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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Theoretical Interlude.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Erikson suggest is in the domain of the inter agency that produces a coherent existence?
(a) Ancestors.
(b) Environment.
(c) The ego.
(d) Biology.

2. What was Shaw exposed to as a child?
(a) Alcoholism.
(b) Mental illness.
(c) Fighting.
(d) Music making.

3. What aspects of Freud's theory of development does a functional ego integrate?
(a) Biological and psychosexual.
(b) Psychosocial and psychosexual.
(c) Social and environmental.
(d) Psychosocial and biological.

4. During the Erikson's second stage of development, what does the individual gain when identity has developed in a healthy manner?
(a) Mental development.
(b) Independence.
(c) Confidence and control over himself.
(d) Wisdom.

5. What is one thing that Erikson states comes with each stage of identity development?
(a) A widening social radius.
(b) An emotional separation.
(c) Closing off of society.
(d) Understanding of self.

Short Answer Questions

1. As discussed in Chapter 2, who is able to trigger transference of models of identity formation within younger members of society?

2. What is present within each period of Erikson's theory of identity development?

3. According to Erikson, how long does it take for identity to develop?

4. Within the Erikson's system of the self-concept, what is produced by the ego?

5. What does Erikson state the ego is in that it knows and understands where it wants to go?

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