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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 often experience, which is evidence of identity diffusion?
(a) Collaboration.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Estrangement.
(d) Rebellion.

2. What does Erikson suggest occurs in institutionalized settings such as a hospital with regard to identity?
(a) Desperation for identity.
(b) Conformity of identity.
(c) Development of oneliness.
(d) Emergence of self.

3. In terms of Erikson's theory of identity development, what is one notion that youth resist?
(a) Youth do not resist.
(b) The present.
(c) The future.
(d) The past.

4. The ________ cannot coexist with the increase in advances in a technologically led culture?
(a) True identity formation of ego.
(b) The combination of individuality and the community.
(c) Conformity of one.
(d) The dislike of regimentation and military enthusiasm.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Erikson feel about psychoanalysts' use of biology?

3. What does Erikson state that the self-concept of self esteem is tied to?

4. Erikson notes that James' youth was full of emotional strains in struggles for what?

5. What does Erikson suggest is in the domain of the inter agency that produces a coherent existence?

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