Kolehiyo ng Pantukan

Juan A. Sarenas Campus, Kingking, Pantukan, Davao de Oro

2nd EXAMINATION in Science, Technology, and Society

2nd Term, 1st Semester, SY 2022-2023

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General Instructions: Read each item carefully. Provide what is asked. Avoid erasures.

Test I. Multiple Choice (1pt each)

Directions: Choose the BEST answer. Write the letter of your choice on the space provided.

1. Which of the following is the main goal and reward of Human flourishing?
A. appreciation B. happiness C. self-direction D. all of the choices

2. Which of the statements best distinguish good life from human flourishing?
A. Humans flourished in the innovation of technology to satisfy them while good life finds happiness
that best completes their life like love of friends and family.
B. Human flourishes by discovering high end technology that would give happiness while good life, live
simply and is to live simply and are contented on what they have.
C. Both A and B.
D. None of the choices

3. An effort to achieve self-actualization and fulfillment within the context of a larger community of
individuals, each with the right to pursue his or her own such efforts. This is .
A. Human Flourishing B. Positivity C. Faith D. Holiness

4. In conducting research, formulating the hypothesis is one of the steps. Ideally, what is the main goal to
count the research as significant?
A. to reject the result C. to reject the null hypothesis
B. to accept the result D. to accept the null hypothesis

5. This is the part of the research where other researchers would want to broaden the study.
A. Hypothesis C. Data Gathering Procedure
B. Results and Discussion D. Data Analysis

6. As long as an ideology is not proven to be wrong and can best explain a phenomenon over alternative
theories, the said ideology must be accepted. This falls under the .
A. Falsification Theory B. Verification Theory C. Scientific Theory D. Flourishing Theory

7. A group of scholars who believed that only those which can be observed should be regarded as
meaningful, reject those which cannot be directly accessed as meaningless.
A. Hedonism B. The Eudaimons C. Vienna Circle D. School of Aristotle

8. This idea considers those results which are measurable and experiments which are repeatable.
A. Falsification Theory B. Verification Theory C. Scientific Theory D. Flourishing Theory

9. On the issue about the capacity of nature to accommodate us, this artist suggested that developed
countries should not push forth more growth but instead adopt “de-development” policies.
A. Paul Fayerabend B. Karl Popper C. Martin Heidegger D. Joseph Hickel

10. Which of the following words is not a plausible translation of eudaimonia?

A. Happiness B. Virtue C. Success D. Fulfillment

11. Which of the following, according to Aristotle, is the highest pursuit in life?
A. The pursuit of pleasure C. The pursuit of Plato’s Form of Good
B. The pursuit of honors D. The pursuit of rational contemplation

12. Which of the following is always an end in itself?

A. Happiness B. Virtue C. Intelligence D. Honor
13. They began to use fire to cook by chipping one flint over the other to produce spark without realizing
the laws of friction and heat.
A. Homo Erectus B. Homo Sapiens C. Homo Habilis D. H. Heidelbergensis

14. One of the several excavations in different parts of Europe of miniature statues is a rudimentary
carving of a voluptuous woman out of ivory or stone. This is so-called .
A. Athena B. Wedge C. Venus D. Liberty Statue

15. He identified that technology can either be perceived as first; a means to achieve man’s end and
constitutes human activity.
A. Heidegger B. Plato C. Socrates D. Aristotle

16. Technē and logos of Technology means _____.

A. craft & study B. art & study C. craft & art D. art & word

17. How does technology give people happiness and pleasure?

A. It allows people to listen to good music wherever they are.
B. It allows people to surf and play games anytime, anywhere.
C. It allows people to communicate with loved ones anywhere in the world.
D. All of the choices.

18. According to Kantar media, 92% of urban homes and 70% of rural homes own at least one television,
what does this imply?
A. Almost all Filipinos use television.
B. Filipinos love to watch television during free time or any time of the day when they have nothing
important to do.
C. Filipinos are believed to have this big fascination for television.
D. All of the above.

