PART 3: PRACTICE TEST FOR PROFESSIONAL

EDUCATION CHILD & ADOLESCENT

DEVELOPMENT
51. He is responsible for the theory which recognizes the
importance of developing multiple intelligence
a. Jean Piaget
b. Howard Gardner
c. Frederick Froebel
d. Sigmund Freud
52. The need to recognize and develop special sensitivity
to language, thus helping the learners to use the right
word, phrase and/or graph to grasp new meaning refers
to
a. visual intelligence
b. linguistic intelligence
c. feelings sensitivity
d. jargon
53. The sensitivity to tone and pitch, allowing one to
produce musical scoring is intelligence in?
a. musical
b. verbal ability
c. quantitative exercises
d. qualitative analysis
54. Ones ability to do abstract reasoning and manipulate
symbols refers to what type of intelligence?

c. social intelligence
d. quantitative and qualitative
58. The type of intelligence which characterizes actress,
actors, mimes, dancers and people of the Arts?
a. bodilykinesthetic
b. scientific
c. research
d. emotions
59. An emerging thrust in determining ones personality,
whether pleasant or unwholesome, this type of
personality measurement is the wholesomeness of ones
virtues, i.e., values, relationships with other, adjustments
to varying situations, behavior an motivations
a. emotional quotient (E.Q.)
b. intelligence quotient (I.Q.)
c. maladjustment personality
d. anticipated behavior
60. It is a measurement of personality which is the result
by dividing the mental age by the chronological age.
a. emotional quotient (E.Q.)
b. intelligence quotient (I.Q.)
c. multiple Intelligence
d. forecasted behavior quotient

b. personality identification

61. The teacher must be aware that both heredity and

environment represent complex factors, exerting many
specific influences on an individuals growth. Which of the
following statements best represents the influence of
heredity and environment?

c. mental ability

a. Heredity counts environment is less important.

d. mathematicallogical

b. If the environment is changed, heredity becomes less

important.

55. The ability to perceive how objects are related in

order to mentally perceive what is seen, thus creating
concrete visual images from memory refers to?

c. The relative influences of heredity and environment

can vary widely in an individuals growth.

a. visualspatial intelligence

d. In the long run, both tend to cancel each others

influences

a. musical

b. musical
c. language
d. logical reasoning

e. None of the above

62. Heredity has a part in determining intelligence. Which
of the following statements support this principle?

56. The capacity to analyze ones feelings and thus be

able to understand and be able to know the motives of
other peoples actions.

a. Environment affects both fraternal and identical twins

a. spatial

c. Intelligence is determined partly by prenatal nutrition

b. personal

d. Identical twins are more alike than fraternal twins

c. logical

63. Educators who contributed to the open education

movement includes:

d. diametric
57. The type of intelligence which enables a person to
understand other persons feelings, behavior and
motivation.
a. emotional
b. spatial

b. Intelligence hinges in physical structures

a. Neill and piaget

b. Kohl and kozol
c. Bruner and Silberman
d. All of the above
64. A childs social skills can be measured by:

a. direct observation and parentteacher conferences

d. environmental or emotional actors

b. psychological test

71. If a teacher accepts Maslows theory on the hierarchy

of needs, he or she will probably structure objectives to:

c. adaptive behavior scales

d. A and C above

a. meet both the physiological and intellectual needs of

students

65. A teacher uses behavioral modification techniques in

his classes. Which of the following student behaviors
would he find most difficult to change?

b. eliminate testing

a. Aggressive tendencies toward classmates

d. maintain a certain anxiety level for increased

competition

c. eliminate extrinsic motivations

b. Poor habits in organizing work materials

c. Interrupting a speaker
d. Abandoning a project before it is finished
66. Learningdisabled children most characteristically
have:
a. low IQ
b. poor socioeconomic backgrounds

72. The knowledge explosion has led to crowding more

and more information into curriculum courses. A likely
result is that:
a. the textbook will no longer be the main instructional
medium in many classes
b. the child may spend more time in school

c. an average level of intelligence

c. the teacher may have to rely more on these

multimedia materials

d. minimal brain damage

d. all of the above

67. Which of the following is true about educable

mentally retarded children?

73. During the learning process the teacher has most

control over:

a. Their IQ range between 50 and 70

a. the learners

b. They have short attention spans and experience

difficulty in generalizing

b. the learning environment

c. Their reading, writing, and arithmetic skills cannot be

improved
d. A and B above
68. Which of the following is characteristics of a dyslexic
child
a. Mirror writing
b. listlessness
c. Belowaverage intelligence
d. Hyperactivity
69. Primary reading retardation is presumed to be
neurologically based, related to parietal lobe dysfunction?
a. Inability to relate sound to letter symbols
b. Inadequate auditory information processing
c. Leftright directional confusion
d. Speech aphasia
70. Students with secondary reading problems have
capacity to read, but are nonreaders because of:
a. auditory problems
b. congenital defects
c. visualacuity impairment

c. the learning process

d. the behavior of the learners
74. Which of the following conditions does NOT contribute
to a climate psychologically suited to learning?
a. The teacher acts like a real person.
b. The teacher makes all of the decisions about students
learning activities.
c. The teacher accepts students as they are
d. The teacher shows trust in students decisions
75. William Glasser advocates the frequent use of
classroom meetings, with teacher and students sitting in
a small circle. Which one of the following types of
discussion would NOT be appropriate in such a setting?
a. An educationaldiagnostic conference on the learning
weaknesses of individual students.
b. An openended meeting for the purpose of exploring
and discussing students ideas about the curriculum
c. A socialproblemsolving meeting to resolve teacher or
student problems elating to the school, the class, or any
individual member.
d. A sensitivitytraining meeting for the purpose of helping
students ace their schoolrelated problems and learn how
their actions can affect others