LET REVIEWER: Child and Adolescence 7. Which of the following theory can help Miss Samson determine a.

Trust
the readiness of her learners by administering a readiness test? b. Autonomy
1.Dr. Escoto, the school physician conducted a physical
a. Conditioning Theories c. Initiative
examination in Ms. Manuel's class. What concept best describes
b. Cognitive Development Theory d. Industry
the quantitative increase observed by Dr. Escoto among learners
c. Maturation Theory
in terms of height and weight? Answer: A
d. Ethological Theory
a. Development
14. Christian develops an integral and coherent sense of self. He
b. Growth Answer: C
seeks answers to the question. "Who am I"? Which of the
c. Learning
Mr. Francisco was very much worried about the thumb sucking of following is Christian likely to develop?
d. Maturation
his son. A friend of him says that certain behavior among infants. a. Initiative
Answer: B Who presented that notion that certain behavior like thumb- b. Identity and Role Confusion
sucking is normal behavior? c. Intimacy
2. Which situation best illustrates the concept of growth?
A. Sigmund Freud d. Autonomy
a. A kinder pupil gains 2 pounds within two months.
b. Erick Ericson
b. A high school student gets a score of 85 in mental ability test. Answer: B
c. John Bowlly
c. An education student has gained knowledge on approaches and
d. Urie Bronfrenbenner 15. Ms. Reyes uses images and language to represent and
strategies in teaching different subjects
understand her various lessons to preschool learners. What stage
d. An elementary grader has learned to play piano. Answer: A
in the cognitive theory of development explains this?
Answer: A 9. A newborn infant move his whole body at one time, instead of a. Sensorimotor
moving a part of it. Which of the following principles is illustrated b. Preoperational
3.Which statements below best describes development?
by his behavior? c. Concrete operation
a. A high school student's height increased by 5'2" to 5'4"
a. Development proceeds from specific to general. d. Formal operation
b. A high school student's change in weight from 110 lbs. to 125
b. Development proceeds from general to specific.
lbs. Answer: B
c. Development follows an orderly pattern.
c. A student had learned to operate the computer
d. Development follows a general pattern. 16. Connie develops concepts necessary for everyday living, builds
d. A student's enlargement of hips
healthy attitudes towards oneself, and achieve personal
Answer: B
Answer: C independence. These are among the attributes of an individual in
10. Train up a child in the way he should be; when he grows up, what particular stage?
4.What concept can best describes Francisco's ability to walk
he will not depart from it. Which principle supports this? a. Infancy and early childhood
without a support at age of 12 months because of the "internal
a. Development is determined by his heredity b. Middle childhood
ripening" that occured in his muscles, bones and nervous system
b. Development is determined by the environment c. Adolescence
development?
c. Early development is more critical than the late development d. Early adulthood
a. Development
d. Early development is less critical than late development.
b. Growth Answer: B
c. Learning Answer: B
17. Some children are more active than others, as everyone
d. Maturation
11. Which state of the psycho-sexual theory does young boys knows-extremely highlevels of activity or hyperactivity are
Answer: D experience rivalry with their father for their mother's attention considered problematic. How may a teacher help a child who is
and affection? hyperactive?
5.Teacher Jesus in now 69 years old has been observing changes
a. Oral a. Make him the leader of the class
in himself such as the aging process. Which term refers to the
b. Anal b. Transfer him to another class
development change in the individual?
c. Phallic c. Give him challenging activities that are appropriate to his ability
a. Development
d. Latency level and interests.
b. Growth
d. Allow him to spend longer at the playground until he gets tired.
c. Learning Answer: C
d. Maturation Answer: C
12. Angela focuses her attention on the school work and vigorous
Answer: D play that consume most of her physical energy. Which stage of 18. Tessa gets jealous whenever she sees her father showing love
psychosexual theory illustrates her behavior? and affection to her mother. Which of the following is she
6. Manuel, a five-year old boy can hold his pen and write his name
a. Oral showing according to Freud?
with his right hand. Which term describes Manuel's action/
b. Anal a. Complex
behavior?
c. Phallic b. Phallic
a. Development
d. Latency c. Electra Complex
b. Growth
d. Oedipus Complex
c. Learning Answer: D
d. Maturation Answer: C
13. Which of the following is likely to be developed if infants are
Answer: A shown genuine affection?
