PSY 079 Session # 9

PSY 079 (Introduction to Psychology)
BS PSYCHOLOGY / SECOND YEAR

Session # 9
CHECK FOR UNDERSTANDING (20 minutes)

You will answer and rationalize this by yourself. This will be recorded as your quiz. One (1) point will be
given to correct
answer and another one (1) point for the correct rationalization. Superimpositions or erasures in you
answer/rationalization
is not allowed. You are given 20 minutes for this activity.
Multiple Choice
1. Which of the following is untrue about the changes that occur in brain development through
adolescence?
a. The pruning of the synapses reaches its final stages.
b. The brain now has more myelin and has formed more neural connections.
c. The brain waves work together which allows coordinated activity in the brain.
d. The frontal lobes are the first areas to fully mature and continue to mature even more until early
adulthood.
Answer: D.
Ratio: The frontal lobes are the last areas to fully develop.
2. Tina is 11 years old. One afternoon, she was playing “luksong tinik” with her cousins when they
noticed blood stain on her shorts. She worried and rushed back home and told her mother, who
bathed her immediately and explained to her why. The best explanation of Tina’s mother she would
understand given her age is most likely
a. You are now turning into a young woman.
b. You are transitioning from being a girl to a young woman. The blood that came out is an indication
that your body starts to mature, and that was your first menstruation.
c. Your ovaries released the sex hormone called estradiol which will sooner or later promote growth of
your breasts, widen your hips, and increase your body fat.
d. Your body is telling you that you might be sick and thus, we need to see a doctor. There might be an
infection inside your vagina.
Answer: B.
Ratio: Tina will become a young woman since she already experienced menstruation.
3. Arnold was born with a biology of a man. When he turned 16, he decided that he feels that he is
more of a woman than a man. What concept would best fit this scenario?
a. Sexual orientation
b. Transgender identity
c. Gender identity
d. Cis-gendered
Answer: C.
Ratio: As Arnold grows up, he realized that even he is man by birth, he is woman by heart.
4. What event marks the beginning of adolescence?
a. Puberty
b. Growth of body hair
c. Formal operations
d. All of the above marks the start of adolescence
Answer: A.
Ratio: This is the period when sexual maturation begins. There would be hormonal changes, and
preparing the body for reproduction and change of the body.
5. Erik Erikson has postulated a theory on psychosocial stages of development. Which of the following
is the major conflict during personality development in adolescence?
a. Generativity versus stagnation
b. Intimacy versus isolation
c. Identity versus identity confusion
d. Integrity versus despair
Answer: C.
Ratio: This stage occurs between the age of 12 and 18, during this age they explore their
independence and develop a sense of self.
6. Dana just turned 24 and wants to know what she wants to do for the rest of her life with respect to
making her time worthwhile. This is an example of what emerging identity formation?
a. Gender identity
b. Sexual orientation
c. Ethnic identity
d. Career identity
Answer: D.
Ratio: Dana find out what she would do in the future, she will plan out what would her life would be.
7. Which of the conflicts below considers love as its basic strength wherein it involves commitment,
passion, cooperation, competition, and friendship?
a. Intimacy versus isolation
b. Identity versus identity confusion
c. Integrity versus despair
d. Generativity versus stagnation
Answer: A.
Ratio: It is forming loving and intimate relationship with others.
8. As __________ intelligence is proven to decline beginning middle adulthood, __________

intelligence on the other hand strengthens.
a. crystallized, fluid
b. fluid, crystallized
c. more research is need
d. either A or B is correct due to the concept of neuroplasticity
Answer: B.
Ratio: Crystallized is to used knowledge acquired through past learning. On the other hand, Fluid is the
ability to solve the problem in a unique way.
9. In this stage of human development, many people experience significant loss of vision, hearing, or
both.
a. Early adulthood
b. Middle adulthood
c. Late adulthood
d. These impairments can occur at any of the above stages of life.
Answer: C.
Ratio: Late adulthood results in aging, it changes the body and results to brain changes.
10. What are the two virtues that will emerge if a person has successfully resolved the conflicts during
middle and late
adulthood?
a. care and wisdom
b. love and care
c. wisdom and love
d. love and fidelity
Answer: A.
Ratio: Care and wisdom is the key in dealing with problems which are vital to human affairs.

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BS PSYCHOLOGY / SECOND YEAR

CHECK FOR UNDERSTANDING (20 minutes)

8. As intelligence is proven to decline beginning middle adulthood,

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