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

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

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

4. According to Erikson in terms of active identity formation individual who now can say they know where they are going, what has occurred?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Psychosocial well-being.
(c) Identity completion.
(d) Psychological superiority.

5. During the third stage of Erikson's theory of development, what may occur if an individual's initiatives or attempts at something continually fail?
(a) Compulsions.
(b) Sense of guilt.
(c) Sense of independence.
(d) Identity confusion.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Erikson, how long does it take for identity to develop?

2. What can reinforce the process of negative identity formation in terms of Erikson's stages of identity development?

3. That does introjection mean in terms of Erikson's stages of identity development for groups other than the majority?

4. What does Freud's consciousness of inner identity include?

5. What is the core part of identity formation that cannot be separated from this formation?

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