19. In Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development, which of the 25. Which of the following learner's characteristics will affect a. Initiative vs. Guilt
following statements would illustrate Edward who is 11 years old? most of the learners learning in the academic class? b. Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt
a. Able to see relationships and to reason in the abstract. a. His affective characteristics c. Intimacy vs. Isolation
b. Unable to breakdown a whole into separate parts. b. His cognitive characteristics d. Trust vs. Mistrust
c. Differentiates goals and goal-directed activities. c. His psychomotor characteristics
Answer: C
d. Experiments with methods to reach goals. d. His socio-emotional characteristics
32. Alyssa is eight years old, and although she understands some
Answer: A Answer: B
logical principles, she still has troubles in understanding
20. Trisha goes with her mother in school. She enjoys the 26.Which of the following is true about human development? hypothetical concepts. According to Piaget, Alyssa belongs to
workplace of her mother. Which of the following ecological a. Human development considers both maturation and learning. what particular stage of cognitive development?
theories is illustrated by the situation? b. Development refers to the progressive series of changes of an a. Sensorimotor
a. Microsystem orderly coherent type toward the goal of maturity. b. Preoperational
b. Mesosystem c. Development is the gradual and orderly unfolding of the c. Concrete operational
c. Exosystem characteristics of the individuals as they go through the successive d. Formal operational
d. Macrosystem stages of growth.
Answer: C
d. All of the above
Answer: C
33.Which of the following provides the best broad description of
Answer: D
21. Lito, a student in secondary level tends to spend more time the relationship between heredity and environment in
with his friends and his family, thus, his behavior is greatly 27. What do you call the quantitative increase in terms of height determining height?
affected by them. In which stage in the Psychosocial Stages of and weight as observed by the school physician during the a. Heredity is the primary influence, with environment affecting
Development does Lito belong? physical examination of the students? development only in severe situations.
a. Autonomous vs Shame and Doubt a. Development b. Heredity and environment contribute equally to development
b. Identity vs. Role Confusion b. Growth c. Environment is the major influence on physical characteristics.
c. Intimacy vs. Isolation c. Learning d. Heredity directs the individual's potential and environment
d. Initiative vs. Guilt d. Maturation determines whether and to what degree the individual reaches
the potential.
Answer: D Answer: B
Answer: A
22. Anna believes that authority is respected. She is now in what 28. Mrs. Gomez conducts research on the psychosocial domain of
particular level in moral development theory of Lawrence development. In what particular area of the child's development 34. What is the correct sequence of prenatal stages of
Kholberg? is Mrs. Gomez most likely to be interested with? development?
a. Social contract a. Perceptual abilities a. Embryo, germinal, fetus
b. Law and order orientation b. Brain-wave patterns b. Germinal, fetus, embryo
c. Interpersonal concordance c. Emotions c. Germinal, embryo, fetus
d. Universal ethics orientation d. Use of language d. Embryo, fetus, germinal
Answer: A Answer: C Answer: C
23. What level has a four year old learner like Maryann reached 29. Which of the following is the correct order of psychosexual 35. When a baby realized that a rubber duck which has fallen out
when she acquired new skills such as putting the same shapes and stages proposed by Sigmund Freud? of the tub must be somewhere on the floor, he is likely to
the same colors together? a. Oral stage, anal stage, phallic stage, latency stage, genital stage achieved what aspect of cognitive development?
