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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Erikson feel happens when a healthy personality deals with conflict?
(a) They actively master the situation.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Their identity becomes confused.
(d) They lose their identity.
2. What are two characteristics Erikson applies to the task of the ego in order to maintain and organize its existence?
(a) Straightforward and never-ending.
(b) Demanding and authoritative.
(c) Weak and meaningless.
(d) Ceaseless and essential.
3. Concerning Erikson's theory, when identity development is negative, what type of personalities may occur during the second stage of development?
(a) Antisocial.
(b) Arrogance.
(c) Compulsive.
(d) Maladaptive behaviors.
4. What does it mean when the author states, "to review the concept of identity"?
(a) Disprove identity.
(b) Give a lecture.
(c) Sketch its history.
(d) Write an outline.
5. What does Erikson's theory suggest concerning how children gain a sense of what their adult identities should be?
(a) It comes natural.
(b) Learning about being an adult.
(c) By looking to community members.
(d) Watching TV.
Short Answer Questions
1. In observing groups of people being reeducated by American civil servants, what reason does Erikson provide for why this group became frustrated and identity development?
2. What did Shaw convinced himself he was?
3. According to Freud, what is the second stage of identity development called?
4. What was William James obsessed with his entire life?
5. According to Erikson, how long does it take for identity to develop?
Short Essay Questions
1. Considering Erikson's theory of identity development, how does the parent's tendency to remain stuck in adolescents affect youth's identity development?
2. What are some unique characteristics discussed at the beginning of Chapter 4 concerning George Bernard Shaw?
3. What does Erikson mean by the term psychosocial moratorium?
4. Why did William James refer to psychology as morbid psychology?
5. What is Erikson suggest it is a good thing that the term crisis no longer means solely a bad event?
6. Why might it be reasonable to think pathological and developmental aspects of identity?
7. According to Erikson, why is early adolescents signified by feelings of initiative or guilt?
8. How does Erikson use child training to describe group identity formation?
9. Why is a feeling of wholeness by the final stages of Erikson's identity development necessary in creating a positive identity?
10. Why does Erikson suggest that understanding identity requires understanding the development of identity?
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