MCQ Bank
Which of the following is NOT the characteristic of future-oriented people?
- A) Set clear goals
- B) Put efforts to attain goals
- C) Living in the moment
- D) Engage in preventive measures
All of the following are primary tasks of adulthood as given by George Valliant EXCEPT:
- A) Career consolidation
- B) Identity
- C) Inferiority
- D) Intimacy
When we are mindless, our behavior may be ___________ by rules and routines.
- A) Directed
- B) Managed
- C) Governed
- D) Guided
The Children’s Hope Scale developed by Snyder consists of ______ items.
- A) 9
- B) 6
- C) 8
- D) 7
Valliant (2002) stated that in his 80 years longitudinal study, only 30% of participants were able to survive till the end of the study. It is more likely that those 30% who survived adopted the following lifestyle factors which were predictive of successful aging EXCEPT:
- A) Maintaining a healthy weight
- B) Maintaining a firm opinion
- C) Not abusing alcohol
- D) Coping adaptively with mature defenses
Which of the following is a core characteristic of resilient children?
- A) Have good social and communication skills
- B) Derive great pleasure in highly intense activities
- C) Emphasis on pleasurable views of previous interpersonal relationships
- D) Very conservative, overly cautious approach to one’s life
The term successful aging was popularized by Robert Havighurst (1961) when he wrote about “adding life to years” in the first issue of The Gerontologist. Adding years to life closely relates to:
- A) Making life meaningful and Joyful
- B) Making life longer
- C) Making life rigorous
- D) Not taking retirement
Which of the following strategies are used to prevent child abuse or neglect through parent education?
- A) Risk -Focused Strategies
- B) Process -Focused Strategies
- C) Asset -Focused Strategies
- D) Outcome-Focused Strategies
Time Perspective Inventory consists of ___________ point scale.
- A) Nine
- B) Seven
- C) Three
- D) Five
Which of the following courage is the authentic expression of one’s beliefs or values in pursuit of justice or the common good despite power differentials, dissent, disapproval or rejection?
- A) Psychological courage
- B) Physical courage
- C) Moral courage
- D) Vital courage
Which of the following is a life task that requires the development of a social identity and engagement in a career characterized by contentment, compensation, competence and commitment?
- A) Intimacy
- B) Career consolidation
- C) Generativity
- D) Identity
Which of the following support involves giving assistance or help when needed?
- A) Socioemotional support
- B) Social support
- C) Instrumental support
- D) Emotional support
SAWS stands for:
- A) Self-Altruistic Wisdom Scale
- B) Self-Assessed Wisdom Scale
- C) Self-Authentic Wisdom Scale
- D) Self-Appreciated Wisdom Scale
Which of the following is the use of logical argumentation, discussion and reasoning as a method of intellectual investigation and it involves examining and resolving opposing or contradictory ideas and integrating subjective information, motivation and life experiences?
- A) Sensorimotor stage
- B) Preoperational stage
- C) Dialectical operations
- D) Concrete operations
Which of the following is a life task that requires one to “give the self away” and expand one’s social circle?
- A) Identity
- B) Generativity
- C) Integrity
- D) Career consolidation
Which of the following is a life task that requires one to cultivate contentment with life and sense of peace accompanied by increased spirituality?
- A) Integrity
- B) Career consolidation
- C) Identity
- D) Generativity
Which of the following support involves providing friendship, kindness and love for others?
- A) Social support
- B) Instrumental support
- C) Emotional support
- D) Socioemotional support
Which of the following courage is an attempted physical behavior or action that seeks to uphold the values of a society or the common good?
- A) Physical courage
- B) Psychological courage
- C) Vital courage
- D) Moral courage
Effective schools, neighborhoods with high “collective efficacy”, high levels of public safety are the resilience resources and strategies that are identified within the __________.
- A) Other relationships
- B) Child
- C) Community
- D) Family
_________________ is a person’s ability to meet the social, education and occupational expectations of society.
- A) Home adaptation
- B) Inner adaptation
- C) External adaptation
- D) Internal adaptation