a. Development b. Anal stage, oral stage, phallic stage, latency stage, genital stage a. Object permanence
b. Maturation c. Oral stage, anal stage, genital stage, latency stage, phallic stage b. Deferred imitation
c. Zone of Proximal Development d. Anal stage, oral stage, genital stage, latency stage, phallic stage c. Mental combinations
d. Learning d. Goal-directed behavior
Answer: A
Answer: C Answer: A
30. What is the best description of Erickson's psychosocial theory
24. Which of the following principles can be the basis of the of human development? 36. Which of the following will be Freud's description of the child's
growing realization of the significance of the early childhood a. Eight crises all people are thought to lace behavior if he he has biting, sarcastic manner?
education? b. Four psychosocial stages in latency period a. Anally expulsive
a. The young children are capable of doing many things at an early c. The same number of stages as Freud's, but with different names b. Anally retentive
stage. d. A stage theory that is not psychoanalytic c. Fixated in the oral stage
b. The child should be seen and should learn. d. Experiencing the crisis of trust vs. mistrust
Answer: A
c. The first five years of life are the formative years of the child.
Answer: C
d. Early childhood experiences can be interesting and challenging. 31. In Erickson's theory, what is the unresolved crisis of an adult
who has difficulty establishing a secure, mutual relationship with 37. What is Freud's idea about a young boy's guilt feelings brought
Answer: B
a life partner? about by jealousy of his father's relationship with his mother?
a. Electra complex b. Conventional 49. According to Erikson, what is the primary task of adolescent?
b. Oedipus complex c. Post-conventional a. To establish trust
c. Phallic complex d. None of the above b. To search for his identity
d. Penis envy complex c. To be more intimate with others
Answer: B
d. To establish integrity
Answer: B
44. According to Kohlberg, a dutiful citizen who obeys the laws set
Answer: B
38. When a little girl who says she wants her mother to go on down by society is at which level of moral reasoning?
vacation so that she can marry her father, Freud believes that he a. Pre-conventional Stage One 50. What is the main source of emotional support for most young
is voicing a fantasy consistent with? b. Pre-conventional Stage Two people who are establishing independence from their parents?
a. Oedipus complex c. Conventional a. Older adolescents of the opposite sex
b. Electra complex d. Post-conventional b. Older sibling
c. Theory of mind c. Teachers
Answer: C
d. Crisis of initiative vs. Guilt d. Peer groups
45. Ana, who is low-achieving, shy and withdrawn, is rejected by
Answer: B Answer: D
most of her peers. her teacher wants to help Ana increase her
39. Which of the following can best describe the preschooler's self-esteem and social acceptance. What can Joy's teacher suggest By: http://www.prcboard.com/1.Dr. Escoto, the school physician
readiness to learn new task and play activities? to her parents? conducted a physical examination in Ms. Manuel's class. What
a. Emerging competency and self-awareness a. Transfer her to a different school concept best describes the quantitative increase observed by Dr.
b. Theory of the Mind b. Help their daughter improve her motor skills Escoto among learners in terms of height and weight?
c. Relationship with parents c. Help their daughter learn to accept more responsibility for her a. Development
d. Growing identification with others academic failures b. Growth
d. Help their daughter improve her skills in relating to peers c. Learning
Answer: A
d. Maturation
Answer: D
40. James noted that when the preschoolers eagerly begin many
Answer: B
new activities but are vulnerable to criticism and feelings of 46. What is the most accurate definition of puberty stage?
failure, they are experiencing what particular crisis? a. Rapid physical growth that occurs during adolescence 2. Which situation best illustrates the concept of growth?
a. Identity vs. Role Confusion b. Stage when sexual maturation is attained. a. A kinder pupil gains 2 pounds within two months.
b. Initiative vs. Guilt c. Rapid physical growth and sexual maturation that ends b. A high school student gets a score of 85 in mental ability test.
c. Basic trust vs. mistrust childhood c. An education student has gained knowledge on approaches and
d. Efficacy vs. Helplessness d. Stage when adolescents establish identifies separate from their strategies in teaching different subjects
parents. d. An elementary grader has learned to play piano.
