AGRICULTURE LICENSURE EXAMINATION people is blocked or resisted because

AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND COMMUNICATION people believe that what they want to
believe. This phenomenon is known as
INSTRUCTIONS: SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER FOR ________________.
EACH OF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS. MARK ONLY A. selectivity of perception
ONE ANSWER FOR EACH ITEM BY SHADING THE BOX B. self-fulfilling prophecy
CORRESPONDING TO THE LETTER OF YOUR CHOICE C. value orientation
ON THE ANSWER SHEET PROVIDED. STRICTLY NO D. belief system
ERASURES ALLOWED.
7. Agricultural development is manifested
MULTIPLE CHOICE in _______________.
A. increased food supply
1. The decentralization of authority to B. modernization of the agriculture sector
local government units to manage and C. improvement in the efficiency of
supervise agricultural extension system agriculture
in the Philippines is contained in this D. increasing manpower
law __________.
A. Republic Act 6071 8. This refers to actions regarding whether
B. Republic Act 7160 or not people avail themselves of the
C. Republic Act 1761 extension program.
D. republic Act 7610 A. Community organizing
B. Decisions
2. Who is the new Secretary of Agriculture? C. Community building
A. Piñol D. Attitudes
B. Dar
C. Serrano 9. is the purpose of communication which
D. Eleazar means influencing feelings, thought and
behavior of listeners.
3. This illustrates the systematic A. to persuade
procedure played by extension workers in B. to entertain
getting the vital information across the C. to inform
client-learners. D. To motivate
A. Approach
B. Method 10. It is a shift from traditional
C. Strategy methods of production so now, science-
D. Technique based methods Including technological
components such as varieties, new crops,
4. Which of the following approaches in or even new farming systems.
extension involves social welfare and A. Technology
total economic development? B. Technique
A. Countryside Action Program C. Extension
B. Rural development D. Agriculture development
C. Rural and agricultural development
D. Community development 11. In this stage of technology
development process, the promoters of
5. To induce change in the clientele, the technology can use varied approaches and
extension agents’ tool is called methods in bringing technologies to end
__________. users.
A. Enough funds A. Technology verification
B. Technology B. Technology generation
C. Communication C. Technology adaptation
D. Training funds D. Technology dissemination

6. More often the technical information 12. Which of the following shows the art
that is brought to the attention of the or skill of performance?
A. Can asexually propagate fruit trees 19. Modern agriculture demands that
B. Unique way of using method demonstration farmers are _____________.
C. Method demonstration of asexual A. Entrepreneur
propagation B. Their own decision makers regarding the
D. Lecture-demonstration in asexual farm
propagation C. p to date with technologies business
D. Science, rather than tradition bound
13. The actual application of theories of
farmers in the field is ______________. 20. Innovation decision period is co-
A. Technique terminus to;
B. Method A. Diffusion period
C. Practice B. Incubation period
D. Service C. Time lag
D. Integrated period
14. An innovation is something that is
A. New 21. The act whose primary purpose was the
B. Beautiful establishment of an agricultural
C. Common experimentation station refers to
D. Traditional _______________.
A. Enith-Lever Act of 1914
15. The use of communication in bringing B. Hatch Act of 1887
new information to the farmers and other C Clark-Henary Act of 1926
rural client: is referred to as _______. D. Morrill Act of 1662
A. Agricultural education
B. Diffusion 22. The main purpose of agricultural
C. Agricultural extension extension is to assist the farmers
D. Development communication A. Get richer
B. Help themselves
16. When you show the step-by-step C. Practice recommended practices
procedure in cleft grafting, you are D. Get an education
using ____________.
A. Result demonstration 23. Communication is defined as "who says
B. Meeting what to whom in which channel with what
C. Method demonstration affect” by _____________.
D. Field trip A. Dewey
B. Berlo
17. Which among the items exist when the C. Aristotle
following phrases occur? D. Laswell
- cluster of projects to be undertaken
- a package of interrelated projects to 24. The key to effective management and
meet certain socio-economies goals implementation of extension is to ensure
A. plan that the extension planning and program
B. program design has adequate mechanisms to
C. objective include the following except:
D. project A. Regular field visits and training
B. Monitoring and evaluation
18. The new criteria for acceptance for C. Effective linkages
an inference is its _________________. D. Process documentation
A. reliable
B. validity 25. Words of praises, recognition and
C. simplicity appreciation given to extension clients
D. observation for their accomplishments and good
performance is an example of the
extension principle of _____________.
A. satisfaction
B. participation significant than the plan of work for
C. communication and promotion the reason that
D. instruction and research A. It is necessary to prevent mistaking the
means for the end
26. Be defined Communication as the B. It is more important for farmers to know
search for all the available means of what they are going to do than how and when
persuasion. they are going to do it.
A. Dewey C. There is a seed to promote understanding
B. Aristotle D. There is need to choose the important
C. Plato from the incidental problems
D. Barlo
32. Natural or physical resources do
27. Which are flat representations of cover this.
some portion of the earth's surface? A. Land
A. Graphic drawings B. Animal
B. Maps C. Market
C. Pictures D. Water
D. Films
33. What provides an organization with a
basis for generating social power?
28. Which of the following is downward A. Authority
communication? B. Roles and statuses
A. Secretary, Department of Agriculture C. Resource
submitted proposal to President of the D. Economy
country
B. Student leaders in college coordinated 34. A program is composed of practical,
meeting with one another realistic and doable
C. Feedback on the proposal returned by the A. Activities
head of the agency to the proponent B. Rule
D. Letter sent thru fax by BUC Presidents, C. Projects
the Chairman, Commission on Higher D. Tasks
Education
35. Among the groupings of extension
29. Extension workers serves as the teaching methods, these are best in
source of message and the farmers as the moving the clientele from evaluation to
receivers of message and vice versa. trial stage of adoption.
A. Four-way communication process A. Individual methods
B. One-way communication process B. Mass methods
C. Two-way communication process C. Group methods
D. Three-way communication process D. Interactive methods

