SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

NAME: ______________________________ SCORE: ____________________

GRADE & SECTION: ____________________ DATE: _____________________

I. MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the chosen letter on the space
provided before each number.

1.Self awareness is the knowledge of :

a. your thoughts
b. your characteristics
c. your feeligs
d. All are correct

2. What is self-concept?
a. Self-concept is a construct that differentiates social roles
b. Self-concept is a construct that lies ahead of the actual and ideal selves
c. Self-concept consists only of the actual self
d. Self-concept is a construct that negotiates the actual and ideal self

3. What best describes when your self-concept is being threatened?

a. You continue to work on a task and you realize you are getting better at it every day
b. You are repeatedly told that you do not have the ability to perform a task
c. You are at a new job and you were able to make a good impression on your employer
d. The person that you met saw you in the way that you imagined

4. Ideal Self is ?
a. The self that can be seen by others?
b. The self that you were nurtured
c. the self that you aspire to be
d. all are correct

5. Which component of self identity is related to how we evaluate our own general worth?
a. self-esteem
b. Introspection
c. social identity
d. all of the answers are correct

6.What factors contribute to negative body image?

a. Negative comments from others
b. advertisements
c. the media
d. all of the answers are correct.

7. Self- knowledge is derived from?

a. Social Roles
b. Social Interactions
c. Self Concept
d. None of the above

8. This is where people play as part of a social group.

a. Social Roles
b. Social Interactions
c. Self Concept
d. Social Norms

9. This is an unwritten rules about how we behave.

a. Social Roles
b. Social Interactions
c. Self Concept
d. Social Norms

10. Actual Self is built on?

a. Self Concept
b. Self Knowledge
c. Self esteem
d. Social Interactions

11. To achieve life goals, personal effectiveness means making use of all the personal resources, except
?
a. Energy
b.skills
c. money
d. talents

12. Our personal effectiveness depends on our:

a. innate characteristics
b.talent
c.experiences
d. all are correct

13. Choose the skills that will greatly increase the efficiency of any person who owns them.
a. Determination
b. Self-confidence
c.Persistence
d. all are correct

14.It allows you to find extraordinary to carry out a specific action that no one has tried to use.
a. Creativity
b.Determination
c.Generating Ideas
d. None of the above

15. It helps you achieve goals using new, original, unconventional ideas.
a. Creativity
b.Determination
c.Generating Ideas
d. None of the above

16. This person watches the movie of their lives, admires some parts and criticizes others.
a. Actor
b. Moviegoer
c.Scriptwriter
d. All are correct

17.This person does not only watch the movie of his/her life but can control a big part of it.
a. Actor
b. Moviegoer
c.Scriptwriter
d. All are correct

18. This person does not only watch , and he/she doesn’t only act, but this person create the entire
movie from his/her mind.
a. Actor
b. Moviegoer
c.Scriptwriter
d. All are correct

19. LIFE-SPAN development begins with________ and ends with

a. Birth; death
b.conception; old age
c. Infancy; old age
d. conception; death

20. Which view of children is tated in the doctrine of original sin?

a. Children although born good, are destined to become evil.
b. Evil Children are born only to parents who have sinned.
c. Children are born good and remain that way until adulthood
d. Children are basically bad and are born as evil beings.

21. Which philosophical view assumes that the child’s mind at birth is a blank tablet?
a. Original sin
b. tabula rasa
c. determinism
d. innate

22. Contrary to the view held centuries ago, today we believe that:
a. Children are miniature adults
b. Childhood is a unique and important period in life
c. Children ought to be treated as small adults in need of training but little else
d. Children are autonomous and may be expected to grow and develop with very little parental
support.

23. The traditional approach to development emphasizes:

a. little change from birth through old age
b. extensive change from birth to adolescence, adulthood and old age
c. extensive change from birth to adulthood, then little change for the rest of the life span
d. extensive change from birth to adolescence, little or no change in adulthood, then decline in late
old age.

24. The traditional and life-span perspectives are contrasting views of developmental change.
According to the life-span perspective, when do developmental changes occur?
a. during infancy and early childhood
b. during adolescence and early adulthood
c. during middle and late adulthood
d. throughout the entire life cycle

25. Marcus spends a great deal of time working and trying to establish his career. He also has been
thinking about how his personal relationship is going and considering whether it could be long-term
and lead to establishing a family. Marcus is MOST LIKELY in:
a. late adolescence.
b. early adulthood.
c. middle adulthood.
d. late adulthood

26. Voxtra depends almost completely on his parents. He is just learning to recognize things that he
wants and how to get them. Voxtra is in the development period called:
a. late childhood.
b. middle childhood.
c. early childhood.
d. infancy.

27. Which period of development is characterized by establishing independence, developing an

identity, and thinking more abstractly?
a. middle childhood
b. late childhood
c. adolescence
d. early adulthood
28. The period of development during which school readiness skills are developed and most free time is
spent playing with friends is called:
a. infancy.
b. early childhood.
c. middle childhood.
d. late childhood.

29. Many older persons become wiser with age, yet perform more poorly on cognitive speed tests. This
supports the life-span perspective notion that development is:
a. multidirectional.
b. multidimensional.
c. lifelong.
d. plastic.

30. The expectations society has that a person will act his or her age refers to:
a. biological age.
b. social age.
c. psychological age.
d. historical age.

31. Alex believes people are primarily influenced by the environment and learned experiences, so he
believes _______ plays a more powerful role in human development.
a. nurture
b. maturation
c. change
d. nature

32. Which statement BEST resolves the nature-nurture controversy?

a. Nature is clearly more important in development.
b. The interaction between nature and nurture is most important in development.
c. Nurture is clearly more important in development.
d. Neither plays a particularly strong role in development.

33. The main advantage of the naturalistic observation technique involves:

a. real-world validity.
b. great control over extraneous variables.
c. the ability to utilize inferential statistics.
d. a lack of ethical controls.

34. Which method of collecting information about life-span development is most likely to include a life
calendar?
a. life-history record
b. case study
c. sequential approach
d. interview

35. Which statement BEST resolves the nature-nurture controversy?

a. Nature is clearly more important in development.
b. The interaction between nature and nurture is most important in development.
c. Nurture is clearly more important in development.
d. Neither plays a particularly strong role in development.

II. On your own understanding, explain the following.

1. A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man’s attention and inflame his ambition.
–John Adams 5pts.

2. Life is growth. If we stop growing technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.
-Morihei Ueshiba 5pts.
3. Personal development is a major time saver. The better you become, the less time it takes you
to achieve your goals. – Brian Tracy .5pts.