Answer: B
Answer: C Answer: A
41. What stage of Piaget's Cognitive Development does a person
belong to when he can understand specific logical ideas and apply 47. Fifteen year old Marie is preoccupied with her "disgusting 3.Which statements below best describes development?
them to concrete problems? appearance" and seems depressed most of the time. What is the a. A high school student's height increased by 5'2" to 5'4"
a. Preoperational thought best thing her parents can do to help her get through this difficult b. A high school student's change in weight from 110 lbs. to 125
b. Operational thought time? lbs.
c. Create operational thought a. Ignore her self-preoccupation because their attention would c. A student had learned to operate the computer
d. Formal operational thought only reinforce it. d. A student's enlargement of hips
b. Encourage to "shape up" and not give in the self-pity
Answer: C Answer: C
c. Kid her about her appearance in the hope that she will see how
42. What is the best explanation of Piaget's concrete operational silly she is acting. 4.What concept can best describes Francisco's ability to walk
thought to describe the school-age child's mental ability? d. Offer practical advice, such as clothing suggestions, to improve without a support at age of 12 months because of the "internal
a. A child can reason logically about things and events he or she her body image. ripening" that occured in his muscles, bones and nervous system
perceives. development?
Answer: D
b. A child's ability to think about how he thinks a. Development
c. Can understand that certain characteristics of an object remain 48. What can be the best comparison of the behavior of a 17 year b. Growth
the same when other characteristics are changed old girl to that of her 13 year old brother? c. Learning
d. Can understand that moral principles may supersede the a. She is more likely critical about herself d. Maturation
standards of society. b. She tends to be more egocentric.
Answer: D
c. She had less confidence in her abilities.
Answer: C
d. She is more capable of reasoning hypothetically. 5.Teacher Jesus in now 69 years old has been observing changes
43. Elisa who is in between 9 and 11 years of age are most likely in himself such as the aging process. Which term refers to the
Answer: D
to demonstrate moral reasoning at which Kohlberg's stage? development change in the individual?
a. Pre-conventional a. Development
b. Growth c. Phallic c. Give him challenging activities that are appropriate to his ability
c. Learning d. Latency level and interests.
d. Maturation d. Allow him to spend longer at the playground until he gets tired.
Answer: C
Answer: D Answer: C
12. Angela focuses her attention on the school work and vigorous
6. Manuel, a five-year old boy can hold his pen and write his name play that consume most of her physical energy. Which stage of 18. Tessa gets jealous whenever she sees her father showing love
with his right hand. Which term describes Manuel's action/ psychosexual theory illustrates her behavior? and affection to her mother. Which of the following is she
behavior? a. Oral showing according to Freud?
a. Development b. Anal a. Complex
b. Growth c. Phallic b. Phallic
c. Learning d. Latency c. Electra Complex
d. Maturation d. Oedipus Complex
Answer: D
Answer: A Answer: C
13. Which of the following is likely to be developed if infants are
7. Which of the following theory can help Miss Samson determine shown genuine affection? 19. In Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development, which of the
the readiness of her learners by administering a readiness test? a. Trust following statements would illustrate Edward who is 11 years old?
a. Conditioning Theories b. Autonomy a. Able to see relationships and to reason in the abstract.
b. Cognitive Development Theory c. Initiative b. Unable to breakdown a whole into separate parts.
c. Maturation Theory d. Industry c. Differentiates goals and goal-directed activities.
d. Ethological Theory d. Experiments with methods to reach goals.
Answer: A
Answer: C Answer: A
14. Christian develops an integral and coherent sense of self. He
Mr. Francisco was very much worried about the thumb sucking of seeks answers to the question. "Who am I"? Which of the 20. Trisha goes with her mother in school. She enjoys the
his son. A friend of him says that certain behavior among infants. following is Christian likely to develop? workplace of her mother. Which of the following ecological
Who presented that notion that certain behavior like thumb- a. Initiative theories is illustrated by the situation?
