PRACTICE TEST FOR PROFESSIONAL

EDUCATION
1. A stage in which stones implements
were polished and keenly sharpened,
thus being made for superior to their
earlier prototypes shelter was created
out of materials converted from their
natural state into blocks, beams or
boards.
a. Eolithic
b. Neolithic
c. Paleolithic
d. Primitive
2. Whose educational theorist states
that within the consciousness of the
individual, within the moral nature of
man is to be found the determination
of the aim of life and purpose of
education?
a. Aristotle
b. Plato
c. Socrates
d. Quintillan
3. To whom do Filipinos owe the
widespread Philippine educational
system today?
a. The first Filipino political leaders
b. The Americans
c. The Japanese
d. The Spaniards
4. The aim of this education is for the
salvation of individual souls through
moral physical disciplines and self
desire.

c. Chivalric education
d. Humanism
5. A movement based on the belief
that education should be concerned
with actualities of life, in effect it was
a form of protest against the
formalism of humanist and the
religious reformers.
a. Reformation Movement
b. Idealist Movement
c. Realist Movement
d. Humanism Movement
6. Branches of Philosophy that deals
with the problems of values that
include ethical, aesthetic, religious and
social values.
a. Logic
b. Axiology
c. Epistemology
d. Metaphysics
7. An act that requires education
graduates to take a licensure test
under the supervision of the PRC.
a. R.A. No. 7722
b. R.A. No. 7784
c. R.A. No. 7836
d. R.A. No. 4670
8. It refers to the quantitative changes
in an individual as he progress in
chronological age.
a. Development
b. Growth

a. Scholasticism

c. Education

b. Monasticism

d. Maturation

9. 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.

review, drills and other means is

_________.

a. Jean Piaget

c. Reinforcement

b. Sigmund Freud

d. Interest

c. Erik Erikson

14. Learning is strengthened if it

results to satisfaction but weakened if
it results to annoyance is _________.

d. Laurence Kohlberg
10. A process of creating a new
scheme after an individuals
interaction with the environment.

a. Motivation
b. Extinction

a. Law of Effect
b. Law of Exercise

a. Equilibration

c. Law of Readiness

b. Accommodation

d. all of the above

c. Assimilation

15. Whose thought is this: Although

there is an external world from which
human beings acquire sensory in
formation, ideas originate from the
workings of the mind.

d. Maturation
11. In what level of Moral
Development which judgments are
based on the norms of expectations of
the group?
a. Post conventional morality
b. Pre conventional morality
c. Theory of moral development
d. Conventional morality
12. The theory where in association
between a conditioned stimulus a
response is strengthened by repeated
presentation with the unconditional
stimulus.

a. Rationalist
b. Existentialist
c. Empiricist
d. Pragmatist
16. It is the study of mans pre history
through the buried remains of ancient
culture, skeletal remnants of human
beings.
a. Anthropology
b. Archeology

a. Connectionism theory

c. Ethnology

b. Classical Conditioning

d. Ethnography

c. Operant conditioning

17. It is the strong ideas of right and

wrong which embody the moral views
of the group.

d. Social Learning theory

13. Factors affect learning that made
through the use of audio visual aids,

a. Folkways

b. Culture
c. Taboo
d. Mores
18. It is the belief in supernatural
spirits who are presumably interfering
with the mans affairs.

22. Stage when at the onset of

puberty, feelings is directed toward
other persons of opposite sex.
a. Latency Stage
b. Genital
c. Anal Stage

a. Animism

d. Phallic Stage

b. Fatalism

23. A theory which describes how the

intellect develops and comes to know
and understand the world.

c. Euphemism
d. Rationalism
19. It is the desire to be accepted by
his fellowmen for what he is and to be
treated according to his status.

a. Psychological Theory
b. Theory of Moral Development
c. Psychoanalysis Theory

a. Pakikisama

d. Cognitive Theory

b. Go between

24. Stage in cognitive development

was children begin to learn symbols
system and concepts, acquire
concepts and learn to add and
subtract.

c. social acceptance
d. Hiya
20. 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
21. A pre school child says: That tree
pushed the leaf off, and it fell down.
This shows that the pre school child
believes that inanimate objects have
lifelike qualities and are capable of
action. This belief is called ______
a. symbolism
b. animation
c. realism
d. animism

a. Formal Operation Stage

b. Pre operation Stage
c. Concrete Operation Stage
d. Sensory Motor Stage
25. Experimentation in Science
laboratory classes is an example of
a. Cognitive Learning
b. Sensory Motor Learning
c. Affective Learning
d. Association Learning
26. Learning which involves
acquisition of attitudes, ideas,
judgment and knowledge concerning
values that may result from
experience.