30. The educational objective of 36. The process which builds a program is
education is for future application or known as_________.
preparation for Life A. Problem solving
A. Non-formal education B. Workshop
B. Formal education C. People's assembly
C. Informal education D. Program projection
D. Interactive Education
37. The Secretary of Agriculture who
31. An extension program is one thing and started serving in 2016 is this man
plan of work is another, but as A. Piñol
extension program cannot be culturally B. Alcala
elaborated without the plan of work. On C. Lorenzo
the other hand, the program is more D. Sebastian
38. It is defined as what the extension 44. What is the outgrowth of
worker will be presenting and industrialization and urbanization?
discussing. A. Decentralization
A. Subject matter B. Centralization
B. Method C. Modernization
C. Objective D. Bureaucratization
D. Demonstration
45. Which is NOT included in this group
39. Hybrid rice seed for commercial of community resources?
production is something that is A. Farmers and homemakers
___________________. B. Adoptors of technology
A. beautiful C. Land and Water
B. new D. Leaders
C. common
D. traditional 46. They are powerful attention getters"
and "explainers" when used with news
40. Innovative decision period is co- articles in newspapers and magazines
terminus to A. Charts
A. Integrated period B. Objects
B. Time log C. Models
c. Diffusion period D. Photographs
D. Incubation period
47. Which has more opportunity for use
41. As extension approach is an organized because they apply to many situations?
and coherent combination of strategies A. Principles
and methods to make rural extension B. Reinforcement
effective in a certain area. Different C. Involvement
approaches we use in rural extension D. Association
work. Which of the following is not
extension approach? 48. This refers to a teaching aid or a
A. Community approach tool used to facilitate instruction
B. Speculative approach A. technique
C. Scheme approach B. device
D. Farmer’s Organization approach C. method
D. instructional material
42. Which among the line corresponds in
the following statements? 49. It the innovation is perceived as
- It is an overall plan for the orderly being consistent with existing values.
presentation of a lesson past experiences, and needs of
- It is an organized orderly systematic receivers. It has this attribute.
and well-planned procedure aimed at A. Compatibility
enhancing and facilitating learning B. Relative advantage
A. Method C. Trialability
B. Technique system D. Complexity
C. System
D. Approach 50. It is an attribute of technology
which refers to the degree to which an
43. Point out the important single Innovation is perceived consistent with
element in the communication process. a society's existing values, past
A. Message experiences and reedy.
B. Channel A. Complexity
C. Source B. Trialability
D. Receiver C. Compatibility
D. relative advantage
51. It is intended to chase the 57. Which promotes the interest of the
performance of people doing jobs and to organization?
improve the capability of people in A. Autocracy
their present work. B. Paternalism
A. Lecture C. Authoritarianism
B. Seminar D. Familism
C. Demonstration
D. Training 58. Which of the following items refers
to cultural diffusion?
52. Which is considered to be the net A. Spread in inventions, customs, and
tant variable in the study status and tradition
social change in the society? B. Difference in culture from one society
A. occupation to another
B. family name and background C. Emergence of new ideas and disappearance
C. income and wealth of tradition
D. education D. New inventions are added to culture