sucking is normal behavior? b. Identity and Role Confusion a. Microsystem
A. Sigmund Freud c. Intimacy b. Mesosystem
b. Erick Ericson d. Autonomy c. Exosystem
c. John Bowlly d. Macrosystem
Answer: B
d. Urie Bronfrenbenner
Answer: C
15. Ms. Reyes uses images and language to represent and
Answer: A
understand her various lessons to preschool learners. What stage 21. Lito, a student in secondary level tends to spend more time
9. A newborn infant move his whole body at one time, instead of in the cognitive theory of development explains this? with his friends and his family, thus, his behavior is greatly
moving a part of it. Which of the following principles is illustrated a. Sensorimotor affected by them. In which stage in the Psychosocial Stages of
by his behavior? b. Preoperational Development does Lito belong?
a. Development proceeds from specific to general. c. Concrete operation a. Autonomous vs Shame and Doubt
b. Development proceeds from general to specific. d. Formal operation b. Identity vs. Role Confusion
c. Development follows an orderly pattern. c. Intimacy vs. Isolation
Answer: B
d. Development follows a general pattern. d. Initiative vs. Guilt
16. Connie develops concepts necessary for everyday living, builds
Answer: B Answer: D
healthy attitudes towards oneself, and achieve personal
10. Train up a child in the way he should be; when he grows up, independence. These are among the attributes of an individual in 22. Anna believes that authority is respected. She is now in what
he will not depart from it. Which principle supports this? what particular stage? particular level in moral development theory of Lawrence
a. Development is determined by his heredity a. Infancy and early childhood Kholberg?
b. Development is determined by the environment b. Middle childhood a. Social contract
c. Early development is more critical than the late development c. Adolescence b. Law and order orientation
d. Early development is less critical than late development. d. Early adulthood c. Interpersonal concordance
d. Universal ethics orientation
Answer: B Answer: B
Answer: A
11. Which state of the psycho-sexual theory does young boys 17. Some children are more active than others, as everyone
experience rivalry with their father for their mother's attention knows-extremely highlevels of activity or hyperactivity are 23. What level has a four year old learner like Maryann reached
and affection? considered problematic. How may a teacher help a child who is when she acquired new skills such as putting the same shapes and
a. Oral hyperactive? the same colors together?
b. Anal a. Make him the leader of the class a. Development
b. Transfer him to another class b. Maturation
c. Zone of Proximal Development c. Oral stage, anal stage, genital stage, latency stage, phallic stage b. Deferred imitation
d. Learning d. Anal stage, oral stage, genital stage, latency stage, phallic stage c. Mental combinations
d. Goal-directed behavior
Answer: C Answer: A
Answer: A
24. Which of the following principles can be the basis of the 30. What is the best description of Erickson's psychosocial theory
growing realization of the significance of the early childhood of human development? 36. Which of the following will be Freud's description of the child's
education? a. Eight crises all people are thought to lace behavior if he he has biting, sarcastic manner?
a. The young children are capable of doing many things at an early b. Four psychosocial stages in latency period a. Anally expulsive
stage. c. The same number of stages as Freud's, but with different names b. Anally retentive
b. The child should be seen and should learn. d. A stage theory that is not psychoanalytic c. Fixated in the oral stage
c. The first five years of life are the formative years of the child. d. Experiencing the crisis of trust vs. mistrust
Answer: A
d. Early childhood experiences can be interesting and challenging.
Answer: C
31. In Erickson's theory, what is the unresolved crisis of an adult
Answer: B
who has difficulty establishing a secure, mutual relationship with 37. What is Freud's idea about a young boy's guilt feelings brought
25. Which of the following learner's characteristics will affect a life partner? about by jealousy of his father's relationship with his mother?
most of the learners learning in the academic class? a. Initiative vs. Guilt a. Electra complex
a. His affective characteristics b. Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt b. Oedipus complex
b. His cognitive characteristics c. Intimacy vs. Isolation c. Phallic complex
c. His psychomotor characteristics d. Trust vs. Mistrust d. Penis envy complex
d. His socio-emotional characteristics
Answer: C Answer: B
Answer: B
32. Alyssa is eight years old, and although she understands some 38. When a little girl who says she wants her mother to go on
26.Which of the following is true about human development? logical principles, she still has troubles in understanding vacation so that she can marry her father, Freud believes that he
a. Human development considers both maturation and learning. hypothetical concepts. According to Piaget, Alyssa belongs to is voicing a fantasy consistent with?
