CHILD AND ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT

1. The process by which certain potentials are inherited from the parents for his development
a. Life c. Heredity
b. Birth d. Character
Correct answer: c
2. This theory states that there are 8 basic development stages that the individual has to pass through his life
a. Learning Theory
b. Psychoanalytic Theory
c. Psychosocial Theory
d. Cognitive Development
Correct answer: c
3. Transition age from childhood to adulthood where rapid physical changes and sex maturity occur resulting in
changes in ways of feelings, thinking and acting.
a. Puberty c. Early adulthood
b. Adolescence d. Stage V
Correct answer: b
4. Modifying an existing scheme after an individual’s interaction with the environment, resulting in the creation of a
new scheme.
a. Assimilation c. Recognition
b. Interaction d. Accommodation
Correct answer: d
5. Theory stating that a person’s behavior can be motivated by urges towards self satisfaction.
a. Psychoanalytic Theory
b. Cognitive development theory
c. Psychosocial Theory
d. Moral development theory
Correct answer: A
6. The ability of a child to conceptualize the retention and preservation of the same quantity under various changes.
a. Recognition c. Assimilation
b. Reversibility d. Conservation
Correct answer: D
7. Refers to the idea that no individual are exactly the same or alike.
a. Cognitive theory c. Individual differences
b. Exclusivity theory d. Emotional quotient
Correct answer: C
8. He is known as the Father of Modern I.Q. Test
a. Lewis Terman c. Laurence Kohlberg
b. Erick Erickson d. Martin Lesley
Correct answer: A
9. “Intellectual appreciative Experience” is …
a. base on the premise that all learning has emotional correlates
b. obtained in the field of music, art and literature
c. the acquisition and retention o acts and information
d. assumes that human activities are based on stimulus and response
Correct answer: A
10. These statements imply that children at the early learning stage consider parents and teachers as authorities and
models.
a. Parents and teachers should always coordinate children’s activities
b. Parents should enforce strict discipline at home and teachers in school
c. Parents and teachers should be the role models at all times
d. Parents and teachers should always consult each other with regards the child’s intellectual development
Correct answer: C
11. Any change in the behavior of an individual
a. Learning c. Change
b. Response d. Development
Correct answer: A
12. Which of the following principles IS NOT considered under Classical Conditioning by Ivan Pavlov?
a. Excitation
b. Adhesive Principle
c. Stimulus Generalization
d. None of the above
Correct answer: D
13. The reinforcement of a person’s responses by presentation or removal of rewards and punishment.
a. Operant conditioning c. Feedback Principle
b. Transfer of learning d. Discipline
Correct answer: C
14. This stimulation of action best explains the behavior of an individual to take what he perceives to be the shortest
route to his goals.
a. Recognition c. Response
b. Assimilation d. Motivation
15. The process by which an individual acquires the social and cultural heritage o the society where he belongs.
a. Socialization c. Integration
b. Internalization d. Acquisition
Correct answer: A
16. Philosophy of education’s main function.
a. Aid the leaner to build his own personal philosophy
b. Definition o goals and setting of directions from which education
c. Educations carries on a lifetime cycle
d. Provision of academic background prerequisite to learning
Correct answer: B
17. According to Froebel, kindergarten is also known as “____________?
a. children have fun and enjoyment
b. Garden where children could grow
c. He learning Center for Life
d. Where new beginnings begin
Correct answer: A
18. Which of the following statements is given emphasis by “humanistic education?”
a. The great works of man such as the classics should be enjoyed.
b. Man should learn the different philosophies of education
c. “Build a man who is distinctly civilized, educations and refined”
d. Develop man into a thinking individual
Correct answer: C
19. A teacher who advocates the pragmatic philosophy of education believes that experience should follow
learning, thus, she has to?
a. require her student mastery of the lessons
b. encourage her students to memorize facts
c. equip her students with basic skills and abilities
d. provide her student with opportunities to apply their skills and abilities
Correct answer: D
20. How are institutions of learning encouraged to set higher standards over and above the minimum
requirement for state recognition?
a. Scholastic achievement
b. Faculty development
c. Academic freedom
d. Voluntary accreditation
Correct answer: D
21. The period of physical, especially sexual, and mental maturation which is characterized by rapid somatic
growth is known as
a. infancy c. puberty
b. early childhood d. adulthood
Correct answer: C
22. Claustrophobia is an irrational fear of
a. Darkness c. closed space
b. strangers d. height
Correct answer: C
23. An eye defect characterized by clear vision in one dimension but unfocused vision on the other is called
a. myopia c. hyperopia
b. astigmatism d. presbyopia
Correct answer: B
24. Which of the following statements does not apply to adolescents?
a. they desire the approval of their peers
b. they seek dependence on their parents
c. they have a marked sex development
d. none of the above
Correct answer: B
25. As young people mature, society expects them to develop competencies and assume social roles in a
conventional manner.
