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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Based on Erikson's studies, what directly influences the egos process of self integration?
(a) Society.
(b) Self.
(c) Historical reality and context.
(d) Family.

2. How does Erikson say black males have been exploited?
(a) Psychologically.
(b) Physically.
(c) As domestic animals.
(d) As humans.

3. What two components within Erikson's theory are important for youth to base their identities on?
(a) Childhood and ideologies.
(b) Ideologies and the future.
(c) Morals and community structure.
(d) Future and childhood.

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

5. Why does Erikson suggest women are more passive than men?
(a) Environment.
(b) Biology.
(c) Psychology.
(d) Socialization.

6. What does Erikson feel has barker elements that may not be wholly sincere?
(a) Identity of women.
(b) Helpless feelings of women.
(c) Oppression of women.
(d) Emancipation of women.

7. What does Erikson state that the self-concept of self esteem is tied to?
(a) Environment.
(b) Identity.
(c) Parents.
(d) Biology.

8. How does man quantify attributes of himself philosophically and psychologically in terms of Erikson's views of identity development?
(a) Accepts imperfections.
(b) Understands the whole society.
(c) Uses the words I and self.
(d) Uses the words Us and We.

9. How does feminists often react during times of identity development and social change, as proposed in Erikson's theory?
(a) With indifference.
(b) Revert to old ways.
(c) Weakly.
(d) Strongly.

10. What term does Erikson use for a biological life cycle?
(a) Psyche.
(b) Soma.
(c) Ego.
(d) Id.

11. What do environmental counterweights of identity help explain in terms of Freud's theory of identity?
(a) Inner world of the ego.
(b) Outer world of the ego.
(c) Society.
(d) Self.

12. Based on Freud's theory of identity, Ego identity results in two actions, one of which is synthesizing the frontiers of the ego; what is the other action?
(a) Completing identity.
(b) Analyzing the frontiers of the ego.
(c) Merging self with the environment.
(d) Merging self with the past.

13. What might the older generation, as suggested by Erikson, use youth's need for joining to satisfy?
(a) Need for independence.
(b) Need for fidelity.
(c) Need for conformity.
(d) Need to rebel.

14. What elements does Erikson suggest can be caused by the demand to develop a distinct identity?
(a) Split identities.
(b) Confusion.
(c) Ego strength.
(d) Anxiety.

15. What does Erikson resist characterizing modern youth as?
(a) Lacking identity.
(b) Ready for adulthood.
(c) Lacking virtue.
(d) Self-absorbed.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Erikson, what action by youth may lead to dangerous behaviors?

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

3. According to Erikson, how are oppressed groups' negative identities confirmed?

4. What type of feelings does Erikson proposed are experienced by those in oppressed groups?

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

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