CAGAYAN STATE UNIVERSITY - CARIG CAMPUS

College of Arts and Sciences, Social Sciences Department

MIDTERM EXAM IN UNDERSTANDING THE SELF

DIRECTION: Write your Name, submit your answers as a direct message to the class beadle.

I. Multiple Choice. WRITE the CAPITAL LETTER of the correct answer.

1. What is it that signifies a person?

a. his/her name b. one’s school c. his/her friends d. family background

2. One’s ability to separate one’s own intellectual and emotional functioning from that of the family
a. fusion c. differentiation of self
b. triangles d. family projection process

3. This refers to a process when two or more people have a problem with each other they will bring in a
third member to reduce tension
a. triangulation c. societal emotional process
b. nuclear emotional system d. family projection process

4. As you analyze the family systems theory, what kind of causality guides behavior?
a. circular b. dyadic c. vertical d. horizontal

5. In family systems theory, emotional cut-off is used to

a. take revenge on what hurt you
b. reduce anxiety about unresolved family issues
c. teach someone a lesson
d. get the attention of a parent or family member

6. Gilbert Ryle made reference to the fact that

a. It is impossible for the mind to control the body
b. The body is the most important aspect of our lives
c. The mind and the body are two different entities
d. The mind is the most important aspect of our lives

7. All of these statements about personal identity are correct EXCEPT

a. Personal identity is the concept you develop about yourself that evolves over time
b. Descartes pointed out it is not possible for the mind to exist and persist without the body
c. The Concept of persistence refers to our existence across time and how we can prove it
d. Personal identity can change drastically over time depending on our life’s events.

8. In order to properly function in our daily lives, we must rely on some of our beliefs.
This description corresponds to ___.
a. Merleau-Ponty’s approach to an embodied experience.
b. Descartes’ approach to awareness
c. Hume’s approach to skepticism
d. Kant’s approach to understanding

9. All of the following represent flawed patterns of interaction within a family except:
a. rigid family routines
b. division of labor among family members
c. too much or too little flow of communication across boundaries
d. failure to engage in tasks necessary for family functioning

10. When a person has a hard time distinguishing himself/herself from the other members of the family,
she/he has
a. low self-differentiation c. emotional cut-off
b. high self-differentiation d. triangles
11. Domeng is angry at his wife, so he ignores her and plays with their son. He is demonstrating
a. triangles c. family projection process
b. emotional cut-off d. sibling position

12. Bowen’s perspective primarily focuses on

a. individuation of family members, especially the parents
b. improving communication
c. paradoxical communication
d. fair fight strategies

13. Who are the earliest thinkers who questioned about the self?
a. Spaniards c. Greeks
b. Chinese d. Persians

14. Why were Socrates and Plato indicted in their quest for the self?
a. For pointing out that the unexamined life is not worth living
b. By going against the Athenian complacency
c. For teaching Christian values
d. For recruiting young boys and girls to listen to them

15. What did the early philosophers concern themselves in explaining the multiplicity of things in the
world?
a. the question of the arche
b. there is a myth behind the world
c. that there is an end to everything
d. the error in the self

16. How is the ideal state attained in terms of man’s dual nature?
a. By being able to reach a perfect body
b. By harmonizing the three parts of the soul
c. By experiencing one’s emotions
d. By forging the soul and the body

17. What governs the affairs of the human person?

a. one’s rational soul c. the spirited soul
b. the appetitive soul d. both mind and body

18. What school of thought emphasizes that knowledge is possible if sensed and experienced?
a. dualism c. behaviorism
b. empiricism d. existentialism

19. How should we view ourselves then?, says Aquinas.

a. We see beauty in the eye of the beholder. c. As a thinking thing.
b. We refer to the essence of the person. d. As an impression.

20. When one imagines the feeling of being in love for the first time, what is this then?
a. It is still an idea. c. It is appetitive.
b. It is an impression. d. It is really happening.

21. How can the soul stay after death in the eternal realm?, asked Augustine.
a. By living this earthly life in virtue
b. By experiencing all that can be experienced.
c. By attaining a life full of knowledge
d. By behaving trustworthily and truthfully.

22. Humans learn the expectations of society through

A. Parents B. Playmates C. Socialization D. Intergenerational process

23. What best describes a constructivist theory classroom?

A. students working quietly C. teacher led lecture
B. cooperative groupings D. students as passive learners
24. Which of the following assessments would be considered for a constructivist lesson?
A. vocabulary test C. poem recitation
B. multiple choice test D. reflective journal
25. Liz thinks her teacher and friends view her as intelligent. She takes in these view and reacts to them.
Which stage of personality development does this represent?
A. Me B. Imagining C. I D. Interpreting

For items 25-29, what do the examples pertain to? Use the options below:
A. “I” B. “Me” C. Self D. Culture

26. “Boys don’t cry”.

27. “Girls don’t play dirt.”
28. Your rapid heartbeat, sweating, flushing of face.
29. Pulling over, swearing, blaming.
30. You are born male or female.
31. The present and future phase of the self

32. In Mead’s theory of the social self, is the “me” inconceivable without the “I”?
A. No C. It depends
B. Yes D. Sometimes

33. It allows the person to take on the “role of the other” allowing them to respond to his/her gestures.
A. Games B. Play C. Culture D. Language

34. The Matrix is a

A. computer simulation B. real world C. a dream D. resistance group

35.What message did Neo receive through his computer to recognize his Self?
A. This is the Matrix C. Wake up
B. Run D. You are the One

36. Constructivist learning of the self attaches as much meaning to the process of learning as it does to
the acquisition of new knowledge. This means
A.The end justifies the means
B.Social worlds develop out of individuals interactions
C.Everything has a reason
D.The journey is just as important as the destination

37. Mead’s theory of the social self is based on the perspective that teh self emerges from social
interactions, such as
A. Observing and interacting with others
B. Responding to other’s opinions about oneself
C. Internalizing external opinions and internal feelings about oneself
D. All of the above

II. Matching Type. MATCH the items in Column A to the statements in Column B.
WRITE the LETTER of the correct answer as in: 1A

Column A Column B
1. Socrates a. There is an aspect of man that is imperfect while the other
2. Descartes is capable of reaching immortality.
3. Augustine b. The body is not permanent, and a soul that is perfect.
4. Hume c. One should only believe that which can pass the test of
doubt.
5. Aquinas d. What makes a person human is his essence.
6. Marleau-Ponty e. The self is a combination of all that he experiences.
7. Kant f. “I think, therefore, I am”
8. Ryle g. What truly matters is the behavior that the person manifests 9. Plato
in his day-to-day life
h. Man has three components of the soul.
i. Man is a dual nature, composed of body and soul.
 j. The living body, his thoughts, emotions and experiences are all one

III. TRUE OR FALSE: WRITE TRUE if the statement is true based on Bowen’s theory, WRITE
FALSE if the statement is false.

1. Families shape society and society shapes families; emotional system governs behavior
on a larger level.
2. The cornerstone of Bowen’s theory is differentiation of self.
3. We can increase the level of differentiation of self in family members.
4. Spreading the tension can stabilize a family system and resolves the source of the tension.
5. Children inherit strengths as well as problems from parents.

Prepared by:

ASSUMPTA CLARISSA R. TAGUINOD, RGC

Recommending Approval: Approved:

MR. ARTHUR OLIQUIANO, RGC DR. JANE R. SAMBRANA

Chair, Psychology & Human Services Program Dean, CAS