a. expectation of parents
b. influence of peers groups
c. influence of formal education
d. cultural demands
Correct answer: D
26. The founder of the theory of psychology called psychoanalysis was
a. Lock c. Freud
b. Hume d. Leibnitz
Correct answer: C
27. When the learner reaches a point where no further improvement can be expected, he is in a so-called
a. development crisis c. regression
b. learning plateau d. depression
Correct answer: B
28. Regarding the sexual maturation o boys and girls, teachers should bear in mind that:
a. girls mature at a late stage than boys
b. girls mature at an earlier stage than boys
c. boys and girls mature at the same time
d. there are no marked differences in heir time of maturity
Correct answer: B
29. Rationalization is used by student who
a. always give explanation or reason for their failures rather than own their faults
b. like to take the blame for their faults
c. bribe their elders with promises
d. substitute words for deeds
Correct answer: A
30. Which of the following is true of Abnormal Psychology?
a. it studies the cause of personality defects
b. it measures the accomplishments of the individual
c. it concentrates on the scholastic performance of the individual
d. it investigates the educational background of the individual
Correct answer: A
31. Which of the following is a continuous variable?
a. weight c. nationality
b. sex d. race
Correct answer: A
32. Which of the following is true about one’s IQ?
a. it remains fairly constant
b. it is highly changeable
c. it is affected by attitude
d. it is never constant
Correct answer: A
33. Transfer of training easily takes place if the activities involved
a. Are different
b. Have identical element
c. Occur in the same place
d. Vary in difficulty
Correct answer: B
34. When the learner is well-motivated, he performs his task
a. with indifference c. with arrogance
b. with disinterest d. with enthusiasm
Correct answer: D
35. A six-year-old child who has a mental age of eight years has an IQ of
a. 120 b. 130 c. 132 d. 133
Correct answer: D
36. The ratio obtained by dividing mental age by chronological age times 100 is called
a. derived quotient
b. deviation
c. intelligence quotient or IQ
d. intelligence ratio
Correct answer: C
37. Which of the following was written by Plato?
a. Sic et Non c. The Republic
b. The School and Society d. Emile
Correct answer: C
38. Who among those below asserted that “Education is for complete living”
a. Dewey c. Kant
b. Spencer d. Froebel
Correct answer: B
39. The right of an educational institution and its faculty to prescribe the methods/strategies of teaching refers
to:
a. building style
b. choice of curriculum
c. academic freedom
d. co and extra curricular program
Correct answer: C
40. The 1987 Constitution provides that religious institution can be given
a. with the students’ consent
b. with the parent/guardian approval
c. with mayor’s permit
d. with the school’s support
Correct answer: B
41. Public schools in the Philippines are the contribution of which colonizer?
a. American c. Japanese
b. British d. Spanish
Correct answer: A
42. Hardship allowance is given to a teacher when
a. he’s assigned in a depressed area
b. he’s given additional teaching load
c. he’s in lahar area
d. he’s assigned in a hazardous area
Correct answer: C
43. The ability for quantitative learning of the relations of facts taken from newspaper readings, letter writing
and the like is called:
a. functional literacy c. Knowledge outcome
b. adjustment learning d. Social competence
Correct answer: D
44. A teacher who gives a uniform assignment to be worked out by all learners in Arithmetic is not observing a
characteristic of a good assignment. Which characteristic is overlooked?
a. It should be definite
b. It should be stimulating
c. It should emphasize the essential
d. It should provide for individual differences
Correct answer: D
45. If a student ask a question which the teacher does not have a ready answer, the latter should:
a. dismiss the question as irrelevant
b. offer a bluff
c. admit the fact that he doesn’t know the answer
d. ask volunteers to answer the question and do research on it later.
