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1
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Self-centered and self-concerned approach toward others.

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Narcissism

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What stage of Piaget’s Cognitive Stage is Early Childhood?

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Preoperational Stage

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Chemical substances secreted by glands.

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Hormones

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TRUE or FALSE: When children are securely attached with their parents at this stage, children are more likely to have lower levels of anxiety, depression and internalized symptoms.

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TRUE

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A person who is flexible in regard to the gender with which they identify. Gender identity may change over time.

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Gender Fluid

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SITUATIONAL:
Everyday, Rita thinks of ways on how to pick on Reese. She feels good whenever, Reese cries or humiliated in public. She feels more powerful whenever somebody suffers because of her.
Reese on the other hand is very active in church feeding program. She spends her weekend mornings doing such despite her busy schedule.

Identify the kind of behavior that the girls are manifesting.

[Choose 2]
- Rita is having a transformation
- Reese is manifesting prosocial behavior
- Rita is manifesting antisocial behavior
- Reese is having a moral dilemma

A
  • Reese is manifesting prosocial behavior
  • Rita is manifesting antisocial behavior
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TRUE or FALSE: Puberty starts earlier to girls than boys.

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TRUE

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TRUE or FALSE: Behavioral disorders are more common among older adolescents than younger adolescents.

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FALSE

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Characterized by being alert, mentally present and cognitively flexible.

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Mindfulness

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TRUE or FALSE: Current research are proving that children in their early childhood are not really purely egocentric as what Piaget suggested, rather, they care for other people.

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TRUE

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TRUE or FALSE: According to research, boys who were consistently high in antisocial behavior across childhood, would have high antisocial behavior in adulthood.

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TRUE

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The following are risk taking behaviors in adolescence except ___.

  • Violence
  • Sexual Activities
  • Substance Use and Abuse
  • Eating Disorder
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  • Eating Disorder
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Refers to psychological distress that results from an incongruence between one’s sex assigned at birth and ones gender identity.

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Gender Dysphoria

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TRUE or FALSE: Middle and Late Childhood is a time of excellent health.

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TRUE

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TRUE or FALSE: There is a difference in intelligence in Math for girls and boys.
Also, boys are better in visuospatial skills and verbal skills while girls are better in school achievement and writing skills.

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FALSE

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TRUE or FALSE: Convergent thinking is characterized by having many possible creative answers to the same questions while Divergent thinking produces one correct answer and can be tested by standardized intelligence test.

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FALSE

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TRUE or FALSE: Piaget believes that children think and understand at an appropriate age.
Vygotsky on the other hand, thinks that children think and understand things through social interaction or with a little help or guidance.

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TRUE

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Growth patterns vary from person to person. Two of the most important contributors to height differences are:

[Choose 2]
- Sleep
- Nutrition
- Ethnic Origin
- Vitamins

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  • Nutrition
  • Ethnic Origin
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The highest level of the frontal lobes involved in reasoning, decision making and self-control not fully developed in adolescence.

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Prefrontal Cortex

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TRUE OR FALSE: Males are more likely to attempt suicide but females are more likely to complete the suicide.

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FALSE

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TRUE OR FALSE: Brain growth slows down during early childhood

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TRUE

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Describes people with reproductive anatomy that don’t fit the definitions of male and female.

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Intersex

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23
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SITUATIONAL:
5 year old Tina always say to her playmate the she is right and eventually fights with them because everybody wanted to be right. This is an example of ___

A

Egocentrism

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TRUE OR FALSE: Research indicates that spirituality/religiosity was positively related to well-being, self-esteem, conscientiousness, agreeableness and openness.

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TRUE

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The most common type of cancer in children.

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Leukemia

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26
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This person developed the Intelligence Quotient (IQ)

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William Stern

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TRUE OR FALSE: Those who were abused during childhood have higher likelihood to abuse their own children.

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TRUE

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TRUE OR FALSE: Adolescent alcohol and cigarette consumption has shown sizable decline in recent years.

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TRUE

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Difficulty in handwriting.

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Dysgraphia

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30
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[Identify the correct Stage of Moral Development according to Kohlberg]

SITUATIONAL:
Ven feels concerned if other people would regard them as bad. They try to do things so that they would have a good imporession.

A

Interpersonl Normative Morality

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31
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[Identify the correct Stage of Moral Development according to Kohlberg]

SITUATIONAL:
Jack follow the instruction given by his teacher. Even if he seemed uncomfortable, he still gives importance as to what the teacher says.

A

Heteronomous Morality

32
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[Identify the correct Stage of Moral Development according to Kohlberg]

SITUATIONAL:
Nathan respects and follow the rules set by the school dormitory. He feels agitated if ever some of his dormmates are trying to circumvent such rules that keeps order in their place.

A

Social System Morality

33
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[Identify the correct Stage of Moral Development according to Kohlberg]

SITUATIONAL:
Nora listens to both her friends who are arguing before deciding to take sides.

A

Instrumental Morality

34
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[Identify the correct Stage of Moral Development according to Kohlberg]

SITUATIONAL:
Vince constantly checks on ethical guidelines in doing his work. He feels uncomfortable if ever his principles are compromised.

