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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 type of self is clear when examining Freud's dreams?
(a) Suppressed self.
(b) Open-minded self.
(c) Confident self.
(d) Identified self.

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

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

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

5. In the early 20th century, totalitarian disposition is best understood as what?
(a) Community needs.
(b) The self as separate from others.
(c) A universal human related to all parts of human nature.
(d) It was not understood at all.

Short Answer Questions

1. As noted in Chapter 2, how can false or inaccurate ego identity formations be corrected after being developed by parents in terms of group identity development?

2. When does the normative crisis of identity formation occur?

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

4. Because of an individual's tendency to define self based on history, what does Erikson think this self-based history leave little room for the individual to create?

5. According to Erikson, what does totalitarianism require of society?

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