LET REVIEWER: Child and Adolescence 7.

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