Correct answer: A
46. The heredity traits acquired by a person in his lifetime;
a. are transmissible to his offspring
b. reappear in his future grandparent
c. Have no influence on the offspring
d. Become recessive traits
Correct answer: A
47. When student are given a chance to settle differences of opinion by discussion, they develop:
a. fair play c. irritants
b. tolerance d. sociability
Correct answer: B
48. The school’s responsibility towards teenagers “gang age” is:
a. provide the gang all the freedom it needs
b. gives classroom activities to give direction to out-of-school youth activities
c. supervise gang activities
d. set up norms of conduct or the member of the gang
Correct answer: B
49. In an intelligence test, a 13-year old girl got a score equivalent to that of a 15-year old. This means:
a. that the girl must be accelerated
b. that the girl is 2-years older mentally
c. that the girl has a chronological age of 15
d. that she has a mental age of 13
Correct answer: B
50. Which statement is not necessary to achieve the learner’s interest in a learning activity?
a. the activity must lead to a practical end
b. the activity must be within the ability of the learner
c. the activity must fill a need recognized by the learner
d. the learner must have the experience that will furnish the background for the activity
Correct answer: A
51. He is responsible for the theory which recognizes the importance of developing multiple intelligence
a. Jean Piaget c. Frederick Freobel
b. Howard Gardner d. Sigmund Freud
Correct answer: C
52. The need to recognize and develop special sensitivity to language, thus helping the learners to use the right
word, phrase and/ or graph to grasp new meaning refers to
a. visual intelligence c. feelings sensitivity
b. linguistic intelligence d. jargon
Correct answer: B
53. The sensitivity to tone and pitch, allowing one to produce musical scoring is intelligence in?
a. musical c. quantitative exercises
b. verbal ability d. qualitative analysis
Correct answer: A
54. One’s ability to do abstract reasoning and manipulate symbols refers to what type of intelligence?
a. musical
b. personality identification
c. mental ability
d. mathematical-logical
Correct answer: D
55. The ability to perceive how objects are related in order to mentally perceive what is seen, thus creating
concrete visual images from memory refers to?
a. visual-spatial intelligence
b. musical
c. language
d. logical reasoning
Correct answer: A
56. The capacity to analyze one’s feelings and thus be able to understand and be able to know the motives of
other people’s actions.
a. spatial c. logical
b. personal d. diametric
Correct answer: B
57. The type of intelligence which enables a person to understand other person’s feelings, behavior and
motivation.
a. emotional c. social intelligence
b. spatial d. quantitative and qualitative
Correct answer: C
58. The type of intelligence which characterizes actress, actors, mimes, dancers and people of the Arts?
a. bodily-kinesthetic c. research
b. scientific d. emotions
Correct answer: A
59. An emerging thrust in determining one’s personality, whether pleasant or unwholesome, this type of
personality measurement is the wholesomeness of one’s virtues, i.e., values, relationships with other,
adjustments to varying situations, behavior an motivations
a. emotional quotient (E.Q.)
b. intelligence quotient (I.Q.)
c. maladjustment personality
d. anticipated behavior
Correct answer: A
60. It is a measurement of personality which is the result by dividing the mental age by the chronological age.
a. emotional quotient (E.Q.)
b. intelligence quotient (I.Q.)
c. multiple Intelligence
d. forecasted behavior quotient
Correct answer: B
61. The teacher must be aware that both heredity and environment represent complex factors, exerting many
specific influences on an individual’s growth. Which of the following statements best represents the influence
of heredity and environment?
a. Heredity counts; environment is less important.
b. If the environment is changed, heredity becomes less important.
c. The relative influences of heredity and environment can vary widely in an individual’s growth.
d. In the long run, both tend to cancel each other’s influences
e. None of the above
Correct answer: C
62. The best possible way to measure the influence of heredity is by:
a. keeping the environment constant.
b. Ignoring the environment
c. Studying only fraternal o normal capability
d. Studying only identical twins of normal capability
e. Doing none of the above
f. Correct answer: D
63. Educators who contributed to the “open education” movement includes:
a. Neill and piaget c. Bruner and Silberman
b. Kohl and kozol d. All of the above
Correct answer: D
64. A child’s social skills can be measured by:
a. direct observation and parent-teacher conferences
b. psychological test
c. adaptive behavior scales
d. A and C above
Correct answer: D
65. A teacher uses behavioral modification techniques in his classes. Which of the following student behaviors
would he find most difficult to change?
