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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. How does Erikson think ideologies should be filled?
(a) By society.
(b) By the youth themselves.
(c) Intellectual cultivation.
(d) Technology.
2. What according to Erikson, what involves testing, selecting, and integrating self images?
(a) Self-esteem.
(b) Ego identity.
(c) Community structures.
(d) Wisdom.
3. What dose Erikson say psychoanalysts' fail to recognize about the ego?
(a) It is based solely on environment.
(b) It can exist without human social organization.
(c) It cannot exist without human social organization.
(d) It depends on the individual.
4. What does Erikson resist characterizing modern youth as?
(a) Ready for adulthood.
(b) Lacking identity.
(c) Self-absorbed.
(d) Lacking virtue.
5. What do the elements of the self produce in light of Erikson's theory of identity development?
(a) A composite of self.
(b) A potential identity.
(c) A composite of society.
(d) An understanding.
Short Answer Questions
1. Considering Erikson's theory of group identity development, what are cultures often led to do concerning their values?
2. In order to successful integration to occur what does Erikson feel must fit together?
3. How are Erikson's ideologies of youth fulfilled?
4. What elements of Erikson's theory must be balanced in order to avoid obsessiveness and relativism?
5. What does Erikson say about the absence of black fathers?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Erikson think is the driving force for the more inclusive identity?
2. What role does the psychoanalyst play in helping an individual in terms of developing identity according to the theory set forth by Erikson?
3. What are the characteristics of youth leaders, in terms of Erikson's theory?
4. According to post-Freudian theory, how is culture developed around women?
5. What is Erikson feel that terms such as "I" or "self" are confusing?
6. What is the difference between the Ego and "I"?
7. In referring to Erikson's theory of racial identity development, how are the negative self images of minorities unintentionally reinforced by the majority?
8. What is Erikson state that it is difficult for black mothers to push their children to be educated?
9. Why does Erikson feel it is important to have a clear identity when one has numerous options for identity available?
10. What does Erikson think is different about the male and female focus of identity?
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