Prelim Exam in Gen.Ed.

2
(Understanding The Self)
A. Y. 2019-2020

Name: __________________________________ Date: ___________________________

Section: __________________________________ Score: ___________________________

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.

Mastering others is strength; Mastering yourself is true power.”

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

TEST I-MULTIPLE CHOICE

Direction: Encircle the letter of the correct answer. (1 point each)

1. The distinct identity which is summation of the experiences of an individual.

a. Us b. Self c. Ourselves
2. It is a process of learning, re-learning an unlearning the lessons that we acquire from the
teachings of life.
a. Search for our true identity b. Life learning c.Core being
3. A continuous flux, an unending adventure onto the reams of life’s complexities.
a. Search for our true identity b. Life learning c.Core being
4. The traits or descriptions that one sees in the ‘self’ similar to that perceived by the
significant others.
a. The Arena b. Facade c. Blind Spot
5. The traits that the subject is unaware of but the significant others claim to be possessed
by the subject.
a. The Arena b. Facade c. Blind Spot
6. The traits that are known to the ‘self’ but not to the significant others.
a. Unknown b. Facade c. Blind Spot
7. Needs to be discovered in the individual ‘self’ as we go through the process of discovering
our unique identity.
a. Unknown b. Facade c. Blind Spot
8. A classical Greek philosopher and the founder of Academy in Athens, the first Institution
of higher learning in the western world.
a. Socrates b. Plato c. Saint Augustine
9. A classical Greek philosopher and a pioneer in Western philosophy that introduced the
Socratic problem also known as Socratic question.
a. Socrates b. Plato c. Saint Augustine
10. Who was the Greek philosopher stated this quote “An unexamined life is not worth
living.”
a. Socrates b. Plato c. Saint Augustine
11. Who was the Greek philosopher stated that the ‘psyche’ or the ‘mind’ is comprised of
three elements.
a. Socrates b. Plato c. Saint Augustine
12. Who was the Christian theologian and philosopher to have greatly contributed to the
progress of Western Christianity through his writings?
a. Saint Augustine b. Rene Descartes c. John Locke
13. Who was the Father of Liberalism?
a. Saint Augustine b. Rene Descartes c. John Locke
14. Who was the Father of Modern Western Philosophy?
a. Saint Augustine b. Rene Descartes c. John Locke
15. Who was the philosopher born in Prussia and a great contributor in modern western
philosophy?
a. Immanuel Kant b. Sigmeud Freud c. Gilbert Ryle

TEST II- FILL IN THE BLANK (1 point each)

Saint Augustine identified the two-fold process comprised of 16.______________ leading to 17.
______________.
Understanding of the self and the formation of identity is achieved through the process of
18.__________________ or 19. _______________.
Descartes developed the 20.________________________ which holds that mental acts determine
physical acts.
Rene Descartes described the mind as the 21._____________________ which possesses a will.
22.____________ pointed onto the relation from such insight begun his quest for true
knowledge and stated his very brilliant principle which state that 23. ____________ which is
24. _______________________.
The essence of your self makes you a 25.__________________,engaged in all forms of mental
operations determinant of being a human with a distinct persona.
John Locke (1632-1704) was a prominent thinker during the 26. __________________.
It was Locke who developed the concept of 27. ___________________.
Locke pointed onto the theory that at birth, the 28.___________ is a blank slate without innate
ideas, and it is experience that provides us knowledge provided by 29.__________________ and
30. _______________.
TEST III-TRUE OR FALSE (2 points each)

___________Kant said that every person has an inner and outer self which comprises the
consciousness.
___________Sigmeund Freud was a British philosopher, a behaviorist who coined the phrase
“the ghost in the machine.”
___________Gilbert Ryle was a neurologist from Austria and established psychoanalysis.
___________Sigmeund Freud who stated that there are three components in the mind (ID, EGO
and SUPEREGO) that interact to produce the individual persona.
___________Maurice Merleau Ponty stated that “A person therefore lives through two collateral
histories, one consisting of what happens in and to his body, and other consisting of what
happens in and to his mind. The first is public, the second private.”
___________Gilbert Ryle stated that every human being has both a physical body and a non-
physical mind which are ordinarily “harnessed together” while we are alive.
___________Paul Montgomery Churchland argued that ‘nothing but matter exist’ which also
known as materialism.
___________Maerleau-Ponty wrote the book Phenomenologie de La Perception in 1945.
___________Maerleau-Ponty expounded his thesis on ‘The Primacy of Perception’ where he
revealed how the body is central to one’s perception.
___________Paul Churchland said that “there is harmony between what we aim at and what is
given, between intention and performance.”

Prepared by:

Aishah B. Sangcopan, LPT

Instructor
ANSWERS:
TEST II
16. SELF-PRESENTATION
17. SELF-REALIZATION
18. INTROSPECTION
19. SELF-ANALYSIS
20. CARTESIAN PHILOSOPHY
21. INTELLECTUA;L SUBSTANCE
22. DESCARTES
23. COGITO ERGO SUM
24. I THINK, THEREFORE I AM
25. THINKING THING
26. AGE OF REASON
27. TABULA RASA
28. MIND
29. SENSORY EXPERIENCES
30. REFLECTIONS

TEST III
1. TRUE
2. FALSE ANS. GILBERT RYLE
3. FALSE ANS. SIGMEUND FREUD
4. TRUE
5. FALSE ANS. GILBERT RYLE
6. TRUE
7. TRUE
8. TRUE
9. TRUE
10. FALSE ANS. MAERLEAU-PONTY