A

Social Contract Orientation Stage

35
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CHILDHOOD AND ADULT ATTACHMENT STYLES:
Secure —-> _____

A

Autonomous

36
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CHILDHOOD AND ADULT ATTACHMENT STYLES:
Avoidant —-> _____

A

Dismissing

37
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CHILDHOOD AND ADULT ATTACHMENT STYLES:
Disorganized —-> _____

A

Unresolved

38
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CHILDHOOD AND ADULT ATTACHMENT STYLES:
Anxious —-> _____

A

Preoccupied

39
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More common emotional disorder among older adolescents

A

Anxiety Disorders

40
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[Identify the Behavioral Disorder]

Defy authority figures. Always wanting to seek revenge.

A

Oppositional Defiant Disorder

41
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[Identify the Behavioral Disorder]

Adults who are comfortable violating the law. Unbothered with the feelings of others.

A

Antisocial Personality Disorder

42
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[Identify the Behavioral Disorder]

Often violate rules and norms. Consistent pattern of aggressive behavior. among children and adolescents.

A

Conduct Disorder

43
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TRUE OR FALSE: Children pay attention to what is relevant rather than what is salient or stands out in processing information.

A

FALSE

44
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Theory of mind is developed around what age?

A

7+ years

45
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[Identify the form of memory]

SITUATIONAL:
Jaz remembers the OTP sent through sms without rehearsing it enough to have it typed.
After the 2nd transaction, he seemed hesitant if he remembers the first OTP.
This is what you call ____

A

Short Term Memory

46
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The leading cause of death in adolescence is __

A

Unintentional Injuries

47
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Which among the following are most likely to be affected by bullying?
- Girls and JHS Students
- Boys and Middle School Students
- Girls and Midde School Students
- Boys and JHS Students

A
  • Boys and Middle School Students
48
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TRUE OR FALSE: More research is needed to establish adult attachment styles but many research has already been made on infants learning style.

A

TRUE

49
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TRUE OR FALSE: The average age of menarche has declined, meaning that girls are having their menstrual period earlier than the previous generation.

A

TRUE

50
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Stage (of school) where children are more active than other stages.

A

Preschool

51
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Storm and stress view of adolescence; a turbulent time charged with conflict and mood swings was proposed by ___

A

G. Stanley Hall

52
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TRUE OR FALSE: Based on studies, boys are more physically aggressive than girls. Girls tends to manipulate relationship during childhood but not so during adolescence.
Boys are also more prosocial than girls.

A

FALSE

53
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Both antisocial and prosocial behavior are processes of ____.

A

Emotion Regulation

54
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The heightened self-consciousness of adolescents is called ____.

A

Adolescent Egocentrism

55
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The presence of positive and masculine and feminine characteristics of a person that makes them mentally healthy is called ___.

A

Androgyny

56
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The recommended hours for sleep for early childhood is…?

A

11-13 Hours

57
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It increases the speed at which information travels through the nervous system.

A

Myelination

58
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TRUE OR FALSE: Children with high self-esteem do better in school and show higher initiative.

A

FALSE

59
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Psychosis commonly emerges in ________.

A

Middle and Late Adulthood

60
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Common psychological disorder among adolescence includes the following except ___.
- ADHD
- Schizophrenia
- Conduct Disorder

A
  • Schizophrenia
61
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TRUE OR FALSE: Child Neglect is one kind of Child Abuse.

A

TRUE

62
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A term that can be used by people who do not describe themselves or their genders as fitting into the categories of a man or woman.

A

Nonbinary

63
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TRUE OR FALSE: Self-concept is domain specific evaluations of the self. For example: ‘I’m a good person’.
While Self-esteem is global evaluation of self. For example: ‘I’m good in Chemistry’

A

FALSE

64
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[Identify the form of memory]

Information processing increases with age during middle and late childhood where their knowledge and expertise about a content area improves.

A

Long Term Memory

65
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What are the components of moral personality?

[Choose 3]
- Moral Exemplars
- Moral Values
- Moral Character
- Moral Identity
- Good Moral
- Moral Behavior

A
  • Moral Exemplars
  • Moral Character
  • Moral Identity
66
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TRUE OR FALSE: Bulimia nervosa is harder to detect since the patient usually maintains a normal body weight.

A

TRUE

67
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Assigned at birth based on physiological characteristics of being male or female.

A

Sex

68
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SITUATIONAL:

Jeff is teaching his son how to bike. First, he holds on and eventually when he is ready, he lets go and let the child ride alone. This is an example of ___.

A

Scaffolding

69
Q

Select all that is true based on 2023 statistics:

[Choose 2]
- There are more functional literacy rate among women and yet more are unemployed compared to men.
- Globally, there were more females compared to men.
- Unpaired family workers are typically men.
- There were more men who are underemployed though there were more men employed.

A
  • There are more functional literacy rate among women and yet more are unemployed compared to men.
  • There were more men who are underemployed though there were more men employed.
70
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TRUE OR FALSE: Girls who mature early are more likely to smoke, drink, be depressed, have eating disorder. They usally have older friends and struggle for earlier independence.

A

TRUE

71
Q

Educating a child with special education needs full time in the regular classroom is called ___.

A

Inclusion

72
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Overweight young children are usually caused or influenced by all of the following except for ___.
- Social Media
- Serious Health Problems
- Caregivers’ Behavior

A
  • Social Media
73
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TRUE OR FALSE: Most children from gay or lesbian families have a homosexual orientation.

A

FALSE

74
Q

The leading causes of death in US children are the following except ____.
- Congenital Malformations
- Child Abuse
- Chromosomal Abnormalities
- Accidents

A
  • Child Abuse
75
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According to WHO, Suicide is the ___ leading cause of death in older adolescents (15-19 year old).

A

4th

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