b. Development refers to the progressive series of changes of an what particular stage of cognitive development? a. Oedipus complex
orderly coherent type toward the goal of maturity. a. Sensorimotor b. Electra complex
c. Development is the gradual and orderly unfolding of the b. Preoperational c. Theory of mind
characteristics of the individuals as they go through the successive c. Concrete operational d. Crisis of initiative vs. Guilt
stages of growth. d. Formal operational
Answer: B
d. All of the above
Answer: C
39. Which of the following can best describe the preschooler's
Answer: D
33.Which of the following provides the best broad description of readiness to learn new task and play activities?
27. What do you call the quantitative increase in terms of height the relationship between heredity and environment in a. Emerging competency and self-awareness
and weight as observed by the school physician during the determining height? b. Theory of the Mind
physical examination of the students? a. Heredity is the primary influence, with environment affecting c. Relationship with parents
a. Development development only in severe situations. d. Growing identification with others
b. Growth b. Heredity and environment contribute equally to development
Answer: A
c. Learning c. Environment is the major influence on physical characteristics.
d. Maturation d. Heredity directs the individual's potential and environment 40. James noted that when the preschoolers eagerly begin many
determines whether and to what degree the individual reaches new activities but are vulnerable to criticism and feelings of
Answer: B
the potential. failure, they are experiencing what particular crisis?
28. Mrs. Gomez conducts research on the psychosocial domain of a. Identity vs. Role Confusion
Answer: A
development. In what particular area of the child's development b. Initiative vs. Guilt
is Mrs. Gomez most likely to be interested with? 34. What is the correct sequence of prenatal stages of c. Basic trust vs. mistrust
a. Perceptual abilities development? d. Efficacy vs. Helplessness
b. Brain-wave patterns a. Embryo, germinal, fetus
Answer: B
c. Emotions b. Germinal, fetus, embryo
d. Use of language c. Germinal, embryo, fetus 41. What stage of Piaget's Cognitive Development does a person
d. Embryo, fetus, germinal belong to when he can understand specific logical ideas and apply
Answer: C
them to concrete problems?
Answer: C
29. Which of the following is the correct order of psychosexual a. Preoperational thought
stages proposed by Sigmund Freud? 35. When a baby realized that a rubber duck which has fallen out b. Operational thought
a. Oral stage, anal stage, phallic stage, latency stage, genital stage of the tub must be somewhere on the floor, he is likely to c. Create operational thought
b. Anal stage, oral stage, phallic stage, latency stage, genital stage achieved what aspect of cognitive development? d. Formal operational thought
a. Object permanence
Answer: C
42. What is the best explanation of Piaget's concrete operational
thought to describe the school-age child's mental ability?
a. A child can reason logically about things and events he or she
perceives.
b. A child's ability to think about how he thinks
c. Can understand that certain characteristics of an object remain
the same when other characteristics are changed
d. Can understand that moral principles may supersede the
standards of society.
Answer: C
43. Elisa who is in between 9 and 11 years of age are most likely
to demonstrate moral reasoning at which Kohlberg's stage?
a. Pre-conventional
b. Conventional
c. Post-conventional
d. None of the above
Answer: B
44. According to Kohlberg, a dutiful citizen who obeys the laws set
down by society is at which level of moral reasoning?
a. Pre-conventional Stage One
b. Pre-conventional Stage Two
c. Conventional
d. Post-conventional
Answer: C
45. Ana, who is low-achieving, shy and withdrawn, is rejected by
most of her peers. her teacher wants to help Ana increase her
self-esteem and social acceptance. What can Joy's teacher suggest
to her parents?
a. Transfer her to a different school
b. Help their daughter improve her motor skills
c. Help their daughter learn to accept more responsibility for her
academic failures
d. Help their daughter improve her skills in relating to peers
Answer: D
46. What is the most accurate definition of puberty stage?
a. Rapid physical growth that occurs during adolescence
b. Stage when sexual maturation is attained.
c. Rapid physical growth and sexual maturation that ends
childhood
d. Stage when adolescents establish identifies separate from their
parents.
