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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Theoretical Interlude.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Shaw care so much about being?
(a) Smart.
(b) Moral.
(c) Amoral.
(d) Happy.

2. That does introjection mean in terms of Erikson's stages of identity development for groups other than the majority?
(a) Think about the future.
(b) Incorporating another's image.
(c) Explore your identity.
(d) Think about the past.

3. What dose Erikson say psychoanalysts' fail to recognize about the ego?
(a) It is based solely on environment.
(b) It cannot exist without human social organization.
(c) It depends on the individual.
(d) It can exist without human social organization.

4. 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) Wisdom.
(c) Psychological superiority.
(d) Psychosocial well-being.

5. According to Erikson, how long does it take for identity to develop?
(a) 30 years.
(b) 5 years.
(c) A lifetime.
(d) Identity if formed at birth.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Erikson, what is the second stage of identity development?

2. As discussed by Erikson in Chapter 2, what occurs when a system either biological or social malfunctions?

3. What term does Erikson use to describe the fluctuation of ego strength and high growth potential?

4. Based on Freud's theory of identity, Ego identity results in two actions, one of which is synthesizing the frontiers of the ego; what is the other action?

5. Erikson states that we deal with the process located in the core of the individual and where else?

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