Republic of the Philippines

SULTAN KUDARAT STATE UNIVERSITY

Tacurong Campus, Tacurong City, Sultan Kudarat
S.Y. 2019-2020

Nature of Examination : Midterm Examination

Course No. : GE 708
Descriptive Title : Understanding the Self
Number of Units : Three (3)

Name: _______________________________ Course, Year& Section: ________ Date: ________ Score: _______

General Instruction : Carefully read the instructions given at each type of examination, you may use blue
pen only. You have one (1) hour to finish the examination.

Test I. MULTIPLE CHOICE: Choose the alternatives that best completes the statement or answers the question. Encircle
the letter of the correct answer.

1. The first step in understanding others is to begin by getting an understanding of

a. Basic Human Behavior

b. Yourself
c. Psychology

2. For him, all individuals have an imperfect impermanent aspect

a. Plato
b. Socrates
c. Augustine

3. He believed that one can know only comes from the senses and experience

a. Aquinas
b. Descartes
c. Hume

4. He considered that man is composed of two parts: matter and form.

a. Aquinas
b. Kant
c. Ryle

5. He agreed that man is bifurcated nature.

a. Plato
b. Augustine
c. Merleau-Ponty

6. For him, there is necessarily a mind that organizes the impressions that men get from the external world.

a. Kant
b. Ryle
c. Merleau-Ponty

7. He believed that what truly matters is the behavior that a person manifests in his day-to-day life.

a. Kant
b. Ryle
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 c. Merleau-Ponty

8. He simply believed that the mind and body cannot be separated from one another.

a. Kant
b. Ryle
c. Merleau-Ponty

9. He viewed that body is nothing else but a machine that is attached to the mind.

a. Aquinas
b. Descartes
c. Hume

10. According to Stevens, the following are the characteristic of self except:

a. Separate
b. Public
c. Independent

11. Characteristic of self which means that itself it can exist.

a. Unitary
b. Consistent
c. Self-contained

12. Characteristic of the self which suggest that self is isolated from the external world

a. Private
b. Independent
c. Public

13. This characteristic of self also means that a particular self’s traits, characteristics, tendencies and potentials are more or
less the same

a. Self-contained
b. Private
c. Consistent

14. According to Mauss, this refers to a person’s sense of who he is , his body, and his basic identity, his biological
givenness

a. Personne
b. Moi
c. Both

15. For Mauss, it is a person’s basic identity.

a. Personne
b. Moi
c. Both

16. It is composed of personal characteristics, social roles, and responsibilities as affiliations.

a. Self-concept
b. Self-identity
c. Social interaction

17. It is what comes to the mind when you are asked about who you are.
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 a. Self-concept
b. Self-identity
c. Social interaction

18. It can be seen as a code of ethical conduct, of how one should properly act according to their relationship with other
people.

a. Confucianism
b. Taoism
c. Buddhism

19. It rejects the hierarchy and strictness brought by Confucianism and would prefer a simple lifestyle and its teachings thus
aim to describe how to attain that life.

a. Confucianism
b. Taoism
c. Buddhism

20. It seen self as an illusion, born out of ignorance, of trying to hold and control things, or human centered needs; thus, the
self is also source of all these sufferings.

a. Confucianism
b. Taoism
c. Buddhism

TEST II. TRUE OR FALSE: Write TRUE if the statement is correct and write FALSE If the statement is incorrect, write
the correct answer on the space provided before the number. One (1) point each. (10 marks)

______________________21. The self is unique and has its own identity

______________________2 2. For Mead and Vygotsky, the way that we process information is normally a form of an internal
dialogue in our head.
______________________ 23. Family has nothing to do with one self.

______________________ 24. Taoism believed that the self is a part of universe.

______________________ 25. Gender cannot be considered as important aspect of the self.

______________________ 26. In Buddhism, the self believes to be the source of all sufferings.

______________________ 27. In Confucianism, the identity and self-concept of the individuals

is interwoven.
______________________ 28. All individual accepted their innate sexual characteristics.

______________________2 9. It is impossible to have heterosexual and homo sexual activity simultaneously.

______________________ 30. Adolescents need to control their sexual response in order to prevent premarital
sex.

Test III. Essay. Answer in brief and concise manner. Write legibly. 15 marks

1. Differentiate Eastern from Western Thoughts. 5 points

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 2. As a student, what program can you propose in school that will raise the awareness and help eliminate or lessen the
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3. What is your concept of self? 5 pts.

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GOOD LUCK!

Prepared by: Noted :

ANNA ROSE T. MARCELINO, MPA JUDITH V. ASTURIAS, JD., LLB

Faculty Dept. Chairman- Political Science

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