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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Identity Confusion in Life History and Case History.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How the James decide he could strengthen his ego?
(a) Embracing positive experiences.
(b) Meditating and breathing.
(c) Simply learning.
(d) By doing, suffering, and creating.

2. What is the core part of identity formation that cannot be separated from this formation?
(a) Authority acceptance.
(b) Peace of mind.
(c) Individuality.
(d) Collectivism.

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

4. What term does Erikson use to refer to the methods used throughout history to integrate identity?
(a) Methods of identity.
(b) Methods of acquisition.
(c) Methods of conformity.
(d) Methods of group formation.

5. What does the success of identification during Erikson's stages of development depend on?
(a) Nothing.
(b) It is society specific.
(c) Interacting with trustworthy models.
(d) Parental support.

Short Answer Questions

1. As discussed in Chapter 2, who is able to trigger transference of models of identity formation within younger members of society?

2. Erikson feels that Freud's intellect is a gift that stems from what?

3. Considering Erikson's stages of identity development, how long does a six stage of identity development last?

4. At what stage in Erikson's theory of development may an individual begin to lose confidence or identity and enter period of listlessness?

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

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