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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Theoretical Interlude.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Erikson states that we deal with the process located in the core of the individual and where else?
(a) Among his family.
(b) Within himself.
(c) In his past.
(d) The core of his communal culture.

2. What does Erikson state youth need so they do not languish in a strictly episodical conscious expansion?
(a) Leadership that can be resistant.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) A set of guidelines for identity.
(d) Understanding of the past.

3. According to Freud, what is the third stage of development called?
(a) Anal stage.
(b) Latent stage.
(c) The phallic stage.
(d) Oral stage.

4. How does Erikson feel adults eventually settle on an identity?
(a) Based on their place in society.
(b) Through the mechanisms of identification.
(c) Based on their parents identity.
(d) Based on childhood experiences.

5. What does Erikson indicate many psychoanalysts think humans are predisposed to do?
(a) Interact with the environment.
(b) Change the environment.
(c) Be passive actors in their environment.
(d) Accept their environment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the process of identity formation began?

2. What does Erikson feel the biological process of psychoanalysis has become?

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

4. In the early 20th century, totalitarian disposition is best understood as what?

5. As discussed in Chapter 1, what first lead to the scientific mythology of the mind?

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