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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. As discussed in Chapter 1, what first lead to the scientific mythology of the mind?
(a) The mentally ill.
(b) Understanding of neurons.
(c) Interest in technology.
(d) The newness of man's self awareness.

2. According to Erikson, by meeting the youth's needs what occurs in terms of the historical context?
(a) Nothing.
(b) It is passed on to the next generation of youth.
(c) Youth are integrated in it.
(d) It is forgotten.

3. What does Erikson state youth need so they do not languish in a strictly episodical conscious expansion?
(a) A set of guidelines for identity.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Leadership that can be resistant.
(d) Understanding of the past.

4. During Erikson's final stage of development, individuals having a sense of Generativity may engage in what type of activities?
(a) Leading future generations to succeed.
(b) Planing for the future.
(c) Listlessness.
(d) Finding a new job.

5. Because of an individual's tendency to define self based on history, what does Erikson think this self-based history leave little room for the individual to create?
(a) New understanding.
(b) New identity.
(c) New traditions.
(d) New support systems.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Erikson's theory suggest concerning how children gain a sense of what their adult identities should be?

3. Why was Erikson so impressed with Shaw?

4. According to Freud, what is the third stage of development called?

5. What to processes, according to Erikson as discussed in Chapter 5, are tied together?

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