1.     Principal B tells her teachers that training in the humanities is most important.

To which educational philosophy does he

adhere?
a.     Existentialism                c. Progressivism
b.     Perennialism                 d. Essentialism

2.     Principal C shares this thought with his teachers: "Subject matter should help students understand and appreciate themselves as
unique individuals who accept complete responsibility for their thoughts, feelings, and actions." From which philosophy is this
thought based?
a.     Perennialism                 c. Existentialism
b.     Essentialism                 d. Progressivism

3.     To come closer to the truth we need to "go back to the things themselves." This is the advice of the
a.     behaviorists                   c. idealists
b.     phenomenologists         d. pragmatists

4.     Student B claims: "I cannot see perfection but I long for it. So it must be real." Under which group can he be classified?
a.     Idealist                           c. Realist
b.     Empiridst                       d. Pragmatist.

5.     Which of the following prepositions is attributed to Plato?

a.     Truth is relative to a particular time and place
b.     Human beings create their own truths.
c.     Learning is the discovery of truth as Iatent ideas are brought to consciousness.
d.     Sense perception is the most accurate guide to knowledge.

6.     On whose philosophy was A. S. Neil's Summerhill, one of the most experimental schools, based?
a.     Rousseau                        c. Montessori
b.     Pestalozzi                        d. John Locke

7.     As a teacher, you are a rationalist. Which among these will be your guiding principle?
a.     I must teach the child that we can never have real knowledge of anything.
b.     I must teach the child to develop his mental powers to the full.
c.     I must teach the child so he is assured of heaven.
d.     I must teach the child every knowledge, skill, and value that he needs for a better future.

8.     Teacher U teaches to his pupils that pleasure is not the highest good. Teacher's teaching is against what philosophy?
a.     Realism                        c. Epicureanism
b.     Hedonism                     d. Empiricism

9.     Who among the following puts more emphasis on core requirements, longer school day, longer academic year and more challenging
textbooks?
a.     Perennialist                   c. Progressivist
b.     Essentialist                   d. Existentialist

10.  Which group of philosophers maintain that "truth exists in an objective order that is independent of the knower"?
a.     Idealists                        c. Existentialists
b.     Pragmatists                  d. Realists

11.  You arrive at knowledge by re-thinking of latent ideas. From whom does this thought come?
a.     Experimentalist             c. Idealist
b.     Realist                          d. Existentialist

12.  As a teacher, you are a reconstructionist. Which among these will be your guiding principle?
a.     I must teach the child every knowledge, skill, and value that he needs for a better future.
b.     I must teach the child to develop his mental powers to the full.
c.     I must teach the child so he is assured of heaven.
d.     I must teach the child that we can never have real knowledge of anything.

13.  Teacher B engages her students with information for thorough understanding for meaning and for competent application. Which
principle governs Teacher B's practice?
a.     Contructivist                  c. Behaviorist
b.     Gestalt                          d. Cognitivist

14.  Which is/are the sources of man's intellectual drives, according to Freud?

a.     Id                                   c. Id and ego
b.     Superego                      d. Ego

15.  Soc exhibits fear response to freely roaming dogs but does not show fear when a dog is on a leash or confined to a pen. Which
conditioning process is illustrated
a.     Generalization               c. Acquisition
b.     Extinction                       d. Discrimination

16.  The concepts of trust vs. maturity, autonomy vs. self-doubt, and initiative vs. guilt are most closely related with the works of
__________.
a.     Erikson             b. Piaget                  c. Freud                d. Jung
17.  Teacher F is convinced that whenever a student performs a desired behavior, provided reinforcement and soon the student will learn
to perform the behavior on his own. On which principle is Teacher F's conviction based?
a.     Cognitivism                    c. Behaviorism
b.     Environmentalism          d. Constructivism

18.  In a social studies class, Teacher I presents a morally ambiguous situation and asks his students what they would do. On whose
theory is Teacher I's technique based?
a.     Kohlberg                       c. Piaget
b.     Bandura                        d. Bruner

19.  Based on Freud's psychoanalytic theory which component(s) of personality is (are) concerned with a sense of right and wrong?
a.     Super-ego                      c. ld
b.     Super-ego and Ego       d. Ego