53. The______in the use of teaching 59. The underlying philosophy of

method is a principle in extension extension is ____________________.
because the extension clientele are A. man as the center of the universe
different from each other. B. man as the means and end of development
A. adaptability efforts
B. appropriateness C. man should be the focus of all
C. solution development efforts
D. acceptability D. man should help themselves

54. It is man's Important medium for 60. In this stage in the Innovation
personal development and social Decision Process, the individual is
interaction. exposed to the innovation's existence
A Transportation and gains some understanding how it
B. Management functions.
C. Communication A. Knowledge
D. Leadership B. Decision
C. Persuasion
55. Who among the Filipino Agricultural D. Confirmation
Scientists advocated this statement?
only through collective action or 61. Which among these do not belong to
organized grouping can small farmers be the very intricate process of change?
heard in the formulation of agricultural A. technology
policies *7 B. development
A. O. J. Secay C. structure
B. D. L. Umali D. people
C. J. D. Drilon, Jr.
D. A. R. Tanco, Jr. 62. This refers to a teaching aid or a
tool used to facilitate instruction
56. The organization which aims at an A. Technique
all-around development of she heart, B. Device
hands, and health among rural youths is C. Instructional material
known ________________. D. Method
A. Sangguniang Kabataan
B. Kabataang Barangay 63. Which of the following is a sampling
C. Anak Bukid Club frame?
D. 4-H club A. Sampling guide
B. Population of households
C. Unit of observation
D. List of population illustrations- backed with sand paper
could be attached to serve as visual
64. Which one refers to the population aid.
actually covered? A. Bulletin
A. Survey population B. Poster
B. Target population C. Flannelgraph
C. Universe of farmers D. Chalkboard
D. Census population
70. The fastest way to communicating with
65. What happens when the diffusion of farmers on their barangays.
innovation proceeds with no apparent A. radio
disruption of the cultural pattern in a B. leaflets
rural community? C. poster
A. The innovation creates expectation of D. televisions
change
B. The innovation fits the cultural 71. The extension agent can provide rural
patterns people with useful and practical
C. The innovation is integrated knowledge only when he understands
D. The innovation is adopted people's __________________.
A. Conditions
66. This office was created through B. Resources
Executive Order No. 183 in 1945 to C. Needs
assure the major responsibility of D. Taste
overseeing the effective delivery of
agricultural extension in the country. 72. Which reveals the social scientific
A. Rational Food and Agriculture Council nature of survey research?
B. Presidential Assistant for Community A. Nature of variables
Development B. Description
C. Agricultural Productivity Commission C. opinions and attitudes
D. Bice and Corn Production Coordinating D. Explanation
Council
73. Essentially, what do technological
67. The degree to which the results of data obtained from a locality represent
technology are visible to others is in extension work?
called ___________________. A. Problems in the area of practice
A. observability recommended to extension clientele
B. relative advantage B. Discrepancies between the present
C. complexity situation and what is desired
D. traibliity C. Problems related to the underdevelopment
of a specific locality
68. In the discussion of local D. Problems related to the natural
conditions to define immediate environment and rural population
objectives of extension, what would be
of interest to the people that an 74. In the following question, select one
extension workers should elicit from which refers to evaluation.
them? A. Which extension methods were the most
A. Increased income and available credit effective?
B. Better marketing methods and price for B. Were the differences in performance
farm produce between former groups?
C. Expressed needs and wants C. How great or small were the changes in
D. Concers of family living performance of extension.
D. What were the changes in the performance
69. It is a stationary or portable of extension clientele?
surface covered with cloth where
newspaper cutouts, symbols, drawings, or
75. If there is similarity or overlapping 81. Which among the following statements
in the backgrounds of experience of is not a characteristic demonstration?
people, then, there is a basis of A. All equipment, tools and materials
agreement and common action what do you needed are prepared in advance.
call this condition upon which extension B. The participants to the form to see
workers can work on be avoid conflict? results of the demonstration
A. Consensus C. The demonstration is broken into small,
B. Accommodation manageable steps
C. Appercaptive mass D. Rehearsal is a must.
D. Collective consciousness
82. This is the art or skill of
76. By virtue of Executive Order 116 performance of an extension worker which