a. Aggressive tendencies toward classmates
b. Poor habits in organizing work materials
c. Interrupting a speaker
d. Abandoning a project before it is finished
Correct answer: A
66. Learning-disabled children most characteristically have:
a. low IQ
b. poor socio-economic backgrounds
c. an average level of intelligence
d. minimal brain damage
Correct answer: C
67. Which of the following is true about educable mentally retarded children?
a. Their IQ range between 50 and 70
b. They have short attention spans and experience difficulty in generalizing
c. Their reading, writing, and arithmetic skills cannot be improved
d. A and B above
Correct answer: D
68. Which of the following is characteristics of a dyslexic child
a. Mirror writing
b. listlessness
c. Below-average intelligence
d. Hyperactivity
Correct answer: A
69. Primary reading retardation is presumed to be neurologically based, related to parietal lobe dysfunction?
a. Inability to relate sound to letter symbols
b. Inadequate auditory information processing
c. Left-right directional confusion
d. Speech aphasia
Correct answer: D
70. Students with secondary reading problems have capacity to read, but are non-readers because of:
a. auditory problems
b. congenital defects
c. visual-acuity impairment
d. environmental or emotional actors
Correct answer: D
71. If a teacher accepts Maslow’s theory on the hierarchy of needs, he or she will probably structure objectives
to:
a. meet both the physiological and intellectual needs of students
b. eliminate testing
c. eliminate extrinsic motivations
d. maintain a certain anxiety level for increased competition
Correct answer: A
72. The knowledge explosion has led to crowding more and more information into curriculum courses. A likely
result is that:
a. the textbook will no longer be the main instructional medium in many classes
b. the child may spend more time in school
c. the teacher may have to rely more on the se of multimedia materials
d. all of the above
Correct answer: D
73. During the learning process the teacher has most control over:
a. the learners
b. the learning environment
c. the learning process
d. the behavior of the learners
Correct answer: B
74. Which of the following conditions does NOT contribute to a climate psychologically suited to learning?
a. The teacher acts like a “real person.”
b. The teacher makes all of the decisions about students’ learning activities.
c. The teacher accepts students as they are
d. The teacher shows trust in students’ decisions
Correct answer: B
75. William Glasser advocates the frequent use of classroom meetings, with teacher and students sitting in a
small circle. Which one of the following types of discussion would NOT be appropriate in such a setting?
a. An educational-diagnostic conference on the learning weaknesses of individual students.
b. An open-ended meeting for the purpose of exploring and discussing student’s ideas about the curriculum
c. A social-problem-solving meeting to resolve teacher or student problems elating to the school, the class, or
any individual member.
d. A sensitivity-training meeting for the purpose of helping students ace their school-related problems and learn
how their actions can affect others
Correct answer: A
76. Which of the following does NOT represent a teacher’s contribution to the emotional environment of the
classroom?
a. A strident, compelling voice.
b. A sustained sense of expectation where student achievement is concerned
c. A well-written lesson plan
d. A sense of humor in a tense situation
Correct answer: C
77. According to Jones, student commitment to accomplishing a learning goal depends on all of the following
EXCEPT:
a. how interesting the goal is
b. how likely it seems that the goal can be accomplished
c. what degree of challenge the goal presents
d. whether the learner will be able to tell if the goal has been accomplished
e. whether materials are ready assembled for undertaking the goal
Correct answer: E
78. The teacher who understands the adolescent’s need to conform will:
a. use sarcasm as a disciplinary device
b. disregard unique responses in discussion and on examinationsB
c. establish a learning climate that fosters feelings of security
d. lecture students on their weakness o character
Correct answer: C
79. The best public relations agents for a school are the:
a. pupils c. PTA members
b. Teachers and pupils d. principals
Correct answer: B
80. The structured curriculum is in decided contrast to the child-centered curriculum, which:
a. emphasizes fundamental education
b. is changeable and is built around student interest and needs
c. is oriented to the needs of a democratic society.
d. Utilizes the theory of mental discipline
Correct answer: B
81. According to Bruner, teacher working with young children should
a. Push the children to maximum cognitive development as rapidly as possible
b. Present all information verbally so the children will listen well
c. Present new material from the concrete to the abstract
d. Present new information from the abstract to the concrete
Correct answer: C
82. from the educational viewpoint, intelligence is:
a. an abstract concept
b. a trait that can be manipulated
c. good judgment
d. a form of behavior
Correct answer: A
83. Every taxonomy of educational objectives:
a. describes increasingly difficult learning activities
b. describes levels of goals for learner development
c. suggest evaluation measure for teacher use
d. Classifies learning outcomes
Correct answer: B
84. A mathematics teacher following Gagne’s theory of learning believes that:
a. learning can take place under all conditions
b. learning is mainly a mater of accurate discrimination
c. learning takes place only when the student is in a receptive state
d. learning is reinforced chiefly by classical conditioning
Correct answer: C
85. Under which of the following conditions is a child’s IQ more likely to increase?
a. If the emotional climate in the classroom improves
b. If the child is given a large “research” project.
