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PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
MIDTERM EXAMINATION
NAME:_________________________________________________ SCORE: _________________
STRAND & SECTION: _____________________________________ DATE: __________________
I. Identification: Write the correct answer on the blanks provided before each item:
_________________________1. It pertains to the inborn traits passed on by the generation of offspring
from both sides of the biological parents’ families.
_________________________2. A domain of human development which covers our capacity to learn, to
speak, to understand, to reason and to create.
_________________________3. A domain of human development which includes our social interaction
with other people, emotions, attitudes, self-identity, personality, beliefs & values.
_________________________4. It pertains to the world outside ourselves and the experience that
results from our contact and interaction with this external world.
_________________________5. According to ___, building character as much as intelligence, is what
education is all about.
_________________________6. This pertains to the scientific study of the strengths and virtues that
enable individuals and communities to thrive.
_________________________7. This is the period when a person enters adolescence wherein biological
changes and cognitive changes take place.
_________________________8. It refers to the essence of a person, his thoughts, feelings and actions,
experiences, beliefs, values, principles and relationships.
_________________________9. This pertains to set of behaviors, feelings, thoughts and motives that
identifies an individual. It is the essence of who we are and is the embodiment of one’s physical
psychological, cognitive, affective and spiritual self.
_________________________10. The physical attributes including the 5 physical senses (Aspect of
holistic development)
_________________________11. The attributes of a person’s consciousness and beliefs, including the
values and virtues that guide and put meaning into a person’s life. (Aspect of holistic development)
_________________________12. The manner by which an individual interacts with other individuals or
groups of individuals.
_________________________13. This refer to the system of beliefs that adheres to the highest ideas of
human existence. These ideas create meaning and purpose in a person’s life.
_________________________14. The manifestation or acting out the attitude an individual has.
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_________________________15. These are a person’s thoughts feelings, and emotions about another
person, object, ideas, behavior or situation.
II. Modified TRUE or FALSE (2points each)
- If the statement is correct, write TRUE on the blanks provided.
- If the statement is incorrect, underline the word/phrases which make the statement incorrect
then write the correct answer (replacement word) on the blanks provided.
_________________________1. In the ancient times, the act of drawing can be an attempt toward
creative expression and narration.
_________________________ 2. Carl Rogers proposed the hierarchy of needs.
_________________________3. Early adolescence takes place between ages 17 and 20.
_________________________4. For Chinese people, a superior man is superior not only to his peers and
followers, but also to himself most especially.
_________________________5. Sickness can change the consistency of an individual’s personality.
_________________________6. According to Socrates, the beginning of knowledge is self-knowledge.
_________________________7. Behaviors are person’s thoughts, feelings, and emotions about another
person, object, ideas, behavior or situation while attitudes are the manifestation or acting out of the
thoughts.
_________________________8. Your 13th birthday symbolizes your crossing over the developmental
stage of childhood to teenhood.
_________________________9. During the old age, the first onset of menstruation for the girls take
place.
_________________________10. During adolescence, beliefs about morality, religion, and politics are
starting to evolve.
III. Fill in the blanks with the correct answer:
1. E___________________ 2. I______________________ How an individual prefers to
channel his or her energy while
dealing with people.
3. S___________________ 4. N_____________________ How one prefers to process
information
5. T ___________________ 6. F_____________________ How an individual prefers to
make decisions
7. J ____________________ 8. P_____________________ How an individual prefers to
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manage one’s life
9._______________________ TYPE INDICATOR
10. O
11. C
12. E
13. A
14. N
15. ______________ MODEL
Erikson’s Stages of Psychosocial Development (2points each)
Stage Influential Figure Conflict or Crisis to Possible Posible results
be resolved results from from resolving
conflict conlict
(Favorable (Unfavorable
result) result)
Infancy 1. _____________ 2._____________ Able to trust 3._____________
others
4.______________ Parents 5.______________ Develops self- Compulsive or
control and self-restraint or
physical skills compliance
Sense of
independence
Play Age Parents and 6_______________ Develops Pessimism, fear
Teachers sense of of being wrongly
purpose judged
7. _____________ 8. ____________ 9. ______________ Learns how to Loss of hope and
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______________ cope with the sense of being
school mediocre
environment
and its
demands
10._____________ Teachers and 11. _____________ Develops a Feelings of
Significant others sense of self confusion,
and identity indecisiveness
Young Adulthood 12._____________ Intimacy vs. Isolation Develops a Impersonal, weak
strong need to relationship
form intimate
loving
relationship
with people or
another
person
Adulthood Community 13._______________ Creates or Self-concern, Self-
nurtures indulgence
things that will
outlast them,
ex. Having
children
Old age 14. ____________ 15._______________ Sense of Sense of loss or
fulfillment as contempt for
one look back others
in one’s life
Regrets,
and develops a
feeling of bitterness
wisdom
