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Professional Education Part 2
Choose the letter of the best answer in each questions.

1. What does “Developmentally Appropriate Practice type of schooling focus on?

I. Typical development patterns of children

II. Uniqueness of each child

III. Direct Instructions

a. I & III

b. I & II

c. II & III

d. II only

answer: b

2. For Freud, the primary motivation for human behaviour is s*xual in nature while for Erikson, it is _________ in nature.

a. social

b. physical

c. cultural

d. biological

answer: a

3. The teacher’s role in the classroom according to cognitive psychologist is to __________.

a. fill the minds of the learner with information

b. make the learning task easy for the student

c. help the learner connect what he knows with the new information learned

d. dictate upon the learner what he should learn and know

answer: c

4. Researches conducted show that the teacher’s expectancies of students often become self-fulfilling prophecies. This phenomenon is called ____________.

a. Halo effect

b. Hawthorne effect

c. Ripple effect

d. Pygmalion effect

answer: d

5. Which of the following is NOT synonymous to performance objective?

a. Teachers objectives

b. Learners objectives

c. Instructional objectives

d. Behavioural objectives

answer: b

6. Individual differences, when recognize early, will enable the teacher to provide different motivations and approaches in guiding the learning process. Each learner differs physically mentally, socially and emotionally. Unless the teacher provide for these differences, no amount of modern approaches in teaching can produce favourable results. This paragraph emphasizes that ______________.

a. there is a need for motivating learning

b. Individual difference is an important factor in guiding the learner

c. focus should be on teacher-learner relationship

d. it’s the nature of learning process

answer: b

7. The cognitive process refers to the realization that even if things change in physical appearance, certain attributes are constant. This is ____________.

a. reservation

b. construction

c. integration

d. conservation

answer: c

8. The level of mental maturity needed for a pupil to maximize learning opportunities can be determined ________.

a. upon reaching the age of seven

b. approximately at age five

c. at a level that varies from task to task

d. by administering readiness test

answer: a

9. Stage where children consider parents and teachers as authorities and models.

a. period of morality by constraint

b. post-conventional morality

c. mental age

d. metacognition

answer: a

10. The human evocative approach and the 4 A’s end with __________.

a. generalization

b. analysis

c. application

d. adaption

answer: c

11. The process by which certain potentials are inherited from the parents for his development.

a. Life

b. Birth

c. Heredity

d. Character

answer: c

12. The theory states that there are 8 basic developmental stages that the individual has pass through his life.

a. Learning theory

b. Psychoanalytic theory

c. Psychosocial theory

d. Cognitive Development Theory

answer: c

13. Transition age from childhood to adulthood where rapid physical changes and s*x maturity occur resulting in changes in ways of feelings, thinking and acting.

a. Puberty

b. Adolescence

c. Early childhood

d. Latency period

answer: b

14. Modifying an existing scheme after an individual’s interaction with the environment, result in the creation of new scheme.

a. Accommodation

b. Assimilation

c. Interaction

d. Modification

answer: a

15. Theory stating that a person’s behaviour can be motivated by urges towards self satisfaction.

a. Psychoanalytic Theory

b. Association Theory

c. Psychosocial Theory

d. Morality Theory

answer: a

16. The ability of a child to conceptualize the retention and preservation of the same quantity under various changes.

a. Recognition

b. Conservation

c. Reversibility

d. Assimilation

answer: b

17. Refers to the idea that no individual are exactly the same or alike.

a. Cognitive Theory

b. Exclusive theory

c. Individual Differences

d. Appreciative Learning

answer: c

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

a. Lewis Terman

b. Erik Erikson

c. Laurence Kohlberg

d. Martin Lesley

answer: a

19. “Intellectual Appreciative Experiences” is ______________.

a. based 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. the assumption that human activities are based on stimulus and response.

answer: a

20. This statement implies that children at the early learning stage, considered parents and teachers as authorities and models.

a. Parents and teachers should always coordinate children’s 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 child’s intellectual development.

answer: c

General Education Part 1
1. Professional marketing consultants know their products thoroughly and ______.

a. study market trends

b. they analyze market trends

c. analyze market trends

d. realize better market trends

Answer: c

2. Approximately 5 years of intensive language study are required for second language learners. Park Myung-il _____ French for three and a half years but he will need more training to be more proficient.

a. will be studying

b. has been studying

c. has studied

d. will have been studying

Answer: b

3. Don Agapito del Villar is an absolute ruler who serves his country well and thinks well about the welfare of his people. He, then, can sometimes he called as _____.

a. belligerent dictator

b. blatant dictator

c. benevolent dictator

d. beneficial dictator

Answer: c

4. “Nothing that happens in this world ever happens by chance; it is all part of a grand design.” This statement expresses about a person’s _____.

a. ambition

b. dreams

c. destiny

d. luck

Answer: c

5. What does this passage say about life? “Life is but walking shadow, a pun player that struts and frets… and is heard no more.”

a. life is just a passing stage

b. life is limited

c. life has its end

d. life is ever changing

Answer: c

6. Almost two thirds of the population today ______ poor.

a. is

b. are

c. has been

d. were

Answer: a

7. Much _____ left unproductive by the flooding.

a. has been

b. is

c. is being

d. have been

Answer: a

8. The _____ that, for various reasons, girls spent less time working with computers than boys.

a. studies revealing

b. studies reveal

c. studies revealed

d. studies was revealing

Answer: c

9. “He has been absent for three days because he is _____ measles.”

a. affected of

b. afflicted with

c. afflicted of

d. affected with

Answer: b

10. _____ to our appeal for reconsideration, the Board of Discipline will not give us any extension for filling additional evidence.

a. As regards

b. In regard

c. With regards as

d. With regard

Answer: d

11, Everyone in the field of entertainment _____ to watch the FAMAS Awards.

a. was excited

b. were certainly excited

c. is certainly excited

d. are certainly excited

Answer: c

12. During the Independence Day celebrations, the directive is _____.

a. hang your flags on June 12

b. Hanged your flags during June 12

c. hanged you flags on June 12

d. hung your flags on June 12

Answer: a

13. The Vice-Governor said, “I _____ won the election without the backing of a religious sect.

a. could had

b. should have not

c. shall have not

d. should

Answer: b

14. The measure of choosing well is whether or not man likes what he _____.

a. chose

b. has chosen

c. choose

d. is choosing

Answer: b

15. After 8 unfruitful years, Antonino finally quit his job. He _____ along with his immediate boss a long time before he finally decided to look for a new job.

a. didn’t get

b. isn’t getting

c. hasn’t been getting

d. hadn’t been getting

Answer: c

16. Many years of intensive language study are required for immigrant speakers. Antonio _____ French for 3 years, but he will need more training before he masters it.

a. will have been studying

b. will be studying

c. has been studying

d. have been studying

Answer: c

17. An association wherein the name of something is substituted by something represents it.

a. Comparison

b. Personification

c. Euphemism

d. Apostrophe

Answer: d

18. A figure of speech which denotes a direct address to an abstract or a person who passed away.

a. Euphemism

b. Asyndeton

c. Comparison

d. Apostrophe

Answer: d

19. The Independent Power Producers (IPP’s) | a are seeking a | b higher price increase for | c power generation. No error | d.

Answer: d

20. They don not | a care whether | b or not they passed | c the qualifying examinations. No error. | d

Answer: c – pass