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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. What does Erikson feel one must explore in a discussion of women that may block meaningful discussion?
(a) Physical reactions and resistances.
(b) Psychological reactions and resistances.
(c) Emotional reactions and resistances.
(d) Intellectual reactions and resistances.

2. During the fourth stage of Erikson's theory of development, what occurs when an individual is successful?
(a) Feelings of superiority.
(b) Feelings of industry.
(c) Feelings of independence.
(d) Feelings of guilt.

3. Where does the process of identity formation began?
(a) With mother and baby.
(b) As a toddler.
(c) As a young adult.
(d) As an adolescent.

4. According to Erikson in Chapter 2, what does personal identity focus on?
(a) Unconscious feelings.
(b) Conscious feelings.
(c) Feelings of others.
(d) Place in society.

5. What does it mean when the author states, "to review the concept of identity"?
(a) Write an outline.
(b) Sketch its history.
(c) Disprove identity.
(d) Give a lecture.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Erikson indicate many psychoanalysts think humans are predisposed to do?

2. What does the process of meeting fidelity do for Erikson's theory of youth identity?

3. According to Erikson, what is the third stage of development?

4. What does Erikson feel happens when a healthy personality deals with conflict?

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

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