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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Womanhood and the Inner Space.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the final stages of Erikson's stages of identity development, what type of feelings may individual experiencing stagnation feel?
(a) Reflection.
(b) Calmness.
(c) Hope for the future.
(d) Despair and hopelessness.

2. What do many youth move back and forth between in terms of dysfunctional modes of Erikson's theory of identity development?
(a) Mild conformity and mild deviancy.
(b) Devoted conformity and extreme deviancy.
(c) Devoted conformity and devotion to self.
(d) Extreme deviancy and repentance.

3. How does Erikson think ideologies should be filled?
(a) Technology.
(b) By society.
(c) By the youth themselves.
(d) Intellectual cultivation.

4. When does the normative crisis of identity formation occur?
(a) Adolescence.
(b) As a toddler.
(c) As an adult.
(d) With mother and baby.

5. What does Erikson suggest occurs in institutionalized settings such as a hospital with regard to identity?
(a) Conformity of identity.
(b) Development of oneliness.
(c) Desperation for identity.
(d) Emergence of self.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of self is clear when examining Freud's dreams?

2. According to Erikson in terms of active identity formation individual who now can say they know where they are going, what has occurred?

3. Throughout the stages of Erikson's theory of identity development, what happens if youth do not take advantage of the wisdom elders have to share?

4. What does Erikson feel one must explore in a discussion of women that may block meaningful discussion?

5. According to Erikson's theory, what is psychologically different between males and females?

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