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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. Because of an individual's tendency to define self based on history, what does Erikson think this self-based history leave little room for the individual to create?
(a) New understanding.
(b) New support systems.
(c) New traditions.
(d) New identity.

2. What does Erikson state is the first age of identity development involve in terms of conflict?
(a) Autonomy vs. shame.
(b) Initiative vs. Guilt.
(c) Trust vs. mistrust.
(d) Intimacy vs. isolation.

3. At what stage in Erikson's theory of development may an individual begin to lose confidence or identity and enter period of listlessness?
(a) Generativity vs. stagnation.
(b) Intimacy vs. isolation.
(c) Industry vs. inferiority.
(d) Autonomy vs. shame.

4. What is one thing that Erikson states comes with each stage of identity development?
(a) A widening social radius.
(b) Understanding of self.
(c) Closing off of society.
(d) An emotional separation.

5. What might gaining a stronger self identity correspond to in relation to the majority of the population?
(a) Anarchy.
(b) A strong societal bond.
(c) Emancipation from society.
(d) Totalitarianism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do most new generations confront as a result of scientific and technological changes?

2. What does Erikson state youth need so they do not languish in a strictly episodical conscious expansion?

3. According to Freud, what is the second stage of identity development called?

4. What does Erikson suggest society's child training systems does for the uniqueness of society?

5. What style of identity combines medieval conception of community with modern disobedience and nonviolence?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the role of ideologies and identity development?

2. According to Erikson, why might it be petty to attempt to define "identity" or "identity crisis"?

3. How do social scientists attempt to narrow the term identity down?

4. According to Erikson, why is early adolescents signified by feelings of initiative or guilt?

5. Why is a feeling of wholeness by the final stages of Erikson's identity development necessary in creating a positive identity?

6. What is Erikson feel that the process of identity formation is the process of increasing differentiation?

7. What is Erikson suggest that the Western sense of identity has been weakened?

8. Considering group identity developing, in light of Erikson's stages of development, how do individuals make group decisions in order to ease the pressures of making difficult decisions?

9. Why did William James refer to psychology as morbid psychology?

10. What does Erikson mean by the term psychosocial moratorium?

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