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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, The Life Cycle, Epigenesis of Identity.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the definition of "identity" subject to?
(a) The future.
(b) The individual.
(c) Changes in history.
(d) The researcher.

2. What style of identity combines medieval conception of community with modern disobedience and nonviolence?
(a) Peacenik.
(b) Anarchy.
(c) Individual.
(d) Conformity.

3. In Chapter 2, Foundations and Observation, during his discussion on group identity, what group of people does Erikson observe group changes to make his point?
(a) Middle class Whites.
(b) The Sioux Indians.
(c) Blacks.
(d) The Aztec Indians.

4. In Chapter 2, what does Erikson feel about how psychologists treat social dynamics and external social elements?
(a) As keys to social competence.
(b) As surface events.
(c) As deep rooted elements of social identity.
(d) The coexist.

5. What does it mean when the author states, "to review the concept of identity"?
(a) Disprove identity.
(b) Write an outline.
(c) Give a lecture.
(d) Sketch its history.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. As noted in Chapter 2, how can false or inaccurate ego identity formations be corrected after being developed by parents in terms of group identity development?

3. During the process of Erikson's stages of identity development, what will depend on the total process of identity development?

4. Considering the relationship between personal and historical identity formation, how can this relationship be described?

5. During the third stage of Erikson's theory of development, what may occur if an individual's initiatives or attempts at something continually fail?

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