Midterm Examination in GE 1

UNDERSTANDING THE SELF

Instruction: Read each statement carefully. Any form of erasure or

alteration on your answer shall be construed wrong. Write legibly and
clearly.
1. What does the Looking-Glass Self Theory state?
a. states that our self is shaped by reflected opinions on other
people
b. states that people, in social settings, are constantly engaging in
“impression management”
c. states that we conform to our society’s agreed upon values
d. states that you are looking through a blurry glass and you can’t see
yourself
2. According to Abraham Maslow, what is the most important need that
must be fulfilled?
a. Self-actualization
b. Physiological needs
c. Love and belongingness
d. Safety and security
3. Friendship is an example of something that would be found on this
hierarchical level.
a. Physiological needs
b. Safe and security
c. Love and belongingness
d. Self-actualization
4. What is the ultimate goal that is achieved through the progression of
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs?
a. Humanism
b. Psychoanalysis
c. Love and belonging
d. Self-actualization
5. What is the order of needs, from bottom to top?
a. safety, physiological, love, esteem, self-actualization
b. self-actualization, esteem, love, safety, physiological
c. physiological, safety, love, esteem, self-actualization
d. esteem, love, physiological, safety, self-actualization
6. Feeling a part of a group helps us meet _________ need.
a. Physiological needs
b. Safety and security
c. Love and belonging
d. Esteem
7. Children begin to develop an understanding of themselves as separate
and distinct from the environment, causality, time and space in which
stage of cognitive development?
a. Sensorimotor
b. Pre-operational
c. Concrete operational
d. Formal operational
8. It is the process of taking new information and adding it to what the
child already knows is called _________.
a. Accommodation
b. Schemata
c. Assimilation
d. All of the above
9. _____________ are mental representations or concepts.
a. Schemas
b. Scenes
c. Theory
d. Adaptation
10. An infant who has developed object permanence _____________.
a. is attached to specific objects, such as a blanket.
b. will see all objects as being the same.
c. knows that an object, such as rattle, exists even if it is not
in view.
d. cries when a wanted object is taken away.
11. The ability to use deductive logic, think abstractly and
systematically solve problems emerge during the ________________.
a. Concrete operational stage
b. Sensorimotor stage
c. Formal operational stage
d. Preoperational stage
12. The inability of young children to see the world through someone
else’s view is termed __________.
a. Centration
b. Irreversibility
c. Conservation
d. Egocentrism
13. In this stage, children are good so that they can be seen as good
to other people.
a. Preconventional
b. Conventional
c. Post-conventional
14. If a child is good because they do not want to avoid punishment,
which stage are the students in?
a. Preconventional
b. Conventional
c. Post-conventional
15. In this stage, individual judgement is based on individual rights
and justice for the greater good.
a. Preconventional
b. Conventional
c. Post-conventional
16. Does everyone achieve the last stage of moral development?
a. Yes
b. No
17. In this stage, the child is aware of wider rules of society. At this
point, a student is good because of what society says.
a. Preconventional
b. Conventional
c. Post-conventional
18. It is the part wherein thoughts and perceptions are located.
a. Ego
b. Subconscious
c. preconscious
d. conscious
19. It is the moral principle of the Freudian personality structure.
a. Id
b. Ego
c. Superego
20. Which of the following statements best describes the Freudian
tripartite?
a. Superego must be powerful than ID
b. Ego should be always conforming to standards
c. Ego, ID and Superego should maintain balance
d. Ego should be always in line with goodness.
21. How do you strengthen your moral standards for the superego?
a. Family
b. School
c. Spirituality
d. Friend’s advice
22. Which is an example of the autonomy vs. shame and doubt
stage?
a. A teenager trying out new fashions and hairstyles
b. A preschooler insisting on picking out her own clothes, no
matter how mismatched they are.
c. A middle-schooler completing a challenging math assignment.
23. The stage that occurs between birth and one year of age is
concerned with:
a. Initiative vs, Guilt
b. Trust vs. Mistrust
c. Identity vs. Role Confusion
d. Generativity vs. Stagnation
24. According to Erikson’s Psychosocial Stages of Development,
which stage describes a child who needs to learn important academic
skills and compare favorably with peers in school to achieve
competence?
a. Trust vs. Mistrust
b. Identity vs. Role Confusion
c. Initiative vs. Guilt
d. Industry vs. Inferiority
25. Successful completion of Erikson’s 8th stage of psychosocial
development results in which of the following virtues?
a. Hope
b. Fidelity
c. Wisdom
d. Purpose
26. What is the name of Erik Erikson’s development theory?
a. Psychosocial
b. Cognitive
c. Moral
d. Physical
27. Who conceptualized the Looking-Glass Self/
a. Charles Cooley
b. Erving Goffman
c. Charlie Cooley
d. Erving Golfman
28. Which is the part of the Looking-Glass Self Theory?
a. We act in certain ways to be accepted in the society.
b. We create our self-image according to the judgement of
others.
c. We play different parts determined by different situations.
d. We change behaviors to fit in social situations.
29. When was the Looking-Glass Self Theory created?
a. 1802
b. 1720
c. 1912
d. 1902
30. He was one of the 20th century’s most influential researchers in
the area of developmental psychology.
a. Jeen Piaget
b. Jean Piagget
c. Jeen Piagget
d. Jean Piaget
31. It is the acquisition of the ability to think, reason and solve
problem.
a. Cognitive development
b. Formal Operational
c. Sensorimotor
d. Equilibrium
32. What psychological approach did Carl Rogers follow in his
theory?
 a. Behavioral
b. Humanistic
c. Cognitive
d. Sociocultural
33. Who else follow humanistic approach?
a. Abraham Maslow
b. Sigmund Freud
c. Carl Jung
d. Alfred Adler
34. What is the Actualizing Tendency?
a. Not setting goals
b. Having a constant negative attitude
c. Having motivation to live life to the fullest
d. Fixating on the past
35. What is an individual’s “ideal self”?
a. Who they currently are
b. Who they want to become
c. Who they were as a child
d. Who others see them as
36. What is an individual’s “self-image”?
a. How they physically look
b. The negative thoughts they have about themselves
c. How their family sees them
d. How they see themselves
37. What is congruence?
a. When an individual reaches their ideal self
b. When an individual’s ideal self corresponds with their self
image
c. When an individual reaches their ideal self image
d. When an individual achieves their goals
38. Which is not characteristic is NOT part of the Fully Functioning
Person?
a. They are creative
b. They are dishonest
c. They live a fulfilled life
d. They are open to experience
39. Who conceptualized the self presentation theory?
a. Jean Piaget
b. Carl Rogers
c. George Herbert Mead
d. Irving Goffman
40. This theory explains how individuals use verbal and non-verbal
cues to project a particular image in society.
a. Hierarchy of Needs
b. Theory of Moral Development
c. Looking-Glass Self Theory
d. Self Presentation Theory

Prepared by:

GAUDENCIO N. ANDAYA JR., PhD, DPA

Instructor