20.  Which does Naom Chomsky, assert about language learning for children?
I.  Young children learn and apply grammatical rules and vocabulary as they are   exposed to them.
II.  Begin formal teaching of grammatical rules to children as early as possible.
III.  Do not require initial formal language teaching for children.
a.     I and III                         c. I only
b.     II only                           d. I and II

21.  Which teaching activity is founded on Bandura's Social Learning Theory?

a.     Lecturing                      c. Questioning
b.     Modeling                      d. lnductive Reasoning

22.  Behavior followed by pleasant consequences will be strengthened and will be more likely to occur in the future. Behavior followed by
unpleasant consequences will be weakened and will be less likely to be repeated in the future. Which one is explained?
a.     Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory
b.     Thorndike's Law of Effect
c.     B. F. Skinner's Operant Conditioning Theory
d.     Bandura's Social Learning Theory

23.  Bruner's theory on intellectual development moves from enactive to iconic and symbolic stages. In which stage(s) are diagrams
helpful to accompany verbal information?
a.     Enactive and iconic             c. Symbolic and enactive
b.     Symbolic                             d. Iconic

24.  In a treatment for alcoholism, Ramil was made to drink an alcoholic beverage and then made to ingest a drug that produces nausea.
Eventually, he was nauseated at the sight and smell of alcohol and stopped drinking alcohoL Which theory explains this?
a.     Operant conditioning
b.     Social Learning Theory
c.     Associative Learning
d.     Attribution Theory

25.  A mother gives his boy his favorite snack every time the boy cleans up his room. Afterwards, the boy cleaned his room everyday in
anticipation of the snack. Which theory is illustrated?
a.     Associative Learning
b.     Classical Conditioning
c.     Operant Conditioning
d.     Pavlonian Conditioning

26.  Researches conducted show that teacher's expectations of students become. Do not require initial formal language teaching for
children self-fulfilling prophecies. What is this phenomenon called?
a.     Halo effect                    c. Ripple effect
b.     Pygmalion effect           d. Hawthorne effect

27.  What does extreme authoritarianism in the home reinforce in learners?

a.     Doing things on their own initiative
b.     Ability to direct themselves.
c.     Dependence on others for direction.
d.     Creativity in work.

28.  Theft of school equipment like tv, computer, etc. by teenagers in the community itself is becoming a common phenomenon. What
does this incident signify?
a.     Prevalence of poverty in the community.
b.     Inability of school to hire security guards.
c.     Deprivation of Filipino schools.
d.     Community's lack of sense of co-ownership.

29.  A student passes a research report poorly written but ornately presented in a folder to make up for the poor quality of the book report
content. Which Filipino trait does this practice prove? Emphasis on __________.
a.     art over academics
b.     substance over "porma"
c.     art over science
d.     "porma" over substance

30.  Student Z does not study at all but when the Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) comes, before he takes the LET, he spends
one hour or more praying for a miracle, i.e. to pass the exam. Which attitude towards religion or God is displayed?
a.     Religion as fake
b.     Religion as magic
c.     Religion as authentic
d.     Religion as real

31.  During the Spanish period, what was/were the medium/media of instruction in schools?
a.     The Vernacular
b.     English
c.     Spanish
d.     Spanish and the Vernacular

32.  All subjects in Philippine elementary and secondary schools are expected to be taught using the integrated approach. This came
about as a result of the implementation of _________.
a.     Program for Decentralized Education
b.     School-Based Management
c.     Basic Education Curriculum
d.     Schools First Initiative

33.  Under which program were students who were not accommodated in public elementary and secondary schools because of lack of
classroom, teachers, and instructional materials, were enrolled in private schools in their respective communities at the
government's expense?
a.     Government Assistance Program
b.     Study Now-Pay Later
c.     Educational Service Contract System
d.     National Scholarship Program

34.  What was the most prominent educational issue of the mid 1980s?
a.     Bilingual Education        c. Accountability
b.     Values Education           d. Mainstreaming

35.  Availment of the Philippine Education Placement Test (PEPT) for adults and out-of-school youths is in support of the government’s
educational program towards __________
a.     equitable access           c. quality and relevance
b.     quality                           d. relevance

