Taking the Board Licensure Examination for Professional Teachers (BLEPT), formerly known as Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET)? We gathered thousands of practice questions for you.Try these online reviewer for General Education - Social Science below to enhance your knowledge.
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Direction: Select the letter of the best answer.
1.
In epistemology, or the question of knowledge, which of the following knowledge
requires the testing of observation?
a.
A posteriori
b.
A priori
c.
Experimental
d.
Revealed
Answer:
c. Experimental
2.
What philosophical belief asserts that knowledge is impossible?
a.
Agnosticism
b.
Skepticism
c.
Altruism
d.
Empiricism
Answer:
a. Agnosticism
3.
Critical thinking skill requires a teacher to support his/ her claim with a
ground that warrants the reasonability of the conclusion: What major premise is
needed to validly complete this argument?
“But many moments in life
are romantic events
Therefore, many romantic
events are memorable.”
a.
All moments in life are memorable
b.
Romantic events are memorable moments in life
c.
Some in life are memorable
d.
None of the above.
Answer:
a. All moments in life are memorable
4.
The nature of knowledge in the curriculum, its certainty and its objectivity is
founded on what branch of Philosophy?
a.
metaphysics
b.
epistemology
c.
axiology
d.
logic
Answer:
b. epistemology
5.
In Ethics, Emmanuel Kant divided actions into two: acts done from inclination
to non-moral and acts done from a sense of duty-moral. For him, morality
closely bound up with one’s duties and obligation. He also proposed the
Categorical Imperatives: (a) act only on the maxim that you can will that
should become the universal law and (b) act as to treat humanity as an end and
never as means. Which one below applies Kant’s moral philosophy?
a.
One must search for knowledge for immorality is caused by ignorance.
b.
One must resolve before acting if one wants others to do the very action that
one is about to do.
c.
One must see to it that one’s action serves a particular purpose.
d.
One must make sure that his action results into pleasure and avoidance.
Answer:
b. One must resolve before acting if one wants others to do the very action
that one is about to do.
6.
How do philosophers explain the existence of change and permanency’? How is it
that in spite of the changes, there is something that remains to be permanent?
This is due to the principle of _______.
a.
Act and potency
b.
Essence and existence
c.
Cause and effect
d.
Hylemorphism
Answer:
a. Act and potency
7.
Which view about truth is common to all pragmatists?
a.
Truth is what all investigators will ultimately agree to.
b.
Truth is relative to place, time and purpose.
c.
Truth is what works for the individual.
d.
Truth is unchanging.
Answer:
c. Truth is what works for the individual.
8.
This is the systematic consistent explanation of all the facts of experience.
Its technical term is reason. It is considered as the best criterion of truth.
a.
Pragmatism
b.
Consistency
c.
Correspondence
d.
Coherence
Answer:
d. Coherence
9.
“Every non-man is immortal since every mortal being is man.” Suppose the
premise is true, the conclusion of this immediate inference will be _______.
a.
True
b.
False
c.
Doubtful
d.
Invalid
Answer:
a. True
10.
To develop creative thinking skill, the teacher asks “What if…” questions. To
what metaphysical principle is this grounded?
a.
primacy of existence
b.
consciousness
c.
identity
d.
causality
Answer:
b. consciousness
11.
What is the specific role of a teacher’s philosophy of education in the
teaching-learning process?
a.
It determines the aims, mission and vision of the educative process.
b.
It influences the professional development that the teacher undertakes.
c.
It qualifies the objective, the content, the methodology and the context of the
teaching process.
d.
It identifies what kind of learners the teacher is going to teach.
Answer:
c. It qualifies the objective, the content, the methodology and the context of
the teaching process.
12.
This philosophy posits the knowability of the world and everything in it as
they are in themselves and their existence is independent of the human mind.
a.
Existentialism
b.
Idealism
c.
Materialism
d.
Realism
Answer:
d. Realism
13.
What type of error in reasoning is found in this argument?
“This medicine works with
rats; thus, it must surely work with human beings.”
a.
