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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. Concerning Erikson's theory, when identity development is negative, what type of personalities may occur during the second stage of development?
(a) Arrogance.
(b) Maladaptive behaviors.
(c) Compulsive.
(d) Antisocial.

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

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

4. What term does Erikson use to mean the factor that serves to integrate a person toward a common societal goal?
(a) Group identity.
(b) Sexual identity.
(c) Ego identity.
(d) Gender identity.

5. What does George Bernard Shaw despise?
(a) Psychology.
(b) His family's snobbery.
(c) His family history.
(d) His adolescence.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does the process of identity formation began?

3. What is present within each period of Erikson's theory of identity development?

4. In Chapter 2, what does Erikson feel about how psychologists treat social dynamics and external social elements?

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

(see the answer key)

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