TCAP Practice test 2 Flashcards
Marites has a child whose three-year-old, which of the following would be the mother’s best strategy for fostering the development of the fine motor skills prerequisite for writing?
A. Engage children in art activities such as finger painting
B. Engage children in activities such as role playing
C. Provide children with balls of different sizes from smallest to biggest and to play catch a ball.
A. Engage children in art activities such as finger painting
Among the four four cognitive stages of development proposed by Piaget, which stages are applied to school age children and adolescents?
A. Sensorimotor and Preoperational
B. Formal Operations and preoperational
C. Concrete Operational and Formal Operational
D. Sensorimotor and Concrete Operational
C. Concrete Operational and Formal Operational
Rex is preparing for the spelling test next week while reviewing, he found himself having trouble recalling the word “beautiful”. He thinks of a strategy to remember the correct spelling of the word by reminding himself that “beautiful” is like “bea-u-ti-ful”. Thus looking at the statement, we can conclude that the memory strategy used by Rex is…
A. Elaboration
B. Organization
C. Remembering
D. Working memory
A. Elaboration
Mother Anita never allowed herself to watch the TV program she liked because she let her child have the monopoly over the use of TV. In this situation given, which parenting style is being described?
A. Authoritarian
B. Authoritative
C. Neglectful
D. Permissive
D. Permissive
What do you think is the effect to children when parents are permissive?
A. children can develop fear of making mistakes
B. children are prevented from learning social norms
C. children will become competitive and assertive
D. children don’t develop an emotional connection
B. children are prevented from learning social norms
- The following are the effects of abuse in children, except…
A. children will have good connection with other children
B. children’s social and emotional development is often disrupted
C. children will permanently have physical damage
D. children will have delay or cognitive impairment
A. children will have good connection with other children
Tony still play with his toys, he sends them to sleep when the night comes and he still thinks that they have a life on their own. This is an example of…
A. Animism
B. Egocentrism
C. Intuitive Stage
D. Centration
A. Animism
The child asks for a 1 peso from his grandmother. The grandmother handed out 4pcs of 25 centavos. The child cried, and said that this is not 1 peso. This is an example of…
A. Animism
B. Conservation
C. Elaboration
D. Seriation
B. Conservation
A teacher’s job is to identify the child’s level of activity. Teacher Rose saw that Michael had difficulty with grade 3 multiplication. She decided to recommend Michael to take tutorial class on mathematics for 1 month. This is an example of:
A. Concrete Operational
B. Information Processing
C. Intuitive Thought substage
D. Zone of Proximal Development
B. Information Processing
Which is not an example of self-conscious emotions?
A. Anger
B. Pride
C. Shame
D. Guilt
A. Anger
When children thinks that justice and rules cannot be changed and that they are the only way to control people, the child’s moral reasoning is within.
A. Autonomous Morality
B. Conventional Stage
C. Heteronomous Morality
D. Post-Conventional
C. Heteronomous Morality
At 32 weeks of pregnancy, Ana was brought to the hospital due to pain in the back that could cause the baby to be born early than usual. She feared that the baby might be too early to be born. She gave birth to a baby girl but the baby was left in the hospital for incubation. The chance to survive even if the baby has not reached full term is called:
A. Age of Pregnancy
B. Age of Development
C. Age of Maturity
D. Age of Viability
D. Age of Viability
Which one is not an inherited disorder?
A. Phenylketonuria
B. Sickle Cell anemia
C. Huntington’s disease
D. Turner’s syndrome
D. Turner’s syndrome
Which condition is true of abnormal chromosomes?
A. children become infertile
B. children live only up to adulthood
C. children are born with mental retardation
C. children are born with mental retardation
When a behavior is shaped through rewards and punishment, we can say that this follows the theory of:
A. Ecological theory
B. Learning theory
C. Psychodynamic theory
D. System’s theory
B. Learning theory
A baby diagnosed with diabetes at an early age is under what category of abnormality?
A. Chromosomal abnormality
B. Gene-linked abnormality
B. Gene-linked abnormality
Which is not an example of Gross-motor skills?
A. Grasping
B. Rolling-over
C. Crawling
D. Posture
A. Grasping
Which of the following is true about human development?
A. Human development considers both maturation and learning
B. Development refers to the series of changes of an orderly coherent type toward the goal of maturity
C. Development is the gradual and orderly unfolding of the characteristics of the individuals as they go through the successive stages of growth
D. All of these statements
D. All of these statements
What does Social learning theory emphasize in the learning process that Operant Conditioning does not?