Answer: C
47. Fifteen year old Marie is preoccupied with her "disgusting
appearance" and seems depressed most of the time. What is the
best thing her parents can do to help her get through this difficult
time?
a. Ignore her self-preoccupation because their attention would
only reinforce it.
b. Encourage to "shape up" and not give in the self-pity
c. Kid her about her appearance in the hope that she will see how
silly she is acting. stages proposed by Sigmund Freud?
d. Offer practical advice, such as clothing suggestions, to improve a. Oral stage, anal stage, phallic stage, latency stage, genital stage
her body image. b. Anal stage, oral stage, phallic stage, latency stage, genital stage
c. Oral stage, anal stage, genital stage, latency stage, phallic stage
Answer: D
d. Anal stage, oral stage, genital stage, latency stage, phallic stage
48. What can be the best comparison of the behavior of a 17 year
old girl to that of her 13 year old brother? 5. What is the best description of Erickson's psychosocial theory
a. She is more likely critical about herself of human development?
b. She tends to be more egocentric. a. Eight crises all people are thought to lace
c. She had less confidence in her abilities. b. Four psychosocial stages in latency period
d. She is more capable of reasoning hypothetically. c. The same number of stages as Freud's, but with different names
d. A stage theory that is not psychoanalytic
Answer: D
49. According to Erikson, what is the primary task of adolescent? 6. In Erickson's theory, what is the unresolved crisis of an adult
a. To establish trust who has difficulty establishing a secure, mutual relationship with
b. To search for his identity a life partner?
c. To be more intimate with others a. Initiative vs. Guilt
d. To establish integrity b. Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt
Answer: B c. Intimacy vs. Isolation
d. Trust vs. Mistrust
50. What is the main source of emotional support for most young
people who are establishing independence from their parents? 7. Alyssa is eight years old, and although she understands some
a. Older adolescents of the opposite sex logical principles, she still has troubles in understanding
b. Older sibling hypothetical concepts. According to Piaget, Alyssa belongs to
c. Teachers what particular stage of cognitive development?
d. Peer groups a. Sensorimotor
Answer: D b. Preoperational
c. Concrete operational
d. Formal operational
1. Which of the following is true about human development? 8. Which of the following provides the best broad description of
a. Human development considers both maturation and learning. the relationship between heredity and environment in
b. Development refers to the progressive series of changes of an determining height?
orderly coherent type toward the goal of maturity. a. Heredity is the primary influence, with environment affecting
c. Development is the gradual and orderly unfolding of the development only in severe situations.
characteristics of the individuals as they go through the successive b. Heredity and environment contribute equally to development
stages of growth. c. Environment is the major influence on physical characteristics.
d. All of the above d. Heredity directs the individual's potential and environment
determines whether and to what degree the individual reaches
the potential.
2. What do you call the quantitative increase in terms of height
and weight as observed by the school physician during the
9. What is the correct sequence of prenatal stages of
physical examination of the students?
development?
a. Development
a. Embryo, germinal, fetus
b. Growth
b. Germinal, fetus, embryo
c. Learning
c. Germinal, embryo, fetus
d. Maturation
d. Embryo, fetus, germinal
3. Mrs. Gomez conducts research on the psychosocial domain of
10. When a baby realized that a rubber duck which has fallen out
development. In what particular area of the child's development
of the tub must be somewhere on the floor, he is likely to
is Mrs. Gomez most likely to be interested with?
achieved what aspect of cognitive development?
