DIVISION UNIFIED TEST

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Disciplines and Ideas in the Social Sciences
First Quarter

Instruction: Read the questions carefully and select the letter of the correct answer.

1. What do you call the academic field 5. What makes social science different
that examines the relationship from humanities?
between individuals and societies? A. social science deals more with
A. Physical Science scientific approach unlike humanities it
B. Natural Science involves more with critical and
C. Social Science analytical approach
D. Environmental Science B. social science deals with unnatural
events using scientific methods unlike
2. When did the development of social humanities it uses investigative
science begun? methods
A. Age of Enlightenment C. social science involves more with
B. Renaissance Period inquiry based approach unlike
C. Age of Exploration humanities it is more on systematic
D. Discovery Period approach
D. social science focuses in
3. What distinguishes natural science transforming nature while humanities
from social science? are more focused in transforming
A. it focuses on the prediction of humans.
events
B. it gives emphasis on the natural 6. If anthropology means the study of
events humans. Psychology means?
C. it centers on constructing theories A. the study of “society”
about an event B. the study of “mind”
D. it aims to understand the human C. the study of “politics”
political events D. the study of “nature”

4. Why is humanities considered to be 7. Aristotle is the “Father of Political

more philosophical than the social Science”. Who is the “Father of
sciences? History?”
A. it deals with how political systems A. Achilles
affect humans B. Pericles
B. it is regarded as a subject rather C. Socrates
than practiced D. Herodotus
C. it deals with questions of what
makes us human 8. Adam Smith wrote the book entitled
D. it is developed from prescriptive “The Wealth of Nations”. Who wrote
practices the book entitled “The Prince”?
A. Auguste Comte
B. Thomas Maltus
C. Wilhelm Wundt
D. Niccolo Machiavelli
9. If demography is the study of
populations, what is sociology?
A. the study of human society
B. the study of human behavior
C. the study of human mind
D. the study of human culture
10. Some of the key personalities in
Political Science are Plato and
Aristotle. Who are the key
personalities in Economics?
A. Immanuel Kant and Carl Ritter
B. Adam Smith and Karl Marx
C. John Locke and Thomas Hobbes
D. Thomas Maltus and William Farr
11. Which of the following statements
explains what should an anthropologist
do that a geographer shouldn’t do?
A. an anthropologist solves problems
about scarcity of resources
B. an anthropologist excavates
numerous places for fossils
C. an anthropologist studies the
features of the earth
D. an anthropologist examines the
experiences of people
12. How could you determine that a
person is a biological anthropologist?
A. he/she studies the causes of death
and early death
B. he/she focuses on exploration of
different places
C.he/she centers in the study of
communication
D. he/she understands human
experiences
13. How is economics related to social
history?
A. they emphasizes the effects human
activities to nature
B. they are concern with the
preservation of the human culture
C. both are studying on the
relationships of human society
D. they focuses on the major social
phenomena and everyday life
14. Which of the statements below
shows how Anthropology is related to
Political Science in terms of the
diversity in the methods used?
A. Anthropology and Political Science
includes two or more approaches in
dealing with its case studies
B. Anthropology and Political Science
deals with different people from
different parts of the world
C. Anthropology and Political Science
focuses on the variation of culture and
tradition from places to places
D. Anthropology and Political Science
emphasizes in using one method to
have a unified result of research
15. Geography has been called “the
bridge between the human and the
physical sciences” because the natural
environment for human is to
understand. Why do you think History
was regarded as “the sum of total of
many things taken together”?
A. History examines the living cultures
and excavates material remains of one
tribe
B. History analyze the past production
and consumption activity of people
from other places
C. History interprets the written
records of past human activity from
different places
D. History seeks to unfold the
mysteries of all human and natural
complexities
16. Why is psychology different from
anthropology, economics, political
science, and sociology?
A. it seeks to explain the mental
functions and overt behavior of
individuals
B. it aims to criticize the research
methods used to address social issues
in the society
C. it examines the formation of culture
and tradition practiced in a traditional
society
D. it focuses in creating patterns of 20. When was the emergence of
behaviors that a society should follow demography when it separated from
and preserve Statistics?
A. 16th century
17. History is the study of all events in B. 18th century
time in relation to humanity. Why is C. 19th century
