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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. What can reinforce the process of negative identity formation in terms of Erikson's stages of identity development?
(a) Weak ego.
(b) Negative parental reactions.
(c) Arrogance.
(d) Biology.
2. In observing groups of people being reeducated by American civil servants, what reason does Erikson provide for why this group became frustrated and identity development?
(a) They did not speak the language.
(b) They could not integrate the necessary steps for tangible future.
(c) They did not understand the culture.
(d) They did not want to be educated.
3. According to Erikson in terms of active identity formation individual who now can say they know where they are going, what has occurred?
(a) Psychosocial well-being.
(b) Identity completion.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Psychological superiority.
4. Throughout the stages of Erikson's theory of identity development, what happens if youth do not take advantage of the wisdom elders have to share?
(a) They form distinct identities.
(b) They may become isolated.
(c) They can not form their identities.
(d) Nothing.
5. What term does Erikson use to refer to the methods used throughout history to integrate identity?
(a) Methods of identity.
(b) Methods of acquisition.
(c) Methods of group formation.
(d) Methods of conformity.
Short Answer Questions
1. What elements does Erikson suggest can be caused by the demand to develop a distinct identity?
2. In Chapter 2, what does Erikson feel about how psychologists treat social dynamics and external social elements?
3. What aspects of Freud's theory of development does a functional ego integrate?
4. According to Erikson, what does totalitarianism require of society?
5. In developing Erikson' theory of group identity, what two processes must the ego consist of that assist in defining both body in community membership?
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