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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Toward Contemporary Issues, Youth.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Erikson state is the first age of identity development involve in terms of conflict?
(a) Autonomy vs. shame.
(b) Trust vs. mistrust.
(c) Initiative vs. Guilt.
(d) Intimacy vs. isolation.

2. What does Erikson feel may have been lost to modernity?
(a) Self-preservation.
(b) Cosmic wholeness.
(c) Self-identity.
(d) Ideologies.

3. Based on Freud's theory of identity, Ego identity results in two actions, one of which is synthesizing the frontiers of the ego; what is the other action?
(a) Analyzing the frontiers of the ego.
(b) Completing identity.
(c) Merging self with the environment.
(d) Merging self with the past.

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. What type of groups, as proposed by Erikson, often play on the various needs of youth?
(a) Schools.
(b) Political undergrounds.
(c) Parents.
(d) Community organizations.

Short Answer Questions

1. What might the older generation, as suggested by Erikson, use youth's need for joining to satisfy?

2. What was William James obsessed with his entire life?

3. How does man quantify attributes of himself philosophically and psychologically in terms of Erikson's views of identity development?

4. What aspects of Freud's theory of development does a functional ego integrate?

5. Concerning Erikson's theory, when identity development is negative, what type of personalities may occur during the second stage of development?

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