FATHER SATURNINO URIOS UNIVERSITY

Accountancy Program

PRINCIPLES AND METHODS OF TEACHING ACCOUNTING

Preliminary Examination

Name: ______________________________ Section: ___________ Date: ____________ Score: _______

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS: Read each statement carefully. On the space before the number, write the letter
of your choice. No erasures allowed.

1. It is the process of experience and discovery lead to 9. This behaviorist suggested that use of rewards could
a new understanding of the world and ourselves, and alter one’s behavior.
enable us to apply the acquired knowledge in new a. BF Skinner c. Edward Thorndike
situations. b. JB Watson d. Köhler
a. Teaching c. Experiencing
b. Learning d. Discovering 10. Lyndon, a college instructor handling Financial
Accounting and Reporting and Intermediate
2. According to him, learning can be described as a Accounting subjects, gives a bonus points to those
relatively permanent change in the behavior of an who are always early in the class, and those who got
individual. perfect attendance every month. This is an example
a. Wertheimer c. Wakefield of:
b. Jean Piaget d. BF Skinner a. Classical Conditioning c. Technical Conditioning
b. Operant Conditioning d. Persona Conditioning
3. Bruning, Schraw and Ronning (1995:96) classified
knowledge into three categories. Our awareness of 11. The students of Joey, a college teacher who handles
the extent of our capacity when studying accounting Managerial Economics and Basic Accounting
is an example of: subjects, were frightened upon seeing him bringing
a. Declarative knowledge a bulky sheets of paper. This is an example of:
b. Procedural knowledge a. Classical Conditioning c. Technical Conditioning
c. Metacognitive knowledge b. Operant Conditioning d. Persona Conditioning
d. Domain knowledge
12. A student is seated in a table in Tangelder Library.
4. In preparing a bank reconciliation statement and He has books all over the table, while silently
proof of cash using the adjusted balance method, reading. A few minutes have passed a librarian
debit memos from the bank are deducted from the approached him and asked, “Are you and
book balance, while deposits in transits are added to Accountancy student?”. What law of organization
the bank balance. This is an example of: applies?
a. Declarative knowledge a. Proximity c. Closure
b. Procedural knowledge b. Similarity d. Simplicity
c. Metacognitive knowledge
d. Domain knowledge 13. A man in a black soutane wearing a necklace with a
crucifix pendant passed by the corridor. Strangers
5. Partnership is an agreement between two or more greeted him and say, “Good morning Father”. What
persons to contribute money, property or industry to law of organization applies?
a common fund with the intention of dividing the a. Proximity c. Closure
profits among themselves. This is an example of: b. Similarity d. Simplicity
a. Declarative knowledge a.
b. Procedural knowledge
c. Metacognitive knowledge
d. Domain knowledge

6. In an oral recitation in one of the classes of Atty. A,

his students usually recite and explain using the
English language even without being told to do so.
This fluency and skills in English language as
manifested by the students is an example of:
a. Declarative knowledge
b. Procedural knowledge
c. Metacognitive knowledge
d. Domain knowledge

7. In this theory, learning is nothing more than the

acquisition of new behavior based on environmental
conditions.
a. Behaviorism c. Gestalt
b. Cognitivism d. Constructivism

8. This behaviorist concluded that a stimulus naturally

affects the response of an animal or a person.
a. BF Skinner c. Edward Thorndike
b. JB Watson d. Köhler