1. Which of the following is true about human development? d.

d. Anal stage, oral stage, genital stage, latency stage, phallic stage
a. Human development considers both maturation and learning. Answer: A
b. Development refers to the progressive series of changes of an
orderly coherent type toward the goal of maturity. 5. What is the best description of Erickson's psychosocial theory of
c. Development is the gradual and orderly unfolding of the human development?
characteristics of the individuals as they go through the successive a. Eight crises all people are thought to lace
stages of growth. b. Four psychosocial stages in latency period
d. All of the above c. The same number of stages as Freud's, but with different names
Answer: D d. A stage theory that is not psychoanalytic
Answer: A
2. What do you call the quantitative increase in terms of height and
weight as observed by the school physician during the 6. In Erickson's theory, what is the unresolved crisis of an adult who
physical examination of the students? has difficulty establishing a secure, mutual relationship with a life
a. Development partner?
b. Growth a. Initiative vs. Guilt
c. Learning b. Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt
d. Maturation c. Intimacy vs. Isolation
Answer: B d. Trust vs. Mistrust
Answer: C
3. Mrs. Gomez conducts research on the psychosocial domain of
development. In what particular area of the child's development is 7. Alyssa is eight years old, and although she understands some
Mrs. Gomez most likely to be interested with? logical principles, she still has troubles in understanding hypothetical
a. Perceptual abilities concepts. According to Piaget, Alyssa belongs to what particular
b. Brain-wave patterns stage of cognitive development?
c. Emotions a. Sensorimotor
d. Use of language b. Preoperational
Answer: C c. Concrete operational
d. Formal operational
4. Which of the following is the correct order of psychosexual stages Answer: C
proposed by Sigmund Freud?
a. Oral stage, anal stage, phallic stage, latency stage, genital stage
b. Anal stage, oral stage, phallic stage, latency stage, genital stage
c. Oral stage, anal stage, genital stage, latency stage, phallic stage
8. Which of the following provides the best broad description of the d. Experiencing the crisis of trust vs. mistrust
relationship between heredity and environment in determining Answer: C
height?
a. Heredity is the primary influence, with environment affecting 12. What is Freud's idea about a young boy's guilt feelings brought
development only in severe situations. about by jealousy of his father's relationship with his mother?
b. Heredity and environment contribute equally to development a. Electra complex
c. Environment is the major influence on physical characteristics. b. Oedipus complex
d. Heredity directs the individual's potential and environment c. Phallic complex
determines whether and to what degree the individual reaches the d. Penis envy complex
potential. Answer: B
Answer: A
13. When a little girl who says she wants her mother to go on
9. What is the correct sequence of prenatal stages of development? vacation so that she can marry her father, Freud believes that he is
a. Embryo, germinal, fetus voicing a fantasy consistent with?
b. Germinal, fetus, embryo a. Oedipus complex
c. Germinal, embryo, fetus b. Electra complex
d. Embryo, fetus, germinal c. Theory of mind
Answer: C d. Crisis of initiative vs. Guilt
Answer: B
10. When a baby realized that a rubber duck which has fallen out of
the tub must be somewhere on the floor, he is likely to achieved what 14. Which of the following can best describe the preschooler's
aspect of cognitive development? readiness to learn new task and play activities?
a. Object permanence a. Emerging competency and self-awareness
b. Deferred imitation b. Theory of the Mind
c. Mental combinations c. Relationship with parents
d. Goal-directed behavior d. Growing identification with others
Answer: A Answer: A

