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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, The Life Cycle, Epigenesis of Identity.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the final stages of Erikson's stages of identity development, what type of feelings may individual experiencing stagnation feel?
(a) Calmness.
(b) Despair and hopelessness.
(c) Reflection.
(d) Hope for the future.

2. According to the discussion in Chapter 2, the process of the ego helps individuals maintain their personalities and what type of fashion?
(a) Positive.
(b) Selflessly.
(c) Coherent.
(d) Incoherent.

3. Considering the relationship between personal and historical identity formation, how can this relationship be described?
(a) Psychosocial relativity.
(b) Ancestral relativity.
(c) Psychosomatic confusion.
(d) Genetic relativity.

4. Erikson states that we deal with the process located in the core of the individual and where else?
(a) Within himself.
(b) Among his family.
(c) The core of his communal culture.
(d) In his past.

5. As discussed by Erikson in Chapter 2, what occurs when a system either biological or social malfunctions?
(a) Identity loss.
(b) Confusion.
(c) Restart of identity formation.
(d) Pathology.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do most new generations confront as a result of scientific and technological changes?

2. What does Erikson state is the first age of identity development involve in terms of conflict?

3. Erikson feels that Freud's intellect is a gift that stems from what?

4. What is the core part of identity formation that cannot be separated from this formation?

5. What is present within each period of Erikson's theory of identity development?

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