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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Toward Contemporary Issues, Youth.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Shaw find his childhood exposures to have been?
(a) Extraordinary.
(b) Destructive.
(c) Intrusively noisy.
(d) Enlightening.

2. What often occurs when youth are isolated according to Erikson's theory of identity development?
(a) They develop aggressive identities.
(b) They yearn for love and become a joiner.
(c) They develop self actualized identities.
(d) They remain isolated.

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

4. What does Erikson state youth often experience, which is evidence of identity diffusion?
(a) Understanding.
(b) Rebellion.
(c) Collaboration.
(d) Estrangement.

5. In light of Erikson's view on identity development within communities, what must communities recognize in youth?
(a) Their energy.
(b) Their rebellion.
(c) Their lack of identity.
(d) Their identity.

Short Answer Questions

1. In discussing Freud's views on group identity, what does Erikson state is a major cause in identity becoming frustrating and disintegrated?

2. What can reinforce the process of negative identity formation in terms of Erikson's stages of identity development?

3. Since there were few empirical studies, how did Erikson's study individuals?

4. What does Erikson resist characterizing modern youth as?

5. According to the discussion in Chapter 2, the process of the ego helps individuals maintain their personalities and what type of fashion?

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