11. Which of the following will be Freud's description of the child's 15. James noted that when the preschoolers eagerly begin many
behavior if he he has biting, sarcastic manner? new activities but are vulnerable to criticism and feelings of failure,
a. Anally expulsive they are experiencing what particular crisis?
b. Anally retentive a. Identity vs. Role Confusion
c. Fixated in the oral stage b. Initiative vs. Guilt
c. Basic trust vs. mistrust down by society is at which level of moral reasoning?
d. Efficacy vs. Helplessness a. Pre-conventional Stage One
Answer: B b. Pre-conventional Stage Two
c. Conventional
16. What stage of Piaget's Cognitive Development does a person d. Post-conventional
belong to when he can understand specific logical ideas and apply Answer: C
them to concrete problems?
a. Preoperational thought 20. Ana, who is low-achieving, shy and withdrawn, is rejected by
b. Operational thought most of her peers. her teacher wants to help Ana increase her self-
c. Create operational thought esteem and social acceptance. What can Joy's teacher suggest to
d. Formal operational thought her parents?
Answer: C a. Transfer her to a different school
b. Help their daughter improve her motor skills
17. What is the best explanation of Piaget's concrete operational c. Help their daughter learn to accept more responsibility for her
thought to describe the school-age child's mental ability? academic failures
a. A child can reason logically about things and events he or she d. Help their daughter improve her skills in relating to peers
perceives. Answer: D
b. A child's ability to think about how he thinks
c. Can understand that certain characteristics of an object remain the 21. What is the most accurate definition of puberty stage?
same when other characteristics are changed a. Rapid physical growth that occurs during adolescence
d. Can understand that moral principles may supersede the b. Stage when sexual maturation is attained.
standards of society. c. Rapid physical growth and sexual maturation that ends childhood
Answer: C d. Stage when adolescents establish identifies separate from their
parents.
18. Elisa who is in between 9 and 11 years of age are most likely to Answer: C
demonstrate moral reasoning at which Kohlberg's stage?
a. Pre-conventional 22. Fifteen year old Marie is preoccupied with her "disgusting
b. Conventional appearance" and seems depressed most of the time. What is the
c. Post-conventional best thing her parents can do to help her get through this difficult
d. None of the above time?
Answer: B a. Ignore her self-preoccupation because their attention would only
reinforce it.
19. According to Kohlberg, a dutiful citizen who obeys the laws set b. Encourage to "shape up" and not give in the self-pity
c. Kid her about her appearance in the hope that she will see how
silly she is acting.
d. Offer practical advice, such as clothing suggestions, to improve 2. According to Jerome Bruner, learning is a simultaneous process of
her body image. acquisition, transformation and_______________.
Answer: D A. Evaluation

23. What can be the best comparison of the behavior of a 17 B. Question

year old girl to that of her 13 year old brother?
a. She is more likely critical about herself
b. She tends to be more egocentric. 3. Who among the following developed the Social Learning Theory?
c. She had less confidence in her abilities.
d. She is more capable of reasoning hypothetically. A. Bandura
Answer: D
B. Kohlberg

24. According to Erikson, what is the primary task of adolescent?

a. To establish trust
b. To search for his identity 4. When a teacher present a morally ambiguous situation to his
c. To be more intimate with others students and ask them what to do, the teacher’s technique is based
d. To establish integrity on the theory of?
Answer: B A. Kohlberg

25. What is the main source of emotional support for most young B. Piaget
people who are establishing independence from their parents?
a. Older adolescents of the opposite sex
b. Older sibling 5. According to Maslow, the highest of the need in the Hierarchy of
c. Teachers Needs theory is
d. Peer groups
Answer: D A. Psychological need

According to Erikson, identity and role confusion occurs during B. Self actualization

A. Elementary Years

B. High school years

6. Based on Freud’s theory, which operates when a person is in the was abused and neglected. What could have caused the student’s
height of anger? reading disability?

A. Ego A. Emotional Factors

B. Id B. Poor teaching

7. Operant conditioning can be applied to classroom by 11. A child was punished for cheating in an exam. For sure the child
wont cheat again in short span of time, but this does not guarantee
A. Using reinforcement that the child won’t cheat ever again Based on Thorndike’s theory on
B. Using manipulative devices punishment and learning, this shows that ____________.

A. Punishment strengthens a response

8. “Women should not study since they will be marrying soon”. If a
father tells his daughter this, can we consider his premise morally
right?
A. Depends on the family social status
B. No, there is gender equality in education
B. Punishment weakens a response
12. Laughing at a two-year-old child who uttered a bad word is not a
proper thing to do because in this stage of the child’s, the child
is_______________.

A. Considering the views of others

9. In Piaget’s concrete operational stage, teacher Maritel should B. Distinguishing right from wrong
provide_______________.

A. Activities of hypothesis formulation 13. According to Sigmund Freud, the main proponent of
B. Learning activities that involve problems of classification and order Psychoanalytic Theory, the superego is mainly concerned with

A. The idea of right and wrong

10. A student is finding it hard to read. When the guidance counselor B. The development of healthy psyche
traced the child’s history, the counselor was able to find out that the
student came from a dysfunctional family, aside from that, the child
14. Modeling is a teaching rooted on______________________
learning theory.
18. The best example of Operant Conditioning among the following
A. Bandura is