c. If the child enjoys problem solving and is given ample opportunity for it
d. If A and C are true
Correct answer: D
86. Intelligence is the basis of education. Education is the effective means for national development, hence, a
country spends a large portion of its budget for the systematic training of the learner to attain full development
Why is education one major concern of every c country? Because
a. intelligence has many facets
b. intelligence is useful in testing
c. intelligence is a safe gauge for budgetary allocation
d. intelligence test when carefully conducted, can help in determining need for future facilities for national
building
Correct answer: D
87. There are no two individuals who are the same. Individual differences, when early recognize and provided
for, enable the teacher to provide different motivations and approaches in guiding the learning process. Each
pupil differs physically, mentally, socially and emotionally from other children. Unless the teacher provides for
this nature of the learner, no amount of modern approaches in teaching can elicit favorable results.
a. The paragraph highlights the need or motivating learning
b. Individual differences is an important consideration in guiding the learner
c. The above paragraph focuses on teacher-pupil relationship
d. It takes about the nature of the learning process
Correct answer:B
88. Robert Craig, et al, wrote of the phase of steps in every learning process. These include: 1.) the focusing of
attention to the stimulation at hand, 2.) the interplay of the learner and the social factors that surround him, 3.)
the acquisition of a new response or behavior he gives to the new learning and 4.) Retention which presupposes
that the new learning is acquired.The above paragraph emphasizes
a. the learning process
b. the steps/phase of how individuals learn
c. the manifestations of learning
d. why learning is a difficult process
Correct answer: B
89. Approaches in teaching change from time to time depending on the traditional of sophistication attached to
the course being taught. Some mentors believe that the tie tested ways to teaching is effective. Other are easily
carried away to use modern approaches in imparting new subject matter. It maybe safe to conclude that once
results are realized in teaching, no specific method can be considered the one-and-only method to use. When
teaching a subject area, it is safe to
a. stick to the traditional way
b. be modern and most recent
c. get results in teaching
d. to try any method as they are all theories after all
Correct answer: C
90. In the early 1980’s programmed teaching became popular in helping teachers to provide for individual
differences in learners. The chunks of the subject matter which are divided into units are supposed to help the
learner master the lesson, since it is simply to understand the frame of the lessons. No test o mastery of the units
are done because the purpose is to provide information on certain subject matter Would you as a teacher use
programmed instruction if you handle a subject on Values Education?
a. yes, definitely
b. no, not important for the subject matter
c. I don’t know
d. Why not if the subject matter calls for it
Correct answer: B
91. The data/subject matter to teach are gathered in different ways, These include historical sources like
surveys, systematic observations, experimentation, interviews, etc. to be reliable and valid, the data collected
must be organized, properly analyzed and interpreted. From these processes, some conclusion or generalization
are done to reveal certain relationships like cause & effect. Data gathering involves:
a. tedious and serious study
b. easy does it
c. data gathered are tested and filed, then verified before being used
d. no follow-up needed
Correct answer: A
92. Heredity and environment play important roles in the function of human beings. DNA or Deoxyribonucleic
Acid is the biological (heredity) band of our genes. Our environment includes the house, school and the
community where we live. Whether we become successful or a failure will depend on the interplay of both
nature and nurture.If heredity and environment affect the individual, thus, we can conclude that
a. both actors play equal roes in one’s life
b. one factor, either heredity or environment exerts more influence than the other
c. neither factor is important
d. nurture and nature are the same
Correct answer: A
93. The first systematic philosopher to work in the field of education was
a. Socrates c. Plato
b. Aristotle d. Rousseau
Correct answer: C
94. The first state in the world’s history where all human capabilities were allowed to develop freely
a. Rome c. Sparta
b. Athens d. Germany
Correct answer: B
95. They are the most practical, pragmatic people who absorbed themselves in the management of their state
affairs
a. Spartans c. Romans
b. Athens d. Chinese
Correct answer: C
96. Invented the first system of writing in the orient
a. Phoenicians c. Greeks
b. Chinese d. Romans
Correct answer: B
97. first to introduce the use of printing press in the Philippines
a. Romans c. Greeks
b. Chinese d. Japanese
Correct answer: B
98. conducted the world’s first civil service test
a. Greeks c. Chinese
b. Romans d. English
Correct answer: C
99. To develop the capacity of man only for war was the educational aim of the ancient
a. Romans c. Athenians
b. Spartans d. Chinese
Correct answer: B
100. To produce a young man who would be charming in person and graceful in manner, e.g. a beautiful soul in
a beautiful body is the educational aim of education of the
a. Romans c. Spartans
b. Athens d. Italians
Correct answer: B