PRELIM EXAMINATION

GE 1 UNDERSTANDING THE SELF

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I. MULTIPLE CHOICE
Direction: Read the following statement and write the letter of your chosen answer on the space provided for each
number.

_____1. He was the first philosopher who engages in systematic questioning about the self.
A. Socrates B. Plato C. Rene Descartes D. David Hume

_____2. He is an empiricist who believes that one can know only through the senses and experiences.
A. Socrates B. Plato C. Rene Descartes D. David Hume

_____3. He claimed in his dialogues that Socrates affirmed that the unexamined life is not worth living.
A. Socrates B. Plato C. Rene Descartes D. David Hume

_____4. He claims that there is so much that we should doubt since much of what we think and believe is not infallible, they may turn
out to be false.
A. Socrates B. Plato C. Rene Descartes D. David Hume

_____5. Every man is thus an end in himself and should never be treated merely as a means – as per the order of the Creator and the
natural order of things.
A. Augustine B. Immanuel Kant C. Gilbert Ryle D. Merleau Ponty

_____6. He insisted that body and mind are so intertwined from one another. One cannot find any experience that is not an embodied
experience.
A. Augustine B. Immanuel Kant C. Gilbert Ryle D. Merleau Ponty

_____7. For him, what truly matters is the behavior that a person manifests in his day-today life.
A. Augustine B. Immanuel Kant C. Gilbert Ryle D. Merleau Ponty

_____8. He primarily concerned with how both psychological and social factors affect the development of individuals.
A. Rene Descartes B. Thomas Aquinas C. Sigmund Freud D. Erik Erikson

_____9. The body is bound to die on earth and the soul is to anticipate living eternally in communion with God.
A. Augustine B. Thomas Aquinas C. Sigmund Freud D. Erik Erikson

_____10. He asserts that the human psyche or personality is structured into 3 parts.
A. Augustine B. Thomas Aquinas C. Sigmund Freud D. Erik Erikson

_____11. He said that indeed, man is composed of two parts: matter and form.
A. Augustine B. Thomas Aquinas C. Sigmund Freud D. Erik Erikson

_____12. It refers to the common stuff that makes up everything in the universe. (Thomas Aquinas)
A. Matter B. Body C. Form D. Mind

_____13. It refers to the essence of the substance of things. (Thomas Aquinas)

A. Body B. Form C. Mind D. Body

_____14. Knowing one’s own virtue is necessary and can be learned.

A. Socrates B. Plato C. Rene Descartes D. David Hume

_____15. These are the factors in the development of a person which includes all the person around us, like our family members,
relatives, friends, teachers or professors, and even strangers, that might create an impression to you or affects your actions
and thoughts in life.
A. Hereditary Factors B. Person-volition C. Environmental Factors D. Social Factor
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_____16. He posits that self is nothing else but a bundle of impressions.
A. Socrates B. Plato C. Rene Descartes D. David Hume
_____17. The inclination of a person creates a social construct which sets him apart to others.
A. Hereditary B. Person-volition C. Environmental Factors Social Factor
Factors factors
_____18. These are the factors in the development of the person that includes biological changes and events, such as growth in
height, puberty, that usually affects the physical characteristics of a person.
A. Hereditary B. Person-volition C. Environmental Factors D. Social Factor
Factors factors
_____19. The factors in the development of a person that includes the environmental structure, events, and such, which might give an
impact on how a person could grow in all the aspects of his/her life.
A. Hereditary B. Person-volition C. Environmental Factors D. Social Factor
Factors factors
_____20. He introduces the ________to highlights that the people whom, a person interacts with become a mirror in which he or she
views himself or herself.
A. Looking-Glass B. Mirror C. Three Stages Process D. Theory of the social
Self self
_____21. A person develops his/her characteristics biologically (something that has developed starting from the birth of the child),
A. Nature B. Nurture C. Identity D. Self
_____22. A person develops his/her characteristics through the external factors, such as the environment and the society (family,
friends, relatives, etc.).
A. Nature B. Nurture C. Identity D. Self
_____23. These are “qualities, characteristics, beliefs, opinions, etc., that make a person unique from others.” These is what is
distinguishable by others, or what they perceive to us through our actions.
A. Nature B. Nurture C. Identity D. Self
_____24. It is the “person of himself/herself,” meaning, it is what the others didn’t see in you, because this is personal character; this is
what makes up a person.
A. Nature B. Nurture C. Identity D. Self
_____25. They suggest that the self does not depend on biological predispositions; rather, it is a product of social interaction.
A. Mead and B. Jean Baudrillard C. Rene Descartes D. David Hume
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II. IDENTIFICATION
Direction: Read and identify the following philosophers. Write your answer on the space provided before each number.
(2points each)

______________________________1. Know Yourself

______________________________2. The self in as immortal soul

______________________________3. I think, therefore I am

______________________________4. The soul is the essence of life

______________________________6. The self is the brain

______________________________7. The self is a way people behave

______________________________8. The self is consciousness

______________________________9. The self is multilayered

______________________________10. We construct the self

III. MACHING TYPE

Direction: Match the statement from column A. to B. Write your answer on the space provided before each number.

COLUMN A COLUMN B
_____1. Governed by the “reality principle.” A. Conscious self
_____2. Nonphysical ideas B. World of forms
_____3. All knowledge is derived from experience C. Unconscious self
_____4. Aristotle called the ideal as____ D. World of sense
_____5. Reality E. Rationalism
_____6. “Pleasure principle” F. Maurice Merleau-Ponty
_____7. Aristotle called phenomena as G. Essence
_____8. Explains self from the standpoint of what is ideal H. Precocious self
and true, and what not is rooted with senses. I. Empiricism
_____9. Phenomenology of Perception J. Matter
_____10. Located between conscious and K. Self
unconscious part of the self. L. Philosophy
_____11. employs the inquisitive mind to discover the M. Preparatory Stage
ultimate causes, reasons, and principles of everything N. Game stage
_____12. It is defined to as “a unified being, essentially O. Play Stage
connected to consciousness, awareness, and agency
_____13. Children are just preparing for role-taking
_____14. Children start to view themselves
in relation to others.
_____15. The self is now present.

IV. ENUMERATION

Direction: Enumerate the following. In any order

CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY MULTILAYERED SELF

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MODERN PHILOSOPHER
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