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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What often occurs when youth are isolated according to Erikson's theory of identity development?
(a) They develop aggressive identities.
(b) They develop self actualized identities.
(c) They remain isolated.
(d) They yearn for love and become a joiner.

2. What does Erikson feel has barker elements that may not be wholly sincere?
(a) Helpless feelings of women.
(b) Oppression of women.
(c) Identity of women.
(d) Emancipation of women.

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

4. What does Erikson suggest is in the domain of the inter agency that produces a coherent existence?
(a) Environment.
(b) Biology.
(c) The ego.
(d) Ancestors.

5. How does man quantify attributes of himself philosophically and psychologically in terms of Erikson's views of identity development?
(a) Uses the words I and self.
(b) Uses the words Us and We.
(c) Accepts imperfections.
(d) Understands the whole society.

6. What does Erikson say about the absence of black fathers?
(a) It is the downfall of the race.
(b) It is the only reason for identity confusion.
(c) It is only psychologically.
(d) It is physically.

7. What, according to Erikson, is destructive for blacks?
(a) Group identity.
(b) Positive identity.
(c) Gender identity.
(d) Negative identity.

8. What elements of Erikson's theory must be balanced in order to avoid obsessiveness and relativism?
(a) Morals.
(b) Priorities.
(c) Family.
(d) Ideals.

9. Who does Erikson use as an example to discuss the identity of blacks?
(a) Freud.
(b) W.E.B. DuBois.
(c) C.S. Lewis.
(d) Martian Luther King.

10. Who does Erikson suggest black be integrated with?
(a) Other minorities.
(b) Americans with a more exclusive identity.
(c) Only the majority.
(d) Americans with a more inclusive identity.

11. Why does Erikson think the black identity has been confused?
(a) Historical events.
(b) Negativity of black writers.
(c) Many do not fully understand identity.
(d) Lack of study of this population.

12. How are Erikson's ideologies of youth fulfilled?
(a) By the youth themselves.
(b) By society.
(c) Technology.
(d) Intellectual cultivation.

13. What does Erikson state the ego is in that it knows and understands where it wants to go?
(a) Introspective.
(b) Whole.
(c) Intelligent.
(d) Forward looking.

14. What type of feelings does Erikson proposed are experienced by those in oppressed groups?
(a) Superiority and self-love.
(b) Inferiority and self-hate.
(c) Interest in other groups.
(d) Indifference and loathing.

15. 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?
(a) They form distinct identities.
(b) They may become isolated.
(c) They can not form their identities.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. In terms of Erikson's theory of identity development, what is one notion that youth resist?

2. What term does Erikson use for a biological life cycle?

3. What do environmental counterweights of identity help explain in terms of Freud's theory of identity?

4. What are women isolated by during Erikson's stages of identity development?

5. What dose Erikson say psychoanalysts' fail to recognize about the ego?

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