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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 example does Erikson use in Foundations of Observation to clarify the disintegration of ego synthesis?
(a) Wartime trauma.
(b) Adolescence.
(c) Homelessness.
(d) Natural disasters.

2. 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.

3. In order to create a positive ego what does Erikson state must be tested?
(a) Mental acuity.
(b) Ability for introspection.
(c) Current reality against identity.
(d) Current intelligence and identity.

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

5. What does Erikson state that childhood and youth predispose men to?
(a) Childlike wonder.
(b) Confused identities.
(c) Structure.
(d) Totalitarianism.

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. According to Erikson, in his review and observations of changes in culture, what does he suggest will become common values among today's youth?

3. Why does Erikson warn the reader not to expect any solid development of mythology in terms of integrating the work on identity over the past two decades?

4. The ________ cannot coexist with the increase in advances in a technologically led culture?

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

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