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General Education LET QUESTIONS Week 3

The document provides 20 multiple choice questions about concepts in child development and learning theories from Jean Piaget, Erik Erikson, Urie Bronfenbrenner, Gestalt psychology principles, and Edward Thorndike. The questions cover topics like Piaget's stages of cognitive development, object permanence, Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory, Gestalt laws of perceptual organization, Freud's psychosexual stages, Thorndike's laws of learning, and intrinsic motivation.

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General Education LET QUESTIONS Week 3

The document provides 20 multiple choice questions about concepts in child development and learning theories from Jean Piaget, Erik Erikson, Urie Bronfenbrenner, Gestalt psychology principles, and Edward Thorndike. The questions cover topics like Piaget's stages of cognitive development, object permanence, Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory, Gestalt laws of perceptual organization, Freud's psychosexual stages, Thorndike's laws of learning, and intrinsic motivation.

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General Education LET QUESTIONS

1. Eric, seven-year-old girl, knows how to arrange objects or things according to weight,
shape, color or size. Joey as a young learner has already developed which concept
according to Jean Piaget?

A. Conservation
B. Decentering
C. Reversibility
D. Seriation
Answer: D

2. When John was 5 months is view of the train was blocked, he did not search for it.
Now that he is 9 months old, he does search for it, reflecting his development of the
concept of:

A. object permanence
B. animism
C. assimilation
D. conservation
Answer: A

3. A child who can solve abstract problems in logical fashion is in the stage.

A. sensorimotor
B. preoperational
C. concrete
D. formal
Answer: D

4. The Piagetian stage characterized by the ability to use symbols and words to think,
intuitive problem-solving, but thinking limited by rigidity, centration, and egocentrism.

A. Concrete operations
B. Formal operations
C. pre-operational
D. Sensorimotor
Answer: C

5. This is the support or assistance that lets the child accomplish a task he cannot
accomplish independently.

A. scaffolding
B. prior knowledge
C. schema
D. schemata
Answer: A

6. On learning deficiencies, what is known as a learning disability in reading?

A. Dyslexia
B. Dyscalculia
C. Dysgraphia
D. Dyspepsia
Answer: A

7. "Do not cheat. Cheating does not pay. If you do, you cheat yourself" says the voice
from within you. In the context of Freud's theory, which is/are at work?
A. Id
B. Superego
C. Ego
D. Id and Ego interact
Answer: B

8. Teachers are very much aware of the need of motivation before discussing the main
lesson. This is anchored on which of Thorndike's laws of learning?

A. Law of Readiness
B. Law of Exercise
C. Law of Effect
D. Law of Recency
Answer: A

9. Sexual urges remain repressed and children mostly interact with same-sex peers.
These instances are under the stage.

A. Anal
B. Latency
C. Phallic
D. Genital
Answer: B

10. Which of these does not belong to Bronfenbrenner's microsystem as a factor of


human development?
A. Family
B. School
C. Peers
D. Laws
Answer: D

11. Which is an example of a child's mesosystem that does not work favorably for the
child?

A. The child is not in good terms with his peers.


B. There is so much hostility at home.
C. The child's parent and teacher are at odds.
D. The child is sickly.
Answer: C

12. A Filipino Masters degree graduate is surprised to know that he cannot proceed to
the doctorate program applied for in Louvain, Belgium, because of the short year basic
education. Based on Bronfenbrenner's theory, to which system in environment can this
be attributed?

A. Mesosystem
B. Exosystem
C. Chronology system
D. Macrosystem
Answer: D

13. States that in all possible organizations that could be perceived from a visual
stimulus, the one that will most likely occur is the one that possesses the best, simplest
and most stable form.

A. similarity
B. closure
C. proximity
D. pragnanz
Answer: D

14. This law states that things that are near each other are tend to be grouped together.

A. Law of continuity
B. Law of proximity
C. Law of similarity
D. Law of closure
Answer: B

15. This law states that incomplete figures tend to be perceived as complete.

A. Law of continuity
B. Law of proximity
C. Law of similarity
D. Law of closure
Answer: D

16. According to the information processing theory, information moves from long-term
memory. to working memory, to ____.

A. sensory memory
B. short-term memory
C. episodic memory
D. permanent memory
Answer: A

17. Which is true of sensory register?


A. processes information
B. encodes information for future retrieval
C. is the input from the environment
D. is the last stage of human memory
Answer: C

18. Of Piaget's cognitive concepts, which refers to the process of fitting new
experiences to a previously created structure or schema?

A. assimilation
B. schema
C. accommodation
D. equilibrium
Answer: A

19. Edward Thorndike's Connectionism Theory of Learning came up with three primary
laws. Which law/s states that when a connection between stimulus and response is
strengthened, learning is satisfying: when weakening, learning is annoying?

A. Law of Exercise
B. Law of Effect
C. Law of Readiness
D. All of the above
Answer: B

20. A student who loves reading Science-Based books and is encourage by parents to
do so would usually be more scientific-minded and logical. Which phrase proves that
the student is intrinsically motivated to read?
a. Encourage by parents
b. Loves reading science-based books
c. Be more scientific-minded
d. Be more logical
Answer: B

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