a 15year old. This means:
a. that the girl must be accelerated
b. that the girl is 2years older mentally

a. It should be definite
c. that the girl has a chronological age of 15
b. It should be stimulating
d. that she has a mental age of 13
c. It should emphasize the essential
d. It should provide for individual differences
45. If a student ask a question which the teacher does not
have a ready answer, the latter should:

50. Which statement is not necessary to achieve the

learners interest in a learning activity?
a. the activity must lead to a practical end
b. the activity must be within the ability of the learner

a. dismiss the question as irrelevant

c. the activity must fill a need recognized by the learner
b. offer a bluff
c. admit the fact that he doesnt know the answer
d. ask volunteers to answer the question and do research
on it later.

d. the learner must have the experience that will furnish

the background for the activity