Fallacy of Accident
b.
A Fortiori
c.
Ad Ignorantiam
d.
False Cause
Answer:
b. A Fortiori
14.
Why is that a teacher should address the uniqueness of each pupil, cater to
individual interest, and adapt the lesson to the experience of the learner?
a.
Because of the axiom of causality
b.
Because of the axiom of consciousness
c.
Because of the axiom of identity
d.
Because of the axiom of supremacy of existence
Answer:
c. Because of the axiom of supremacy of existence
15.
In the argument, “We cannot punish this man because he is the only one who
supports his family”, what is wrongly appealed to?
a.
People
b.
Ignorance
c.
Advantage
d.
Pity
Answer:
d. Pity
16.
Aristotle contended that the goof life is a life of happiness. Happiness is an
activity, not a goal, and men ought to behave so as to achieve happiness. Thus,
men must act moderately and they must act so as to be striving for the mean
between two extremes. As a teacher, how are you going to interpret this?
a.
You will provide your students moral dilemmas.
b.
You will develop a sense of duty in your students.
c.
You will develop the cognitive ability of your students.
d.
You will provide your students opportunities to develop virtues.
Answer:
d. You will provide your students opportunities to develop virtues.
17.
If the statement “Some philosophies are irrational” is true, what statement
below will be false?
a.
Some rational things are not philosophies.
b.
Some irrational things are philosophies.
c.
No irrational thing is not philosophies.
d.
No irrational things is a philosophy.
Answer:
d. No irrational things is a philosophy.
18.
“Some scientists are religious” is false then it follows that _______.
a.
All scientists are religious is true.
b.
No scientist is religious is false.
c.
Some scientists are not religious is true.
d.
Some non-religious people are non-scientists is true.
Answer:
c. Some scientists are not religious is true
19.
What kind of opposition exists between the propositions “No man is above the
law” and “Some men are not above the law”?
a.
Contraries
b.
Sub-alternates
c.
Contradictories
d.
Sub-contraries
Answer:
b. Sub-alternates
20.
What kind of opposition exists between the propositions “No man is above the
law” and “Some men are not above the law”?
a.
Contraries
b.
Sub-alternates
c.
Contradictories
d.
Sub-contraries
Answer:
d. Sub-contraries
21.
John Locke contended that the mind is a “white paper” or “tabula rasa” void of
any characters and without any ideas and all things anybody knows comes from
experience. What would be the logical implication of this tenet?
a.
There is no inherent idea.
b.
We can only know our perception of reality and not reality itself.
c.
Reality is in the mind.
d.
Reality is what it appears to be.
Answer:
a. There is no inherent idea.
22.
What is the contraposit of the contradictory of the statement “Life is
precious” and what is its truth value?”
a.
Some precious things are life. False
b.
Some non-precious things are not death. False
c.
Some non-life is not precious. True
d.
Some life is not precious. True
Answer:
b. Some non-precious things are not death. False
23.
In this argument, “Some people are angry is true thus some angry beings are not
people is false,” what kind of immediate inference exists here?
a.
Valid conversion
b.
Invalid conversion
c.
Valid conversion of the sub-contrary
d.
Invalid conversion of the sub-contrary
Answer:
d. Invalid conversion of the sub-contrary
24.
“My grades should be high for I got high grades in the final exam.” What
Fallacies are present in this argument
a.
Division, Composition, False Cause
b.
Composition, A fortiori, Hasty Generalization
c.
False Cause, A fortiori, Hasty Generalization
d.
A fortiori, Hasty Generalization, Division
Answer:
b. Composition, A fortiori, Hasty Generalization
25.
What major premise is needed to validly complete this argument?
“But every idiot is a
mentally retarded person: therefore, no idiot is a scientist.”
a.
No mentally retarded person is a scientist.
b.
All scientists are not idiots
c.
All mentally retarded persons are idiots.
d.
Mentally retarded persons are not to be scientists.
Answer:
a. No mentally retarded person is a scientist.
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