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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Womanhood and the Inner Space.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can reinforce the process of negative identity formation in terms of Erikson's stages of identity development?
(a) Negative parental reactions.
(b) Weak ego.
(c) Arrogance.
(d) Biology.

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

3. What does George Bernard Shaw despise?
(a) Psychology.
(b) His adolescence.
(c) His family's snobbery.
(d) His family history.

4. What are women isolated by during Erikson's stages of identity development?
(a) Their mothers.
(b) Their outer productive space.
(c) Their inner productive space.
(d) Their fathers.

5. In the beginning of the 20th century, what demonstrated the possibility to destroy human kind?
(a) Negative identity formation.
(b) Pseudospecies.
(c) Peaceniks.
(d) Individuality.

Short Answer Questions

1. Concerning Erikson's theory, when identity development is negative, what type of personalities may occur during the second stage of development?

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

3. What are women able to process better than men, according to Erikson?

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

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

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