Anthropology considered to be the D. 21st century
study of humanity?
A. deals with the totality of the human 21. Who founded sociology as a formal
existence academic field of study during the late
B. encompasses all aspects in human 19th century?
environment A. Thomas Hobbes
C. interprets the human activities in a B. Sigmund Freud
society C. Emile Durkheim
D. understand the human behaviors in D. Immanuel Kant
societies
22. What do you call the first school of
18. Niccolo Machiavelli became the psychology that focuses on breaking
Father of Political Science for writing a down mental processes into the most
handbook in the art of government. basic components?
Why does Whelm Wundt become the A. Structuralism
Father of Psychology? B. Interactionism
A. he wrote a book explaining the C. Marxism
reasons behind the human behaviors D. Functionalism
B. he started the first laboratory in
psychology for studying humans 23. Who was the American sociologist
C. he formulated a theory about the that laid out his theory of manifest
functions of human mental behavior function in his book “Social Theory and
D. he created a group of psychologist Social Structure”?
and they established a school A. William James
B. Robert K. Merton
19. In demography, Malthus looked at C. Edward B. Titchener
the rate of population growth and D. Wilhelm Wundt
concludes that food production could
not possibly increase fast enough to 24. Researchers tried to understand
be sufficient. In economics, why do the the basic element of consciousness
people cannot satisfy all their wants? using the method known as
A. government controls all the introspection. Introspection means?
available resources A. the art of questioning your own
B. consumers consumes the resources thoughts and mind
without limitation B. the creation of questions to know
C. resources are not replaced after your own thoughts
consumed C. the process criticizing your own
D. resources are scarce and not thoughts
sufficient D. the process of examining your own
thoughts
25. How are you going evaluate things
that would result to the work of the
social institutions?
A. pattern, behaviors, and tradition
B. kinship, clothes, and practices
C. family, religion, and education
D. manners, practices, and pattern
26. Which of the following statements
supports the conscious and deliberate
intention of the institution?
A. it is to produce educated young
people who understand their worlds
and its history, and who have
knowledge and practical skills to be
productive members of society.
B. it is to produce graduates that know
how to create changes in the society
by being a law abiding citizen and be a
role model to other members of the
society
C. to help the members of the society
to be well informed about the laws and
regulations created for the betterment
of the society and be devoted in
following those rules
D. to inform the youth of the country
about how their society developed and
how it affects the members of the
society and the incoming generation in
all ways
27. Which of the following statements
validate the conscious and deliberate
intention of the institution of media?
A. it is to inform the public of important
news and events so that they can play
an active role in democracy
B. it is to help the people in the public
to be knowledgeable enough about the
advancement in the society
C. to produce information to the public
about the changes in the rules and
regulations in the society
D. to update the public about the past
information about the events inside
and outside the society
28. Based on what you know about
structural-functionalism, how would
you justify the latent functions of the
institution of education?
A. it is to form friendships among
students who matriculate at the same
school.
B. it is to practice the correct conduct
inside and outside the school or
society.
C. it is to prepare the students become
a globally competitive workers in the
country.
D. it is to inspire the students to
become the agent of change that they
want to see.
29. Why are harmful latent functions
termed as “dysfunctions”?
A. they bring chaos and confusion in
an individual
B. it will lead to wrong interpretations
of the society
C. it will create disequilibrium in the
society
D. they cause disorder and conflict
within society
30. Which of the following statements
explains why dysfunctionalities in
nature occur?
A.when unexpected negative
consequences occur
B.when an expected positive
consequence happens
C. when the negative consequences
are in fact known in advance
D. when the positive consequences
are known to happen
31. Which among the statements
shows the significance of sociological
research?
A. it can predict possible social
issues/happenings and creates
solutions before it happens.
B. it presents harmful social problems
which are unintentionally created by
laws
C. it focuses on how sociological
theories be used to address social
conflict that happens inside the society
D. it focuses on how researchers look
for answers to their questions and
come up with solution
32. Stop and Frisk Policy is designed
to do good but actually does harm.
Which of the following situations
supports the statement about the
policy?
A. This policy gives the police the
