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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. According to Erikson in Chapter 2, what occurs when the ego combines elements that result in an inability to form a positive self-image?
(a) Ego synthesis fails.
(b) No identity formation.
(c) Negative identity formation.
(d) Stereotyping.

2. How does Erikson think ideologies should be filled?
(a) Technology.
(b) By the youth themselves.
(c) Intellectual cultivation.
(d) By society.

3. What does Erikson wish youth would search for?
(a) Truth based on society.
(b) Something not sanctioned by society.
(c) Self.
(d) Common ground with society.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How are Erikson's ideologies of youth fulfilled?

3. What elements does Erikson suggest can be caused by the demand to develop a distinct identity?

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

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

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