36.  The main purpose of compulsory study of the Constitution is to __________

a.     develop students into responsible, thinking citizens
b.     acquaint students with the historical development of the Philippine Constitution
c.     make constitutional experts of the students
d.     prepare students for law-making

37.  Which one may support equitable access but may sacrifice quality?
a.     Open admission
b.     School accreditation
c.     Deregulated tuition fee hike
d.     Selective retention

38.  With which goals of educational institutions as provided for by the Constitution is the development of work skills aligned?
a.     To develop moral character
b.     To teach the duties of citizenship
c.     To inculcate love of country
d.     To develop vocational efficiency

39.  Studies in the areas of neurosciences disclosed that the human brain has limitless capacity. What does this imply?
a.     Some pupils are admittedly not capable of learning.
b.     Every pupil has his own native ability and his learning is limited to this nativeabilty.
c.     Every child is a potential genius.
d.     Pupils can possibly reach a point where they have learned everything.

40.  Based on Piaget's theory, what should a teacher provide for children in the concrete operational stage?
a.     Activities for hypothesis formulation.
b.     Learning activities that involve problems of classification and ordering.
c.     Games and other physical activities to develop motor skills.
d.     Stimulating environment with ample objects to play with.

41.  Based on Piaget's theory, what should a teacher provide for children in the sensimotor stage?
a.     Games and other physical activities to develop motor skill.
b.     Learning activities that involve problems of classification and ordering.
c.     Activities for hypothesis formulation.
d.     Stimulating environment with ample objects to play with.

42.  Which behavior is exhibited by a student who is strong in interpersonal intelligence?

a.     Works on his/her own.
b.     Keeps interest to himself/herself.
c.     Seeks out a classmate for help when problem occurs.
d.     Spends time meditating.

43.  A sixth grade twelve-year old boy comes from a dysfunctional family and has been abused and neglected. He has been to two
orphanages and three different elementary schools. The student can decode on the second grade level, but he can comprehend
orally material at the fourth or fifth grade level. The most probable cause/s of this student's reading problem is/are __________.
a.     emotional factors           c. neurological factors
b.     poor teaching                d. immaturity

44.  A child who gets punished for stealing candy may not steal again immediately. But this does not mean that the child may not steal
again. Based on Thorndike's theory on punishment and learning, this shows that __________
a.     punishment strengthens a response
b.     punishment removes a response
c.     punishment does not remove a response
d.     punishment weakens a response

45.  It is not wise to laugh at a two-year old child when he utters bad word because in his stage he is learning to __________.
a.     consider other's views
b.     distinguish sex differences
c.     socialize
d.     distinguish right from wrong

46.  John Watson said: "Men are built not born." What does this statement point to?
a.     The ineffectiveness of training on a person's development.
b.     The effect of environmental stimulation on a person's development.
c.     The absence of genetic influence on a person's development.
d.     The effect of heredity.

47.  Which types of play is most characteristic of a four to six-year old child?

a.     Solitary and onlooker plays
b.     Associative and cooperative plays
c.     Associative and onlooker plays
d.     Cooperative and solitary plays

48.  All of the following describe the development of children aged eleven to thirteen EXCEPT __________.
a.     they shift from impulsivity to adaptive ability
b.     sex differences in IQ becomes more evident
c.     they exhibit increase objectivity in thinking
d.     they show abstract thinking and judgment

49.  Rodel is very aloof and cold in his relationships with his classmates. Which basic goal must have not been attained by Rodel during
his developmental years, according to Erikson's theory on psychological development?
a.     Autonomy                     c. Initiative
b.     Trust                             d. Generativity

50.  Ruben is very attached to his mother and Ruth to her father. In what developmental stage are they according to Freudian
psychological theory?
a.     Oedipal stage                c. Annal stage
b.     Latent stage                  d. Pre-genital stage

Answer Key:
1. a
2. c
3. a
4. d
5. c
6. a
7. b
8. b
9. b
10. d
11. a
12. a
13. d
14. c
15. d
16. b
17. c
18. b
19. b
20. d
21. d
22. c
23. b
24. c
25. d
26. b
27. b
28. d
29. d
30. b
31. d
32. c
33. d
34. a
35. a
36. a
37. a
38. d
39. c
40. b
41. a
42. c
43. c
44. c
45. a
46. b
47. b
48. a
49. b
50. a