permission to arrest any person deem
to be suspicious.
B. This policy allows police officers to
stop, question, and search any person
who they deem to be suspicious
C. This policy gives the persons in
authority to interrogate anyone
deemed to be suspicious
D. This policy allows the police to
search anyone anywhere deem to be
suspicious
33. The key to understanding Marx
and class conflict is how he defines
class. Which of the statements below
is the definition of class according to
Karl Marx?
A. it is defined by the ownership of
property
B. it is defined by the income of an
individual
C. it is defined by the status of a
person
D. it is defined by the interest of the
society
34. What do you call an economic
system in which private individuals or
businesses own capital goods and has
become the source of inequalities?
A. Communism
B. Socialism
C. Capitalism
D.Marxism
35. How does the alienation of labour
affect the workers?
A. worker produces more than what he
has to consume
B. worker produces equal to what he
has to consume
C. worker can’t produces but has to
consume
D. worker produces the less he has to
consume
36. Which of the following condition
shows how labour denies the fullness
of concrete of humanity?
A. when worker depends on things that
he has created but are not his
B. when workers receive wages
according to its service
C. when workers demand for a rest
day every month
D. when workers can enter and leave
the workforce anytime
37. What will be the result if the profit
of the company falls?
A. decrease in underemployment rate
B. increase in underemployment rate
C. decrease in unemployment rate
D. increase in unemployment rate
38. How do we determine the value of
labor power?
A. by the value of good consumed
within a day
B. by the value of the market basket of
a household
C. by the amount of labor necessary
for production
D. by the amount of the service
rendered for a day
39. Who was the student of George
Mead that coined the term “symbolic
interactionism?”
A. Herman Reynolds
B. Herbert Blumer
C. Erving Goffman
D. Max Weber
40. Who asserted that individuals act
according to their interpretation of the
meaning of their world?
A. Max Weber
B. Jean Jacques Rousseau
C. John Locke
D. Thomas Aquinas
41. What do you call the interpretation
of one’s behavior that form a social
bond?
A. definition of the society
B. definition of the event
C. definition of the situation
D. definition of the future
42. Which of the following situations
shows how theoretical concept plays
out within the social construct of race?
A. lighter skinned blacks and Latinos
are smarter than their darker skinned
counterparts
B. that white skinned Americans and
Caucasians are like other races
C. Aryan race are the superior in terms
of talents and intellect
D. lighter skinned blacks and Latinos
should live in Africa and not in any
countries
43. Why are our ideas deemed to be
nebulous?
A. because our ideas are vague and
different meanings could be made
depending on the event
B. because they are easy to
breakdown into small ideas and for
easy understanding
C. because they are difficult to
understand and needs to be confirmed
by the others in the situation
D. because ideas can only be
authentic if the perceive the idea
shows through action
44. In a symbolic interactionist view,
how do they interpret the love for
books of an individual?
A. they are well aware that books give
them guidance in dealing with their
problems in life
B. they understand that the books are
filled with information which they can
use to survive in this world
C. they learned that books are
important in the interactions in their
family, friends, school, or church
D. they learned that books will
equipped them with knowledge and
skills for work
45. Who founded the psychoanalysis
and the psychodynamic approach to
psychology?
A. John Locke
B. Thomas Hobbes
C. Erik Erikson
D. Sigmund Freud
46. What do you call the strategy that
the ego uses to protect itself from
anxiety?
A. free association
B. event assimilation
C. defense mechanism
D. self-prophecy
47. If you are a psychoanalyst, in what
way you can you help a person with
emotional problems?
A. let them write his/her problems and
bad experiences
B. tell them to keeps his/her feelings
and emotions to itself
C. convince them share their problems
to a plant
D. persuade them to hang into their
emotions and experiences
48. How can our Ego help strike a
balance between the basic urges, our
ideals, and reality?
A. by following whatever the demands
of superego
B. by listening to the demands of id
and superego
C. by controlling the demands of the Id
D. by letting the id controls the ego

49. What would happen if the ego

gives in to the id’s impulsive demand?
A. the id’s ideal self will represent
failure to the person
B. the superego will reward the person
by making them feel proud
C. the id will devise a realistic strategy
to obtain pleasure
D. the ego will be punished through
causing the feeling of guilt

50. Why is the id considered to be

primitive and instinctual part of the
mind?
A. it follows those norms that society
forbids
B. it is impulsive and operates on the
pleasure principle
C. it decides on what is right or wrong
D. it follows the society norms and
regulations