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

2. What does William James state is discernible in mental or moral attitudes?
(a) Character.
(b) Family.
(c) Culture.
(d) History.

3. What does Erikson state youth need so they do not languish in a strictly episodical conscious expansion?
(a) Leadership that can be resistant.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) A set of guidelines for identity.
(d) Understanding of the past.

4. According to Erikson, in his review and observations of changes in culture, what does he suggest will become common values among today's youth?
(a) Choice and identity.
(b) Leadership.
(c) Dissonance.
(d) Common identity.

5. What does Erikson suggest wholeness of the individual is associated with?
(a) The earth.
(b) Equilibrium and health.
(c) Positive psychology.
(d) Totalitarianism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What example does Erikson use in Foundations of Observation to clarify the disintegration of ego synthesis?

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

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

5. 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?

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