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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 Shaw find his childhood exposures to have been?
(a) Extraordinary.
(b) Intrusively noisy.
(c) Enlightening.
(d) Destructive.

2. What is one thing that Erikson states comes with each stage of identity development?
(a) Understanding of self.
(b) Closing off of society.
(c) A widening social radius.
(d) An emotional separation.

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

4. In terms of Erikson's theory of individual development, what is required in order to transcend toward individuality?
(a) Identity.
(b) Family support.
(c) Meditation.
(d) Intelligence.

5. What do most new generations confront as a result of scientific and technological changes?
(a) A repeat of the past.
(b) Radically new possibilities and forms of thought.
(c) Increased identity confusion.
(d) Possibilities for artificial wisdom.

Short Answer Questions

1. As noted in Chapter 2, how can false or inaccurate ego identity formations be corrected after being developed by parents in terms of group identity development?

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

3. What do many youth move back and forth between in terms of dysfunctional modes of Erikson's theory of identity development?

4. Erikson notes that James' youth was full of emotional strains in struggles for what?

5. What are two characteristics Erikson applies to the task of the ego in order to maintain and organize its existence?

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