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

2. What does Erikson suggest society's child training systems does for the uniqueness of society?
(a) Provide meaning.
(b) Increase standard of living.
(c) Preserve it.
(d) Strengthen it.

3. What does the success of identification during Erikson's stages of development depend on?
(a) It is society specific.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Interacting with trustworthy models.
(d) Parental support.

4. Considering Erikson's theory of group identity development, what are cultures often led to do concerning their values?
(a) Give them up.
(b) Confirm them.
(c) Absolutize them.
(d) Modify them.

5. What does Erikson suggest offers simplified perspectives in order to avoid confusion of societal beliefs and goals?
(a) Ideologies.
(b) Social understanding.
(c) Education.
(d) Community structure.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Erikson's theory suggest concerning how children gain a sense of what their adult identities should be?

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

4. What term does Erikson use to refer to the methods used throughout history to integrate identity?

5. What does Erikson feel may have been lost to modernity?

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