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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Toward Contemporary Issues, Youth.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Erikson so impressed with Shaw?
(a) He could integrate the complex elements of life.
(b) He developed a good theory of development.
(c) He did not care what others thought.
(d) He was very intelligent.

2. What does the success of identification during Erikson's stages of development depend on?
(a) Nothing.
(b) It is society specific.
(c) Parental support.
(d) Interacting with trustworthy models.

3. What did Shaw care so much about being?
(a) Happy.
(b) Smart.
(c) Moral.
(d) Amoral.

4. According to Erikson in Chapter 2, what does personal identity focus on?
(a) Unconscious feelings.
(b) Feelings of others.
(c) Place in society.
(d) Conscious feelings.

5. What might the older generation, as suggested by Erikson, use youth's need for joining to satisfy?
(a) Need for conformity.
(b) Need for independence.
(c) Need to rebel.
(d) Need for fidelity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Erikson resist characterizing modern youth as?

2. According to Erikson in Chapter 2, what occurs when the ego combines elements that result in an inability to form a positive self-image?

3. What type of groups, as proposed by Erikson, often play on the various needs of youth?

4. According to Erikson, what action by youth may lead to dangerous behaviors?

5. What does Shaw find his childhood exposures to have been?

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