19. Which of the following is NOT considered as "celebrities" in the field of technology?
A. computers B. rice cookers C. mobile phones D. television

20. It has 18 lines of resolution that send images through wires with the aid of a rotating metal disk.
A. electric binoculars B. electric microscope C. electric guitar D. electric telescope

21. Who created a new system of television by using the cathode ray tube in addition to the mechanical
scanner system?
A. Alexander Graham Bell & Martin Cooper C. Charles Darwin & Nicolaus Copernicus
B. Alan Archibald Campblell-Swinton & Boris Rosing D. vPaul Gotlieb Nipkow & Charles Babbage

22. This technological tool is mainly used as a platform for advertisement and information dissemination.
A. Mobile Phones B. Television C. Computer D. Laptop

23. Which of the following is the best reason why some prefer laptops over personal computers?
A. this allow them to play with comfort and convenience
B. the availability of mouse and keyboard
C. it is portable and easy to bring to different places
D. it has small screen that is comfortable to the user

24. Which of the following is NOT part of the feature of the mobile phones that laptops have?
A. camera B. movie player C. calculator D. none of the choices

25. Which of the following shows one of the advantages of technology?

A. Technology is the set of tools.
B. Technology is the study on how humans should follow ethical standards of society.
C. Technology is a product, or a process being used to make a task easier.
D. Technology is the knowledge, facts, and methods necessary to discover means.

26. DESIRE has following objectives, EXCEPT

A. to create a reference architecture for mobile manipulation.
B. to promote the convergence of technologies through integration into a common technology platform
C. to achieve a technological edge toward attaining key functions and components that are suited for
everyday use
 D. to compete pre-competition research and development activities

27. Which of the following is NOT expected for a DESIRE to perform?

A. Clear up the kitchen table C. Clear up this room
B. Fill the dishwasher D. Fill the container with water

28. Isaac Asimov formulated rules and characteristics of a good robot. One of which is “A robot may not
injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. This is law
.
A. One B. Two C. Three D. Four

29. In the field of robotics, this excludes the human-robot interaction.

A. Partial Autonomy B. Semi-Autonomy C. Full Autonomy D. None of the choices

30. Which of the following statements regarding the noticeable contrast between the use of technology
then and now is FALSE?
A. more women die during birth C. most of the diseases are treatable
B. access to education to more individuals D. determine the value of the country’s goods

31. It is the ongoing extinction of the Earth's flora and fauna due to human activities occurred as early as
between 100,000 to 200,000 up to present.
A. Holocene Extinction C. Sixth Extinction
B. Anthropocene Extinction D. All of the above

32. This man viewed that change is so perplexing that it can only make sense if there are two realities: the
world of forms and the world of matter. This man is .
A. Heidegger B. Plato C. Socrates D. Aristotle

33. Which of the following shows one of the advantages of technology?

A. Life has become easy through science and technology.
B. By means of modern technology, terrorist use it for destructive purposes.
C. By the use of technology, man is doing illegal things.
D. Natural beauty is decreasing due to the development of modern technology.

34. This is the main reason why humans back then overhunt and overfish common prey.
A. Growth Population B. Corruption C. Teenage Pregnancy D. Poverty

35. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except such orders would injure the human
being. This is what law of Asimov?
A. Law One B. Law Two C. Law Three D. Law Zero

36. This paved way for the invention of several developments by our early ancestors.
A. Poverty B. Population C. Curiosity D. Survival

37. A collaborative project called DESIRE was launched on .

A. October 1, 2004 B. October 1, 2005 C. October 1, 2006 D. October 1, 2007

38. Which is NOT true about modern technology?

A. it is the advancement of old technology with new additions and modifications.
B. Modern technology’s way of revealing as a way of challenging forth.
C. Modern technology challenges nature by extracting something from it and transforming, storing, and
distributing it.
D. Modern technology is a form of poiesis.

39. According to him, every human person aspires for an end. This end is happiness.
A. Heidegger B. Plato C. Socrates D. Aristotle

40. This means indifferent.

A. apatheia B. agate C. eudaimonia D. poiesis

Test II – Identification (1pt each)

Directions: Choose among the school of thoughts that best describes the following.
1. Matter makes humans attain happiness. (M)
 2. See the end goal of life in acquiring pleasure. (H)
3. The 1st philosopher of this thought is the atomist of Greece. (M)
4. Catholics believe in the existence of heaven. (T)
5. Freedom of man to carve his own destiny and to legislate his own laws. (H)
6. Having the value to endure pain or hardship without complaint. (S)
7. Pleasure is the only good in life and pain is only evil. (H)
8. This is the belief of most scientists. (H)
9. Devotion to God. (T)
10. Happiness can only be attained by a careful practice of apathy. (S)
11. Led by Democritus and Leucippus which believe that the world is made up and controlled by
atoms. (M)

12. Man is the captain of his own ship. (H)

13. In order to generate happiness one must learn to distance oneself and be apathetic. (S)
14. Gluttony. (H)
15. Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die. (H)

Test III. Essay

Directions: Write your own view about the following questions.

1. What would happen to humankind if technology did not exist? Do people really need technology in their lives?

2. In your own point of view, what is good life?

Chances favor the prepared minds

~Louis Pasteur~

Prepared by:

JOSEPH Z. RIZON, MAEd

Faculty