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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 was William James obsessed with his entire life?
(a) Social dysfunction.
(b) Self.
(c) Identity.
(d) Morbid psychology.

2. What example does Erikson use in Foundations of Observation to clarify the disintegration of ego synthesis?
(a) Adolescence.
(b) Homelessness.
(c) Wartime trauma.
(d) Natural disasters.

3. What two components within Erikson's theory are important for youth to base their identities on?
(a) Future and childhood.
(b) Ideologies and the future.
(c) Morals and community structure.
(d) Childhood and ideologies.

4. According to Erikson, what does totalitarianism require of society?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Conformity.
(c) A combination of identities.
(d) A sense of legitimacy of state power.

5. What does the process of meeting fidelity do for Erikson's theory of youth identity?
(a) Confuses it.
(b) Strengthens it.
(c) Denies it.
(d) Confirms it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do youth desire as they go through Erikson's stages of identity development?

2. What might the older generation, as suggested by Erikson, use youth's need for joining to satisfy?

3. How does Erikson feel adults eventually settle on an identity?

4. In order to create a positive ego what does Erikson state must be tested?

5. What aspects of Freud's theory of development does a functional ego integrate?

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