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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 Freud, what is the first stage of identity development called?
(a) Oral stage.
(b) Anal stage.
(c) Phallic stage.
(d) Latent stage.

2. In Chapter 2, what does Erikson feel about how psychologists treat social dynamics and external social elements?
(a) The coexist.
(b) As surface events.
(c) As deep rooted elements of social identity.
(d) As keys to social competence.

3. What does Erikson feel an inclusive identity is contained in?
(a) Modern society.
(b) Education.
(c) Technology.
(d) Modern religion.

4. Why does Erikson state that remorseful majorities be watched?
(a) They may become oppressed.
(b) They may lose their identity.
(c) They may not really be remorseful.
(d) They may repeat habitual patterns.

5. What does Freud suggest a fearless freedom of thinking is?
(a) Totalitarianism.
(b) Unattainable.
(c) Negative identity.
(d) Positive identity.

Short Answer Questions

1. The oppression of blacks, according to Erikson has done what to the mother-father presence?

2. At what stage in Erikson's theory of development may an individual begin to lose confidence or identity and enter period of listlessness?

3. That does introjection mean in terms of Erikson's stages of identity development for groups other than the majority?

4. In the early 20th century, totalitarian disposition is best understood as what?

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

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