B. Skinner A. Using reinforcement

B. Using manipulative devices

15. Teacher Marissa would like to employ Operant Conditioning on

her students to increase the probabilities of greater participation
during discussion. It is highly possible that teacher Marissa will
A. Put more emphasis on sharing and consistently guide them to
new ideas
B. Give a star token to those who will participate
19. A child receives a STAR STAMP after correctly completing his
task. The child always tries to complete all tasks correctly for him to
have a stamp once again. What is being shown in the situation?
A. Operant Conditioning
B. Classical conditioning

16. One of the traits of many students is putting more emphasis on

“porma” over substance. This is likely to be shown when 20. A child submitted a poor written report but packaged with brightly
colored paper cover. This showcases__________________.
A. A written report was submitted by a student with shabby cover but
comprehensive content A. Art over academics

B. A written report was submitted by a student using “perfumed” B. “porma” over substance
stationary but poor content

21. He is considered as the first special education student.

17. Providing variety of learning activities to students is a A. Victor of Aveyron
characteristic of a teacher who understand the principle of
B. Tarzan of the Jungle
A. Facilitating learning with emphasis on individual differences

B. Allowing the student to be exposed to various teaching techniques

22. The Father of modern psychology
A. Sigmund Freud penchants, tendencies, abilities, vacations, and race of his
ancestors”
B. Aristotle
A. Bandura

B. Watson
23. He is postulated that man psyche is composed of animus and the
anima

A. Karen Horney 27. His best contribution to the world of education is the 3 laws (law
of effect, law or readiness and law of exercise)
B. Carl Jung
A. Thorndike

B. Pavlov
24. He pioneered in NON-Directive Counseling?

A. Carl Rogers
28. The teachers’ widely accepted view of giving rewards to students
B. Erik Erikson is the legacy of

A. Dewey
25. This educator proposed 3 modes of representation,enactive, B. Skinner
iconic and symbolic

A. Bandura
29. He believes that learning is based on Adhesive principle
B. Bruner
A. Dewey C. Kounin

B. Bruner D. Koffka
26. This premier behaviorist once said: Give me a dozen healthy
infants, well-formed and my own specified world to bring them up in
and I’ll guarantee to take any one of random and train him to become
any type of specialist I might select – doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant- 30. One of main proponent of Gestalt and who believes that the
chief and, yes even beggar-man and chief, regardless of his talents, whole is more than the sum of all its parts

A. Wertheimer
B. Thorndike 35. This particular theorist believes that the mind is blank at birth

A. Locke

31. “the child learns from what he sees in the environment” is the B. Skinner
main thesis of this famous educational psychologist

A. Bandura
36. He is generally considered as the father of modern education
B. Locke
A. Collin

B. Comenius
32. According to this theorist, our behavior at a particular time is a
product of the interaction of two factors, internal and external forces

A. Lewin 37. Kindergarten movement is the legacy of this man who is

considered the father of kindergarten
B. Wertheimer
A. Pestalozzi

B. Froebel
33. According to this developmental psychologist, children’s thinking
skills move from simplicity to complexity

A. Piaget 38. He once said: “education is not a preparation for life…it is life”

B. Thorndike A. Montessori

B. Dewey

34. The inventor of the first usable intelligence test

A. Freud 39. He proposed that every child is born with a unique potential, his
individuality, but that potential remained unfulfilled until it was
B. Binet analyzed and transformed by education

C. Herbart
B. Kohler 44. He introduced the notion of zone of proximal development and
“scaffolding”

A. Vygotsky
40. He pioneered in coming up with a list of development task as
individuals pass through the developmental stages B. Tyler

A. Havigburst

B. Hurlock 45. This condition is also known as trisomy 21

B. Down Syndrome

41. This educator is famous for applying classical education to B. Patau Syndrome
impoverished children of Chicago Illinois.

A. Collins
46. This condition is characterized by poor spelling and pervasive
B. Montessori difficulty in reading

A. Mental retardation

42. This educator opposes the traditional notion that students are D. dyslexia
empty vessels. He call this traditional technique as banking system

A. Freire
47. Certain injury to the language area of the brain can cause the
B.Locke total loss of the ability to produce and/ or understand language, this
condition is known as

A. Mutism
43. He pioneered in the study of language acquisition of children
B. Aphasia
A. Chomsky

B. Freire
48. ___________is a disorder of neural development characterized
by impaired social interaction and communication and by restricted
and repetitive behavior.
A. Mental retardation

B. Autism

49. ________ refers to quantitative changes in an individual as he

progresses in chronological age.

A. Development

B. Growth

50. ________ refers to progressive series of changes of an orderly

coherent type leading to the individual’s maturation.

A. Development

B. Growth