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COLLEGE OF ARTS, SCIENCES AND EDUCATION

Academic Year 2020-2021

MIDTERM EXAMINATION: CHILD AND ADOLESCENT LEARNERS AND LEARNING PRINCIPLES

NAME: __________________________________ DATE: __________

CLASS SCHED. ______________ SCORE: _________

TEST I: Select from the given choices the term that best completes the sentence or answers the question.

1. The term used by Piaget to imply changing the cognitive structure to fit a person’s new experience is
________________.

A. accommodation B. Assimilation C. assistance D. equilibrium

2. In teaching the pre-operational child, which sequence of instructional materials should be followed by
the teacher?

A. concrete, semi-concrete, semi-abstract, abstract

B. semi-concrete, concrete, semi-abstract, abstract

C. concrete- semi-concrete, abstract, semi-abstract

D. semi-abstract, abstract, concrete, semi-concrete

3. Based on Piaget’s theory, what should a teacher provide in the formal operational stage?

A. games and other physical activities to develop motor skills

B. learning activities that involve problems of classification and ordering

C. stimulating environment with ample objects to play with

D. activities for hypothesis formulation

4. Which of the situations below illustrates a child’s actual potential?

A. He can solve problems on his own.

B. He can count through the teacher’s cueing.

C. He can listen to a lecture intently.

D. He can hear different sounds around.

5. Which parental support is effective in enhancing mental development among children?

A. exposing them to situations that stimulate curiosity

B. supplying them with expensive toys they can play with

C. creating a happy environment that inspires them

D. integrating play in all home and farm activities

6. Which of the following is the correct form of assisted learning as conceived by Vygotsky?

A. provide help in the beginning, then gradually withdraw

B. let students work alone, then give advice when they ask

C. have students explain their answer, then give a score

D. inspire the children to try first, then hold gradually

7. Roy gets jealous whenever dad brought home chocolates for mom. Based on Freud’s theory of
psychosexual development, what feeling is overcoming Roy and what stage is this?

A. Puberty: Latency B. Electra complex: Phallic

C. Elektra complex: Genital D. Oedipus Complex: Phallic

8. Which is true of Sigmund Freud Statement: The mind is like an iceberg; it floats with one-seventh of its
bulk above the water.”?

A. Our decisions are conscience-driven and merely societal.

B. He is referring to the importance of unconscious mind directing human behaviour, that the great deal
of human behaviour is controlled by the unconscious- much more than the behaviour controlled by
conscious thoughts.

C. The iceberg metaphor shows how hypocrisy overcome the deep feeling such as frustration, grief and
depression.

D. We are not totally controlling our thoughts sank deep in the unconscious mind. Only society-driven
thoughts are expressed and displayed.

9. Which statement is true about a person who develops a sensory maladjustment tendency, an extreme
in the first stage of psychosocial development: trust vs. mistrust?

A. S/he views the world overly positive and the all the people in it harmless.

B. S/he views the world with awe and disasters are mere wishy washy deprivation.

C. S/he has a strong belief that things will be well in the end, that the end of the rainbow is a silver lining.

D. All of these

10. In this stage of Erikson’s theory, a person startes to engage in mate-finding. The blossom stage of
Erikson when one is engage in a relationship (friend, neighbourhood, lovers) and starts to build an intimate
knit. Others are afraid of commitment so that they fail to attain a certain degree of intimacy.

A. Intimacy vs. role confusion B. Intimacy vs. Isolation

C. Industry vs. Inferiority D. Intimacy vs. guilt

11. Rico Chan strives to get a perfect score in his consecutive exams because his dada will scold him if he
fails to do so. What level of moral development is the reasoning of Rico?

A. Conventional B. Preconventional C. Punishment/obedience orientation D. Post-conventional

12. Jinky lets Hannah copy during their math test because Hannah agreed to let her copy during their
Sibika test. What stage of moral development is this?

A. Mutual benefit B. Social approval C. Preconventional D. Post-conventional

13. This includes siblings, parents, guardians and all the people to whom a child directly interacts with.

A. Mesosystem B. Macrosystem C. Chronosystem D. Microsystem

14. Which component/s of personality operates when a child wants to eat an ice cream, so that he pushed
his dad to go out amidst the strong rain and a dark road?

A. Id B. Id and Ego C. Ego D. Super ego

15. ______________is the balance between assimilation and accommodation.

A. equilibrium B. disequilibrium C. horizontal decolage D. adaptation

16. Preoperational children exhibit the following tendencies, EXCEPT

A. egocentrism B. irreversibility C. propositional thought D. perceptual centration

17. Object permanence refers to the idea that __________________.

A. objects we see continue to exist even when we aren’t talking about them

B. the substance of an object remains constant even when the form of the object changes

C. objects permanently exist in one location

D. objects continue to exist even when we don’t see them

18. Kendra goes home early, does the household chores, and studies her lesson before going to bed. These
are the family rules that she adhered. What stage of moral reasoning is being manifested?

A. Law and order B. Mutual benefit C. Punishment/obedience D. Universal principles

19. Teachers background checked pupils through the parents, about their behaviour at home, and how
they are brought up. The link between the parents and teachers is what layer of Brofenbrenner’s
Ecological model?

A. microsystem B. chronosystem C. mesosystem D. macrosystem

20. Smoking, drinking and overeating can be traced back to extremes and dissatisfaction in the first stage
of psychosexual development (oral stage). What do we call this fixation?

TEST II: Tell whether the statements depict practices supportive of cognitive development according to the
sociocultural theory of Vygotsky. Write S (supportive) if the stated action supports cognitive development.
NS if not supportive. Write your answer on the space provided before each number.

____1. Father models his son how to saw wood.

____2. Mr. Reyes permits the learners to use trial and error to solve a difficult task.

____3. Mr. Cruz requests Jie’s parents to tutor their son.

____4. Kenneth seeks the help of his friend, Marion, the Math wizard, to teach him to divide.

____5. Ann asks why mom has to peel the carrot; her mom has no time to explain.

____6. After one example of adding binomial, Mr. Andres gives board exercises.

____7. Instead of confiscating cell phones, Mr. Cruz uses them to test spelling among learners.

____8. Expensive toys mother bought are just for display, not for her child’s play.

____9. Miss Milad groups the class by two’s, with members critiquing each other’s work.

____10. Mr. Rivad relies on peer tutors in enhancing poor learner’s achievement.
TEST III:

Direction: Explain the illustration using

Piagetian’s Conservation principle (10 points)

B. Make your own model of the Components of Personality (10 points)