1.

In the study of child and adolescent development, how many fundamental

periods of development have emerged?
a. none; because of the complexity of human behavior it is too difficult to
know
b. two
c. five
d. six
2. Which of the following denotes a qualitative change?
a. Angela, who on the first six months of life doubles her weight.
b. Jona who increase her vocabulary words for about 300 in the past 3
months.
c. Ramon, who has advanced from babbling vowel and consonant sounds
to using words.
d. Clare, who grew 3 inches last year.
3. Development indicates _________
a. Cessation of activities
b. Start of life
c. ripening of behavior
d. none of these
4. It refers to the progressive series of changes of an orderly and coherent type
leading to the individuals maturation.
a. Learning
b. Development
c. Growth
d. Assimilation
5. Which Piagetian term refers to ones inability to distinguish between ones
own perspective and someone elses?
a. Autism
b. Conservation
c. Centration
d. Egocentrism
6. The term which essentially refers to quantitative changes in the individual as
he progresses in chronological age is
a. Learning
b. Development
c. Growth
d. Assimilation

7. The head to tail/toe direction in body development is

a. cephalocaudal trend
b. proximodistal trend
c. sequential trend

d. progressive trend
8. A child using his arms and chest for catching a ball before he could use his
arms and fingers demonstrates
a. cephalocaudal trend
b. proximodistal trend
c. sequential trend
d. progressive trend
9. Christine is wondering why at the age 13 she is not experiencing
menstruation yet while her underage classmate Virwa at the age 12
experiences menarche already. Which of the following principle is applied in
this situation?
a. Development rates vary
b. Development is continuous
c. Development is patterned
d. Development is predictable
10.All except one are principles of Development.
a. Development is a continuous process
b. The sequence of development is similar to all children
c. Maturation is independent from development
d. Certain reflexes present at birth anticipate involuntary movement
11.On what does the childs physical development depend?
a. Upon environment and heredity in almost equal portion
b. Primarily upon the influence limitation
c. Primarily by inheritance modified by the environment
d. Upon environment fashioned depending upon the individual
12.Which of the following principles of human growth refers to the situation that
girls mature earlier than boys?
a. Growth is patterned
b. Development rates vary
c. Each stage of development has characteristic traits
d. Maturation should precede certain type of learning

13.Maturation precedes learning. How is this applied in the classroom?

a. Follow the interest in assigning tasks
b. Topics should be taught from simple to complex
c. Give the same task to all students in a certain level
d. Consider the age of the students in teaching certain concepts
14.As the children grow, they develop a greater ability to coordinate and control
movement to manipulate
15.The basic needs in the hierarchy of needs must be met so that learning will
effectively take place. This expresses the theory of.

a. Rogers
b. Murray
c. Homey
d. Maslow
16.It refers to the quantitative changes in an individual as he progress in
chronological age
a. Development
b. Growth
c. Education
d. Maturation
17.Believes that childs cognitive development follows a well- defines sequence
of stage whereby they acquire structures and schemes that enable them to
deal with the world.
a. Jean Piaget
b. Sigmund Freud
c. Erik Erikson
d. Lawrence Kohlberg
18.If you believe that the childs mind in TABULA RASA, in what process will you
engage the child to learn?
a. Sensory impressions
b. Reasoning
c. Reflections
d. Metacognition
19.How a child talks or gestures which have been learned from models he has
been exposed to is an example of.
a. Insight Learning
b. Social Learning Theory
c. Instrumental Conceptualism
d. Programmed Learning
20.Stage when at the onset of puberty, feelings is directed toward other persons
of opposite sex.
a. Latency Stage
b. Genital
c. Anal Stage
d. Phallic Stage
21.The theory where in association between a conditioned stimulus is
strengthened by repeated presentation with the unconditional stimulus.
a. Connectionism theory
b. Classical Conditioning
c. Operant conditioning
d. Social Learning theory

22.A process of creating a new scheme after an individuals interaction with the
environment.
a. Equilibration
b. Accommodation
c. Assimilation
d. Maturation
23.A student has just learned a particular formula to make math problem solve.
She tries it with another problem and succeeds at it. So, this student is even
more encouraged to discover easier ways to solve math problems. Which of
Thorndikes law is depicted in the situation?
a. Readiness
b. Effect
c. Repetition
d. Practice
24.What law of learning when a review of the past lesson is conducted before
the discussion of the new lesson?
a. Law of exercise
b. Law of Effect
c. Law of Readiness
d. Law of Acceleration
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26.a
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