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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are Erikson's ideologies of youth fulfilled?
(a) Technology.
(b) By society.
(c) By the youth themselves.
(d) Intellectual cultivation.

2. What does the process of meeting fidelity do for Erikson's theory of youth identity?
(a) Confirms it.
(b) Strengthens it.
(c) Confuses it.
(d) Denies it.

3. According to Erikson's theory, what is psychologically different between males and females?
(a) Everything.
(b) Their notions of success.
(c) Their psychological spaces.
(d) Their ability to express empathy.

4. Why does Erikson state that remorseful majorities be watched?
(a) They may not really be remorseful.
(b) They may become oppressed.
(c) They may lose their identity.
(d) They may repeat habitual patterns.

5. 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) Merging self with the past.
(c) Merging self with the environment.
(d) Analyzing the frontiers of the ego.

6. What type of feelings does Erikson proposed are experienced by those in oppressed groups?
(a) Interest in other groups.
(b) Indifference and loathing.
(c) Superiority and self-love.
(d) Inferiority and self-hate.

7. For women, as proposed by Erikson, when does adulthood begin?
(a) When they have children.
(b) When they get married.
(c) When they turn 18 years old.
(d) With the capacity to give and receive love.

8. Why does Erikson think the black identity has been confused?
(a) Lack of study of this population.
(b) Many do not fully understand identity.
(c) Historical events.
(d) Negativity of black writers.

9. What are women isolated by during Erikson's stages of identity development?
(a) Their outer productive space.
(b) Their inner productive space.
(c) Their mothers.
(d) Their fathers.

10. Why does Erikson suggest men are resistant to respond to women?
(a) Age-old physical reasons.
(b) They are frightened.
(c) Age-old psychological reasons.
(d) It is not proper.

11. Why does Erikson feel focus has moved to women?
(a) They are more than housewives.
(b) They have a lot to offer.
(c) They are equal to men.
(d) Threat of nuclear annihilation.

12. What are women able to process better than men, according to Erikson?
(a) Verbal material.
(b) Discrimination.
(c) Logic.
(d) Scientific material.

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

14. What often occurs when youth are isolated according to Erikson's theory of identity development?
(a) They remain isolated.
(b) They develop self actualized identities.
(c) They develop aggressive identities.
(d) They yearn for love and become a joiner.

15. Considering Freud's elements of the mind, what are the counterweights of the ego?
(a) Self and society.
(b) Id and society.
(c) Environment and society.
(d) Id and superego.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Erikson suggest occurs in institutionalized settings such as a hospital with regard to identity?

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

3. In Chapter 8, what does Erikson suggest is a natural characteristic of identity?

4. What does Erikson wish youth would search for?

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

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