Republic of the Philippines

Maasin City National High School

Combado, Maasin City, So. Leyte

Pre-Mid-Term Examination
DISCIPLINES AND IDEAS IN THE APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCES

Name: _______________________ Section: ________________ Date: ____________ Score: _______

I. Multiple Choice. Write the letter of the correct answer on the space provided before each
number.
________ 1. Studies the optimum allocation of scarce resources and how individuals interact within the
social structure to address questions regarding the production and exchange of goods and
services.
a. Political Science c. Geography
b. Social Work d. Economics
________ 2. Which of the following is not a field of the Social Sciences?
a. Counseling c. Demography
b. Political Science d. Sociology
________ 3. Studies changes in population growth through the analysis of statistics on birth, human
movement, and morbidity, agedness, and mortality.
a. Geography c. Economics
b. Demography d. Statistics
________ 4. Field of study that is focused on the use and application of the different concepts,
theoretical models, and theories of the social science disciplines to help understand society
and the different problems and issues it faces.
a. Social Sciences c. Applied Social Sciences
b. Natural Sciences d. Behavioral Sciences
________ 5. Which of the following is a main discipline/professional track of the applied social science?
a. Political Science c. Demography Studies
b. Guidance Counseling d. Sociological Research
________ 6. A discipline that provides guidance, help, and support to individuals through the
application of psychological methods that includes cases history data, personal interviews,
and aptitude tests.
a. Social Work c. Demography
b. Counseling d. Statistics
________ 7. Which career opportunity will mostly need an applied social science practitioner?
a. Journalism c. Computer Science
b. Engineering d. Architecture
________ 8. Field of study where practitioners help individuals, families, groups, and communities
enhance peoples’ skills and ability to use their own resources and that of the community
to resolve social and community problems.
a. Life Coach c. Communication Studies
b. Social Work d. Journalism
________ 9. Studies the interaction between people and their environments and explores both the
physical properties of Earth’s surface and their relationship with human societies.
a. Demography c. Sociology
b. History d. Geography
________ 10. Studies past events in order to understand the meaning, dynamics, and relationship of
the cause and effect of events in the development of human societies.
a. Sociology c. History
b. Anthropology d. Philosophy
 II. Complete the statements below by supplying the principle being referred to. Choices are
given in the word bank.

Principles of Counseling
Advice-giving Clarification Clarified thinking Emotional release
Empathy Positive regard Listening skills Reassurance
Reorientation Respect Transference

1. __________________ is a valuable principle that can bring about a sense of relief that may
empower a client to function normally again.
2. _________________ encourages a client to accept responsibility for problems and to be more
realistic in solving them.
3. _________________ has to avoid breeding a relationship in which the counselee feels inferior and
emotionally dependent on the counselor.
4. _________________ involves a change in the client’s emotional self through a change in basic
goals and aspirations.
5. Counseling provides clients the opportunity to get _______________________ from their pent-up
frustrations and other personal issues.
6. ____________________ requires the counselor to listen and understand the feelings and
perspective of the client, while _____________________ is an aspect of respect.
7. In all circumstances, clients must be treated with _________________, no matter how peculiar or
utterly different they are from the counselor.
8. ___________________ is an attempt by the counselor to restate what the client is either saying or
feeling, so the client may learn something or understand the issue better.
9. Good ______________________ help counselors to understand the client’s concerns without
making interpretations or offering any premature suggestions on how to deal with and solve
them.
10. When clients are helped to understand _______________________ reactions, then they are
empowered to gain understanding of important aspects of their emotional life.

III. Based on what you learned as the goals and scope of counseling, analyze each situation
below and put a check mark ( ) if it is reasonably within a counselor’s jurisdiction, and put a
cross mark ( ) if it is not.
______ 1. Katy feels insecure and an outcast in school because she thinks her classmates talk negatively
about her.
______ 2. Mike needs to raise funds for his college tuition next year.
______ 3. Abigail keeps questioning herself if she is in the right job because she seems to be getting more
unmotivated as time goes.
______ 4. Bobie thinks he is addicted to video games and wants to control it to become more productive
with his school work.
______ 5. Hazel was diagnosed with cancer when she was a teenager. As a young adult now, she wants to
be helped again thinking that she has the illness again.
______ 6. Mark is overly jealous when it comes to the friends of his girlfriend. He cannot seem to accept
the fact that his girlfriend enjoys very much the company of others.
______ 7. Rita is overly scared of men because of a traumatic experience she had as a little girl. She
witnessed how three men robbed and stabbed her father to death.
_______ 8. John is thinking to renovate their ancestral house. He plans to add three rooms in the
basement.
_______ 9. Aljon feels sad because he still doesn’t know what career he must pursue in college.
_______ 10. Kiljohn got sick. He plans to see a doctor so that he may know the cause of it.