a. Perceptual abilities
a. Object permanence
b. Brain-wave patterns
b. Deferred imitation
c. Emotions
c. Mental combinations
d. Use of language
d. Goal-directed behavior
4. Which of the following is the correct order of psychosexual
11. Which of the following will be Freud's description of the child's 18. Elisa who is in between 9 and 11 years of age are most likely d. To establish integrity
behavior if he he has biting, sarcastic manner? to demonstrate moral reasoning at which Kohlberg's stage?
a. Anally expulsive a. Pre-conventional 25. What is the main source of emotional support for most young
b. Anally retentive b. Conventional people who are establishing independence from their parents?
c. Fixated in the oral stage c. Post-conventional a. Older adolescents of the opposite sex
d. Experiencing the crisis of trust vs. mistrust d. None of the above b. Older sibling
c. Teachers
12. What is Freud's idea about a young boy's guilt feelings brought 19. According to Kohlberg, a dutiful citizen who obeys the laws set d. Peer groups
about by jealousy of his father's relationship with his mother? down by society is at which level of moral reasoning?
a. Electra complex a. Pre-conventional Stage One Answers: 1D 2B 3C 4A 5A 6C 7C 8A 9C 10A 11C 12B 13B 14A 15B
b. Oedipus complex b. Pre-conventional Stage Two 16C 17C 18B 19C 20D 21C 22D 23D 24B 25D
c. Phallic complex c. Conventional
d. Penis envy complex d. Post-conventional

13. When a little girl who says she wants her mother to go on
vacation so that she can marry her father, Freud believes that he
is voicing a fantasy consistent with?
a. Oedipus complex
b. Electra complex
c. Theory of mind
d. Crisis of initiative vs. Guilt
14. Which of the following can best describe the preschooler's
readiness to learn new task and play activities?
a. Emerging competency and self-awareness
b. Theory of the Mind
c. Relationship with parents
d. Growing identification with others
15. James noted that when the preschoolers eagerly begin many
new activities but are vulnerable to criticism and feelings of
failure, they are experiencing what particular crisis?
a. Identity vs. Role Confusion
b. Initiative vs. Guilt
c. Basic trust vs. mistrust
d. Efficacy vs. Helplessness
16. What stage of Piaget's Cognitive Development does a person
belong to when he can understand specific logical ideas and apply
them to concrete problems?
a. Preoperational thought
b. Operational thought
c. Create operational thought
d. Formal operational thought
17. What is the best explanation of Piaget's concrete operational
thought to describe the school-age child's mental ability?
a. A child can reason logically about things and events he or she
perceives.
b. A child's ability to think about how he thinks
c. Can understand that certain characteristics of an object remain
the same when other characteristics are changed
d. Can understand that moral principles may supersede the
standards of society.
20. Ana, who is low-achieving, shy and withdrawn, is rejected by
most of her peers. her teacher wants to help Ana increase her
self-esteem and social acceptance. What can Joy's teacher suggest
to her parents?
a. Transfer her to a different school
b. Help their daughter improve her motor skills
c. Help their daughter learn to accept more responsibility for her
academic failures
d. Help their daughter improve her skills in relating to peers
21. What is the most accurate definition of puberty stage?
a. Rapid physical growth that occurs during adolescence
b. Stage when sexual maturation is attained.
c. Rapid physical growth and sexual maturation that ends
childhood
d. Stage when adolescents establish identifies separate from their
parents.
22. Fifteen year old Marie is preoccupied with her "disgusting
appearance" and seems depressed most of the time. What is the
best thing her parents can do to help her get through this difficult
time?
a. Ignore her self-preoccupation because their attention would
only reinforce it.
b. Encourage to "shape up" and not give in the self-pity
c. Kid her about her appearance in the hope that she will see how
silly she is acting.
d. Offer practical advice, such as clothing suggestions, to improve
her body image.
23. What can be the best comparison of the behavior of a 17 year
old girl to that of her 13 year old brother?
a. She is more likely critical about herself
b. She tends to be more egocentric.
c. She had less confidence in her abilities.
d. She is more capable of reasoning hypothetically.
24. According to Erikson, what is the primary task of adolescent?
a. To establish trust
b. To search for his identity
c. To be more intimate with others