(1967), this agency vas born with the can contribute to successful asexual
merging of the Bureau of Agricultural propagation of trees.
Extension, the Philippines Agricultural A. Good method
Training Council and the Philippine B. Device
Training Center for Rural Development. C. Good techniques
A. Bureau of Animal Industry D. Good teaching
B. Bureau of Agricultural Extension
C. Bureau of Plant Industry 83. Leaders in an organization
D. Agricultural Training Institute communicate the following to their
subordinates excluding this.
77. A regularly issued publication, keeps A. Problems encountered
people abreast of what is happening in B. Vision, mission, goals of the
their field is _____________. organization
A. Newspapers C. Rules and regulations
B. Booklet D. Expected performance outputs
C. Newsletter
D. Factsheet 84. This is not included in the tips on
how to say radio plug, spot and mini-
78. When one in an organization drama
communicates following the management A. Make your message clear and can be
structure and the formal reporting repetitive
system, he is using this channel of B. Use simple words
communication. C. Communicate in the language of the
A. non-formal channels audience to be clearly understood
B. informal channels D. Start from the primary message and then
C. combined channels to the
D. formal channels
85. When do people realize there is a gap
79. The early majority adopters comprise between when they are and when they
this percentage of farmers as a result would like to be?
of research on time of adoption A. When they get involved in program
A. 34% planting
B. 11.5% B. When they receive training on the farm
C. 16% C. When needs are recognized
D. 2.5 % D. When they participate in solving
problems
80. The Executive Order that created
Agricultural Training Institute. 86. Which type of survey is used when it
A. Executive Order 116 studies social condition relationships,
B. Executive Order 117 and behavior?
C. Executive Order No. 118 A. Sample survey
D. Executive Order No. 120 B. Descriptive survey
C. Social survey
D. Explanation A. Relative advantage
B. Compatibility
87. The method of teaching showing the C. Complexity
different steps of cleft grafting mango D. Trialability
is called _____________________.
A. method demonstration 94. When the farmer client visits the
B. meetings extension office to seek referrals for
C. result demonstration credit and other support services, the
D. field trip action is an example of this extension
teaching method
88. It is the application of theories or A. Office call
the actual performance of development B. Meeting
agents in the field. C. Telephone call
A. Technique D. Informal contact
B. Presentation
C. Method 95. Which one has no organization of any
D. Practice kind but provides the "ra material for
the creation of social organization?
89. This stage of adoption process exists A. Social interaction
when the purposes are to inform the B. Population
farmers of a new technology. C. Material technology
A. Awareness D. Natural environment
B. Evaluation
C. Trial 96. Which factors about the source and
D. Interest receivers are not contributory effective
communication?
90. Among the groupings of extension A. Consideration of the encoding skills of
teaching methods, this approach is best the receivers
in moving the clientele from the B. Knowledge level on the receiver's
evaluation and trial stage of adoption. characteristics and method
A. group C. Positive attitudes of the source towards
B. mass media the receive
C. interactive D. Mastery of the subject matter
D. individual
97. Technically, a is written document
91. Program planning process usually covering specific period of time that
requires four steps. What is its and contains the organization/ agency vision
result? and see goals. programs thrust,
A. Development of plan of work approaches and strategy, policies and
B. Determination of evaluation of programs rule, structures, manpower and funding
C. Decision on objectives requirement
D. Execution of the plan A. Plan
B. Program
92. When adoption is treated as "hard C. Mission
data about modernization. It is viewed D. Project
as:
A. material change 98. The decision which the communication
B. behavioral change source makes in selecting and arranging
C. cognitive change both code and content is _____________.
D. attitudinal change A. Treatment
B. Effect
93. The technology attribute which refers C. Content
to the consistency of the technology D. Code
with the farmers existing values,
experiences and needs is termed as
99. More often individuals that adopt a
technology are influenced by Individuals
with high prestige. which of the items
refers to this situation?
A. Conceptual identification
B. Monopoly on legitimate use of force
C. Power relationships between individuals
D. Relative status of individuals and
systems

100. which element of social organization

affects the dissemination of
information?
A. Status
B. Social structure
c. Kinship
D. Role

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