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

2. As discussed in Chapter 2, who is able to trigger transference of models of identity formation within younger members of society?
(a) Self.
(b) Church leaders.
(c) Parents.
(d) Peers.

3. What might the older generation, as suggested by Erikson, use youth's need for joining to satisfy?
(a) Need to rebel.
(b) Need for conformity.
(c) Need for fidelity.
(d) Need for independence.

4. What do youth desire as they go through Erikson's stages of identity development?
(a) Similar identities.
(b) Acceptance from society.
(c) Unique identities.
(d) Dissonance.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What example does Erikson use in Foundations of Observation to clarify the disintegration of ego synthesis?

3. What did Shaw care so much about being?

4. In Chapter 2, Foundations and Observation, during his discussion on group identity, what group of people does Erikson observe group changes to make his point?

5. What term does Erikson use to mean the factor that serves to integrate a person toward a common societal goal?

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