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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. In light of Erikson's view on identity development within communities, what must communities recognize in youth?
(a) Their identity.
(b) Their rebellion.
(c) Their energy.
(d) Their lack of identity.

2. How does man quantify attributes of himself philosophically and psychologically in terms of Erikson's views of identity development?
(a) Uses the words Us and We.
(b) Uses the words I and self.
(c) Understands the whole society.
(d) Accepts imperfections.

3. Considering Freud's elements of the mind, what are the counterweights of the ego?
(a) Id and society.
(b) Self and society.
(c) Id and superego.
(d) Environment and society.

4. Within the Erikson's system of the self-concept, what is produced by the ego?
(a) Self-preservation.
(b) Self-loathing.
(c) Self-representation.
(d) Self-respect.

5. What can reinforce the process of negative identity formation in terms of Erikson's stages of identity development?
(a) Weak ego.
(b) Negative parental reactions.
(c) Arrogance.
(d) Biology.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the discussion in Chapter 2, the process of the ego helps individuals maintain their personalities and what type of fashion?

2. What does Erikson wish youth would search for?

3. What do environmental counterweights of identity help explain in terms of Freud's theory of identity?

4. Interpreting Freud's theory, what does Erikson feel occurs when the ego resists integrating into new environments?

5. What does Erikson risk in plotting a new course of understanding regarding identity and ego development?

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