A. Role of Rewards
B. The influence of external stimuli
C. The importance of autonomic function
D. The importance of cognition
D. The importance of cognition
Ian has a feeling of inferiority, he always feels down and weak. In the theory of Erikson, which of the following explains Ian’s inferiority?
A. Ian’s effort during his elementary school years were deride, rebuff, and ignored by the parents
B. His parents curtailed his freedom and made him feel that exploring the environment pointless and a nuisance
C. He received inadequate and inconsistent care from the parents
D. Ian’s parents allowed him to explore and master new tasks
A. Ian’s effort during his elementary school years were deride, rebuff, and ignored by the parents
The significance of this reflex may help a baby cling to his/her mother. What is being described in the statement?
A. Babinski Reflex
B. Rooting Reflex
C. Moro Reflex
D. Sucking Reflex
C. Moro Reflex
An infant who is sucking his mother’s breast learns to suck his thumb when not being fed. This is an example of:
A. Assimilation
B. Accommodation
C. Organization
D. Equilibration
A. Assimilation
The declaration of lockdown due to the spread of COVID-19 has brought the displacement of many students’ learning ways. From full face-to-face to transitioning into online classes. This has brought about major adjustment in the student’s socialization, mode of learning, and mobility. This is an example of:
A. Normative age-graded influences
B. Normative history-graded influences
C. Non-normative life events.
B. Normative history-graded influences
A mother and a baby were having breakfast at the kitchen when the door opened and the father enters. The mother’s gaze was transferred from the baby to the father. The baby’s gaze shifted from the mother to the father as well.
A. Orienting
B. Sustained attention
C. Joint attention
D. Deferred imitation
C. Joint attention
A researcher would like to know if beauty and money spending have some connection, he hypothesized that the more beautiful the person, the more money he/she would spend in the highlighting his/her beauty. What kind of research design will used here?
A. Cohort
B. Correlation
C. Experimentation
D. Cross-sectional
B. Correlation
Nilo is born with problems in the lungs wherein mucus are building up which causes him to have difficulty breathing. What genetic disorder is being described?
A. Cystic Fibrosis
B. Sickle-cell anemia
C. Tay-sach’s disease
D/ Huntington’s disease
A. Cystic Fibrosis
The following statements are true of health which one is the least accurate in description:
A. Health is determined by both genetic and environmental factors.
B. Health involve gains in some aspect of development and losses in some areas of functioning.
C. Health is influenced by choices throughout the lifespan; thus, it is considered lifelong.
D. Health involves physical well-being, that is why medical doctors focuses on bodily functions as we age.
B. Health involve gains in some aspect of development and losses in some areas of functioning.
This type of play involves understanding the rules of the game and the use of Gross-motor skills
A. Practice play
B. Pretense play
C. Social play
D. Constructive play
A. Practice play
Which is not considered as Fluid Intelligence?
A. Sequential learning
B. Quantitative reasoning
C. Language comprehension
D. Inductive reasoning
C. Language comprehension
Ben has the knack to come up with new solutions to problems, he is displaying:
A. Analytic ability
B. Creative ability
C. Practical ability
C. Practical ability
Rita can already come up with mathematical solutions in her head, she has no need for paper and pen to be able to give the right answer.
A. Fuzzy Trace theory
B. Working memory
C. meta memory
D. Elaboration memory strategy
B. Working memory
These are genes that are responsible for personalities of people that made them to be enticing to other people as well as their community their personality types made them involve themselves in activities that are similar to their personality types.
A. Passive Gene
B. Evocative Gene
C. Active Gene
C. Active Gene
Korina did not carry the child in her womb for six months; instead, she sought the help of another woman’s womb to bear her child. This type of pregnancy is called:
A. Artificial Insemination
B. In-vitro Fertilization
C. Surrogacy
D. Assisted Reproductive technologies
C. Surrogacy
Which is not true of infants?
A. They smile when they see human faces
B. The pain cry is stimulated by hunger
C. Awareness is relevant in self-conscious emotions
D. Pointing is a sign of gesture
B. The pain cry is stimulated by hunger
Organization in Piaget’s theory means:
A. Adjusting oneself to fit in new stimuli
B. Shifting from one stage of thought to another
C. Mental Representations
D. Grouping of isolated behaviors and thoughts
D. Grouping of isolated behaviors and thoughts
