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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 is one example that Erikson provides for the notion of "evil ego identity"?
(a) Self loathing.
(b) Confusion.
(c) Ethnic stereotypes.
(d) Gender stereotypes.

2. What are women able to process better than men, according to Erikson?
(a) Logic.
(b) Scientific material.
(c) Verbal material.
(d) Discrimination.

3. According to Freud, what is the first stage of identity development called?
(a) Anal stage.
(b) Latent stage.
(c) Oral stage.
(d) Phallic stage.

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

5. What do most new generations confront as a result of scientific and technological changes?
(a) Possibilities for artificial wisdom.
(b) Increased identity confusion.
(c) Radically new possibilities and forms of thought.
(d) A repeat of the past.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Erikson believe is an intrinsic part of maturation?

2. What does Erikson state youth need so they do not languish in a strictly episodical conscious expansion?

3. What two characteristics does Erikson believe are central to the female identity?

4. That does introjection mean in terms of Erikson's stages of identity development for groups other than the majority?

5. What term does Erikson use to refer to the methods used throughout history to integrate identity?

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