a. Problem solving Learning

d. Social Group

b. Association Learning

31. It is an example of the Law of

Effect.

c. Affective Learning
d. Cognitive Learning
27. One way of studying the human
mind is through looking into ones own
self find out his own conscious feelings
or sensations.
a. Introspection
b. Psychoanalysis
c. Behaviorism
d. Imagination
28. His theory focused on the problem
of what people do with information to
achieve generalized in sights.
a. Kohler
b. Brunner
c. Kohlberg
d. Watson
29. How a child talks or gestures which
have been learned from models he has
been exposed to is an example of.

a. constant repetition of reciting a

poem
b. learning to read
c. reviewing a lessons
d. tendency to repeat and learn to
interpret the poem taught
32. The philosophical doctrine that
emphasizes the role of experience
rather than the role of reason as the
source of knowledge.
a. Pragmatism
b. Empiricism/Pragmatism
c. Progressivism
d. Functionalism
33. Believes in the doctrine that there
is an indispensable common core of
culture that can be identified and
should be taught to all with religious
standards of achievements.
a. Idealism

a. Insight Learning

b. Existentialism

b. Social Learning Theory

c. Empiricism

c. Instrumental Conceptualism

d. Essentialism

d. Programmed Learning

34. His aim of education is individual

not a preparation for but participation
in the life

30. The desire or tendency of people

who went to be with other people
particularly people

around the individual.

of their own kind is.

a. Froebel

a. Group

b. Spencer

b. Gregariousness (sociability)

c. Herbart

c. Association

d. Pestalozzi

35. Which philosophy approves of a

teacher who lectures most of the time
and requires his students to memorize
the rules of grammar?
a. Pragmatism
b. Existentialism
c. Realism
d. Idealism
36. Which of the following abilities is
stressed by humanistic education?
a. Enjoy the great works of man such
as the classics.
b. Learn the different philosophies of
education.
c. Make man distinctly civilized,
educated and refined.
d. Develop men into a thinking
individual.

c. Realist
d. Existentialist
39. Which among the following
objectives in the psychomotor domain
is the highest in level?
a. To contract a muscle
b. To run a 100 meter dash
c. To distinguish distant and close
sound
d. To dance the basic steps of the
waltz
40. Which instructional aids pupils to
perform?
a. Mock up
b. Film
c. Pantomime
d. Comic books

37. Which of the following is an

example of linguistic over extension
that a 2 year old might make?

41. Which of the following best

describes counseling as a profession?

a. saying bye bye to indicate that he

or she wants to go out

b. Problem focused

a. Help oriented

b. pointing to a cat and saying

doggie

c. Teaching related

c. repeating certain syllables, such as

ma m a ma

42. The person extending professional

assistance to another during the
counseling process is referred to as.

d. reversing word order, such as want

it, paper

d. Process directed

a. counselor

38. Sometimes it may better to make

wrong decisions when a decision is
urgent to make

b. psychologist

a right decision too late a thought

encourage by the.

d. clinical psychologist

c. teacher counselor

a. Rationalist

43. The developmental focus of the

guidance process suggests that it.

b. Progressivist

a. Follows definite phases and stages

b. Entails much time and effort

c. Is characterized by varied changes
d. Facilitates changes in all aspects
44. Which of the following
qualifications may best ensure the
professional competence of the school
counseling personnel?
a. Work experience
b. Educational Training
c. Length of service
d. Honors and awards
45. How may education and guidance
support and complement each other
to the learners
advantage?
a. Designating teachers to guidance
position
b. Assigning guidance responsibilities
to teachers
c. Consulting students in guidance
program planning
d. Integrating guidance and counseling
in daily lessons
46. The enhancement of the learners
decision making skills is premised on
the belief that he/she has the right
and capability to.
a. formulate life goals
b. make independent choices
c. receive maximum assistance
d. develop potentials to the optimum
47. When a teacher consistently fuses
problem solving and coping skills in

her teaching guidance that is likely to

be reinforced is the ________ area.
a. academic
b. career
c. personal
d. co curricular
48. As essential guidance service that
deals with monitoring counseling
cases as well as school graduates is
called.
a. counseling
b. information
c. placement
d. follow up
49. Which of the following is NOT a
guidance role of the classroom
teacher?
a. Psychological Test Administrator
b. Listener Adviser
c. Human Potential Discoverer
d. Total Development Facilitator
50. How many classroom teacher help
a learner client regain selfconfidence
after going through a personal crisis?
a. Assign him as peer counselor
b. Recommend him for transfer to
another class
c. Make solutions to future problems
readily available
d. Provide him with continued
understanding and support.