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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 does Erikson state youth need so they do not languish in a strictly episodical conscious expansion?
(a) Understanding of the past.
(b) Leadership that can be resistant.
(c) A set of guidelines for identity.
(d) Wisdom.

2. 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) Biology.
(d) Arrogance.

3. What does Erikson state youth often experience, which is evidence of identity diffusion?
(a) Estrangement.
(b) Rebellion.
(c) Collaboration.
(d) Understanding.

4. What are two characteristics Erikson applies to the task of the ego in order to maintain and organize its existence?
(a) Ceaseless and essential.
(b) Demanding and authoritative.
(c) Straightforward and never-ending.
(d) Weak and meaningless.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Erikson indicate many psychoanalysts think humans are predisposed to do?

2. Considering Freud's elements of the mind, what are the counterweights of the ego?

3. What does Freud's consciousness of inner identity include?

4. How does Erikson think ideologies should be filled?

5. According to Freud, what is the first stage of identity development called?

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