PART 1 PRACTICE TEST FOR PROFESSIONAL

EDUCATION CHILD & ADOLESCENT

DEVELOPMENT
1. The process by which certain potentials are inherited
from the parents for his development
a. Life
b. Birth
c. Heredity
d. Character
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
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
b. Adolescence
c. Early adulthood
d. Stage V

8. He is known as the Father of Modern I.Q. Test

a. Lewis Terman
b. Erick Erickson
c. Laurence Kohlberg
d. Martin Lesley
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 of facts and information
d. assumes that human activities are based on stimulus
and response
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
childrens 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 childs intellectual

4. Modifying an existing scheme after an individuals

interaction with the environment, resulting in the creation
of a new scheme.

development

a. Assimilation

a. Learning

b. Interaction

b. Response

c. Recognition

c. Change

d. Accommodation

d. Development

5. Theory stating that a persons behavior can be

motivated by urges towards self satisfaction.

12. Which of the following principles IS NOT considered

under Classical Conditioning by Ivan

a. Psychoanalytic Theory

Pavlov?

b. Cognitive development theory

a. Excitation

c. Psychosocial Theory

b. Adhesive Principle

d. Moral development theory

c. Stimulus Generalization

6. The ability of a child to conceptualize the retention and

preservation of the same quantity under various changes.

d. None of the above

11. Any change in the behavior of an individual

a. Recognition

13. The reinforcement of a persons responses by

presentation or removal of rewards and punishment.

b. Reversibility

a. Operant conditioning

c. Assimilation

b. Transfer of learning

d. Conservation

c. Feedback Principle

7. Refers to the idea that no individual are exactly the

same or alike.

d. Discipline

a. Cognitive theory
b. Exclusivity theory
c. Individual differences
d. Emotional quotient

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
b. Assimilation

c. Response
d. Motivation
15. The process by which an individual acquires the social
and cultural heritage of the society where he belongs.

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

a. Socialization
c. Academic freedom
b. Internalization
d. Voluntary accreditation
c. Integration
d. Acquisition
16. What is the main function of the philosophies of
education?
a. To aid the leaner to build his/her own personal
philosophy.

21. The period of physical, especially sexual, and mental

maturation which is characterized by rapid somatic
growth is known as
a. infancy
b. early childhood
c. puberty

b. Define goals and set directions from which educational

efforts should be exerted.
c. Provide guidelines in the foundation of educational
policies and programs.

d. adulthood
22. Claustrophobia is an irrational fear of
a. darkness

d. Provide norms and standards for evaluation purposes.

b. strangers
17. According to Froebel, kindergarten is also known as
____________?

c. closed space

a. A place where children have fun and enjoyment

d. height

b. Garden where children could grow and develop

23. An eye defect characterized by clear vision in one

dimension but unfocused vision on the other is called

c. The learning center for Life

a. myopia
d. A place where new beginnings begin
b. astigmatism
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. hyperopia
d. presbyopia
24. Which of the following statements does not apply to
adolescents?
a. they desire the approval of their peers

c. Build a man who is distinctly civilized, educated and

refined

b. they seek dependence on their parents

d. Develop man into a thinking individual

c. they have a marked sex development

19. A teacher who advocates the pragmatic philosophy of

education believes that experience should follow learning,
thus, she has to?

d. none of the above

a. require her student mastery of the lessons

25.As young people mature, society expects them to

develop competencies and assume social roles in a
conventional manner.

b. encourage her students to memorize facts

a. expectation of parents

c. equip her students with basic skills and abilities

b. influence of peers groups

d. provide her student with opportunities to apply their

skills and abilities

c. influence of formal education

d. cultural demands