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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 do many youth move back and forth between in terms of dysfunctional modes of Erikson's theory of identity development?
(a) Extreme deviancy and repentance.
(b) Devoted conformity and devotion to self.
(c) Devoted conformity and extreme deviancy.
(d) Mild conformity and mild deviancy.

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

3. What does Erikson resist characterizing modern youth as?
(a) Ready for adulthood.
(b) Self-absorbed.
(c) Lacking virtue.
(d) Lacking identity.

4. Since there were few empirical studies, how did Erikson's study individuals?
(a) Interviews.
(b) Psychoanalysis.
(c) Through case study.
(d) Surveys.

5. According to Erikson in terms of active identity formation individual who now can say they know where they are going, what has occurred?
(a) Identity completion.
(b) Psychological superiority.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Psychosocial well-being.

Short Answer Questions

1. That does introjection mean in terms of Erikson's stages of identity development for groups other than the majority?

2. What did Shaw care so much about being?

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

4. What was Shaw exposed to as a child?

5. What was William James obsessed with his entire life?

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