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

2. 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?
(a) Through psychotherapy.
(b) By immersion.
(c) By reworking associations.
(d) They cannot be corrected.

3. What style of identity combines medieval conception of community with modern disobedience and nonviolence?
(a) Anarchy.
(b) Conformity.
(c) Peacenik.
(d) Individual.

4. According to Erikson, what does totalitarianism require of society?
(a) A sense of legitimacy of state power.
(b) A combination of identities.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Conformity.

5. Erikson feels that Freud's intellect is a gift that stems from what?
(a) A good education.
(b) A strong identity.
(c) Good genes.
(d) A hostile limitation of opportunities.

Short Answer Questions

1. In developing Erikson' theory of group identity, what two processes must the ego consist of that assist in defining both body in community membership?

2. In Chapter 2, Foundations and Observation, during his discussion on group identity, what group of people does Erikson observe group changes to make his point?

3. According to the discussion in Chapter 2, the process of the ego helps individuals maintain their personalities and what type of fashion?

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

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

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