Grethel Joy Hernandez-Doria

BEEd-IVb

Child and Adolescent Development

1. Every morning your pupils buy soup for snack and you use cover the soup with a plate.
One day, bearing in mind that it is a soup, a child immediately hurried in front to buy soup,
but only to know that it was a steamed banana and not a soup. What idea does the
situation convey?
a. Accommodation c. Equilibration
b. Assimilation d. Object Permanence
Answer: D – Object Permanence is used to describe a child's ability to know that
objects continue to exist even though they can no longer be seen or heard.
2. Train up a child in the way he should be; when he grows up, he will not depart from it.
Which principle supports this?
a. Development is determined by his heredity
b. Development is determined by the environment
c. Early development is more critical than the late development
d. Early development is less critical than late development.

Answer: B – Caregivers who trained and nurture the child are considered the environment.

3. Ralphe Gavigne behaves so well and frequently answers teacher’s questions to get a star.
What stage of moral development is shown?
a. Law and Order c. Punishment/Obedience
b. Mutual Benefit d. Social Approval

Answer: B – Mutual Benefit- One is motivated to act by the benefit that one may obtain
later. Because of a star as a reward, the pupil will behave and listen, the Teacher can teach well,
so she will be motivated to give rewards later.