View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Based on Erikson's studies, what directly influences the egos process of self integration?
(a) Family.
(b) Historical reality and context.
(c) Self.
(d) Society.

2. What might the older generation, as suggested by Erikson, use youth's need for joining to satisfy?
(a) Need for fidelity.
(b) Need for conformity.
(c) Need for independence.
(d) Need to rebel.

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

4. What does Erikson suggest wholeness of the individual is associated with?
(a) Totalitarianism.
(b) Equilibrium and health.
(c) Positive psychology.
(d) The earth.

5. According to Erikson in Chapter 2, what occurs when the ego combines elements that result in an inability to form a positive self-image?
(a) Negative identity formation.
(b) Ego synthesis fails.
(c) Stereotyping.
(d) No identity formation.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. During the third stage of Erikson's theory of development, what may occur if an individual's initiatives or attempts at something continually fail?

3. During Erikson's final stage of development, individuals having a sense of Generativity may engage in what type of activities?

4. Erikson states that we deal with the process located in the core of the individual and where else?

5. What does William James state is discernible in mental or moral attitudes?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 260 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample