Multiple Choice: Encircle The Letter of The Best Answer
Multiple Choice: Encircle The Letter of The Best Answer
Multiple Choice: Encircle The Letter of The Best Answer
1. In this stage, one is adjusting to the happenings of his life and one needs to adjust to
understand everything especially in death.
A. Adolescence C. Late Maturity
B. Early Adulthood D. Middle Age
5. Which of the following statements best describe the developmental task of late
adulthood EXCEPT?
A. Adjusting to death of spouse
B. Meeting social and civic obligations
C. Establishing satisfactory living quarters
D. Helping teenage children to become happy and responsible adults
6. The developmental stage wherein it begins with rapid physical changes like dramatic
gains in height, in weight, changes in body contour, and development of sexual
characteristics such as enlargement of breasts, development of pubic and facial hair,
deepening of voice.
A. Adolescence C. Middle Childhood
B. Infancy D. Late Adulthood
7. Time for adjustment to decreasing strength and health, life review, retirement and
adjustment to new social roles
A. Adolescence C. Middle Childhood
B. Infancy D. Late Adulthood
9. The developmental stage wherein fundamental skills of reading, writing, and arithmetic
are mastered.
A. Early Childhood C. Middle Childhood
B. Middle Adulthood D. Late Adulthood
10. He defines developmental tasks as one that “arises at certain period in our life, the
successful achievement of which leads to happiness and success with later tasks while
failure leads to unhappiness, social disapproval, and difficulty with later task”.
A. Erick Ericson C. John Locke
B. John Santrosk D. Robert Havighurts
11. Which of following statement is NOT true about adolescence developmental task?
A. Adolescents have one foot in childhood and one foot in adulthood
B. Parents and adults have an important role to play in, and can have a positive impact
on, the lives of adolescents.
C. A developmental task represents our culture's definition of “normal" development at
different points in the life span.
D. Adults should not provide adolescents some room to make their own decisions and
to be accountable for the consequences of those decisions.
12. Which of the following statement could help you, teenager, to become a responsible
adolescent prepared for adult life EXCEPT.
A. Take care of your health and hygiene
B. Give in to temptations and bad acts sometimes.
C. Focus on your studies and do well in all your endeavors.
D. Establish open and good communication with parents and guardians.
13. Accepting one’s physique, achieving emotional independence of adults and preparing
for marriage and family life and preparing for an economic career are examples of what
developmental stage?
A. Adolescence C. Middle Adulthood
B. Early Adulthood D. Late Adulthood
Test 2.
Column A is composed of the developmental stages while column B is composed of the
developmental tasks according to Santrock. Match Column A with Column B.
COLUMN A COLUMN B
1. Middle Childhood
Developmental stage
2. Adolescence
Developmental stage
4. Later Maturity
Developmental stage
Achieving mature relations with both sexes
Achieving masculine or feminine social role
Adjusting to decreasing strength and health
Accepting one’s physique
Adjusting to retirement and reduced income
Achieving emotional independence of adults
Adjusting to death of spouse
Preparing for marriage and family life
Establishing relations with one’s own age group
Preparing for an economic career
Meeting social and civic obligations
Acquiring values and an ethical system to guide behavior
Establishing satisfactory living quarters
Desiring and achieving socially responsible behavior
5. Infancy and Early Childhood
Developmental stage
Learning to walk
Learning to take solid foods
Learning to talk
Learning to control the elimination of body wastes
Learning sex differences and sexual modesty
Acquiring concepts and language to describe social and physical reality
Readiness for reading
Learning to distinguish right from wrong and developing a conscience
6. Early Adulthood
Developmental stage
Selecting a male
Learning to live with a partner
Starting a family
Rearing children
Managing a home
Starting an occupation
Assuming civic responsibility
Test 5.
Put a check (/) beside those statements that are correct and an (X) beside those that are
wrong. If your answer is an X explain why.
X 1. Developmental tasks are only for the first 3 stages of human development.
/ 2. Failure of achieving developmental tasks in an earlier stage means failure for the
learner to master developmental task in the next level