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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 Freud suggest a fearless freedom of thinking is?
(a) Unattainable.
(b) Negative identity.
(c) Totalitarianism.
(d) Positive identity.

2. As noted in Chapter 2, how can false or inaccurate ego identity formations be corrected after being developed by parents in terms of group identity development?
(a) Through psychotherapy.
(b) They cannot be corrected.
(c) By immersion.
(d) By reworking associations.

3. What does Erikson's theory suggest concerning how children gain a sense of what their adult identities should be?
(a) Learning about being an adult.
(b) Watching TV.
(c) By looking to community members.
(d) It comes natural.

4. What is the definition of "identity" subject to?
(a) Changes in history.
(b) The researcher.
(c) The individual.
(d) The future.

5. What does Shaw find his childhood exposures to have been?
(a) Destructive.
(b) Enlightening.
(c) Extraordinary.
(d) Intrusively noisy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What may be gained as an individual enters Erikson's final stage of development when their overall development has been positive and healthy?

3. Interpreting Freud's theory, what does Erikson feel occurs when the ego resists integrating into new environments?

4. What is unique about each stage of Erikson's stages of identity development?

5. Erikson states that we deal with the process located in the core of the individual and where else?

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