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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Foundations in Observation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the definition of "identity" subject to?
(a) Changes in history.
(b) The researcher.
(c) The future.
(d) The individual.

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

3. What term does Erikson use to mean the factor that serves to integrate a person toward a common societal goal?
(a) Sexual identity.
(b) Ego identity.
(c) Group identity.
(d) Gender identity.

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) In his past.
(d) The core of his communal culture.

5. In discussing Freud's views on group identity, what does Erikson state is a major cause in identity becoming frustrating and disintegrated?
(a) When the role of identity in a group changes.
(b) When there are too many leaders.
(c) When groups members do not have their own identity.
(d) When the group disbands.

Short Answer Questions

1. What style of identity combines medieval conception of community with modern disobedience and nonviolence?

2. What is one example that Erikson provides for the notion of "evil ego identity"?

3. What does Erikson state that childhood and youth predispose men to?

4. As discussed in Chapter 1, what first lead to the scientific mythology of the mind?

5. What does William James state is discernible in mental or moral attitudes?

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