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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Race and Wider Identity.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Erikson, in his review and observations of changes in culture, what does he suggest will become common values among today's youth?
(a) Choice and identity.
(b) Common identity.
(c) Dissonance.
(d) Leadership.

2. According to Erikson in terms of active identity formation individual who now can say they know where they are going, what has occurred?
(a) Identity completion.
(b) Psychological superiority.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Psychosocial well-being.

3. What term does Erikson use for a biological life cycle?
(a) Ego.
(b) Id.
(c) Soma.
(d) Psyche.

4. What dose Erikson say psychoanalysts' fail to recognize about the ego?
(a) It cannot exist without human social organization.
(b) It depends on the individual.
(c) It is based solely on environment.
(d) It can exist without human social organization.

5. According to Erikson, how long does it take for identity to develop?
(a) A lifetime.
(b) Identity if formed at birth.
(c) 30 years.
(d) 5 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can reinforce the process of negative identity formation in terms of Erikson's stages of identity development?

2. In Chapter 8, what does Erikson suggest is a natural characteristic of identity?

3. What do most new generations confront as a result of scientific and technological changes?

4. What type of groups, as proposed by Erikson, often play on the various needs of youth?

5. According to Freud, what is the second stage of identity development called?

(see the answer key)

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