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

2. In the beginning of the 20th century, what demonstrated the possibility to destroy human kind?
(a) Pseudospecies.
(b) Negative identity formation.
(c) Individuality.
(d) Peaceniks.

3. What does Freud suggest a fearless freedom of thinking is?
(a) Positive identity.
(b) Totalitarianism.
(c) Unattainable.
(d) Negative identity.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Because the terms "identity" and "identity crisis" are used in such a variety of situations, what have these terms become?

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