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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What might the older generation, as suggested by Erikson, use youth's need for joining to satisfy?
(a) Need for conformity.
(b) Need for fidelity.
(c) Need for independence.
(d) Need to rebel.

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

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

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

7. How is Erikson's theory of identity consciousness overcome?
(a) We are always conscious of our identity.
(b) Through self actualization.
(c) When a person gives up searching for identity.
(d) When a sense of identity is achieved.

8. What does Erikson wish youth would search for?
(a) Truth based on society.
(b) Common ground with society.
(c) Something not sanctioned by society.
(d) Self.

9. According to Erikson, how are oppressed groups' negative identities confirmed?
(a) By their actions.
(b) When minorities recognize they are oppressed.
(c) When majorities recognize their oppression.
(d) When majorities deny their oppression.

10. What according to Erikson, what involves testing, selecting, and integrating self images?
(a) Community structures.
(b) Self-esteem.
(c) Ego identity.
(d) Wisdom.

11. How does Erikson say black males have been exploited?
(a) As humans.
(b) Psychologically.
(c) Physically.
(d) As domestic animals.

12. In terms of Erikson's theory of identity development, what is one notion that youth resist?
(a) Youth do not resist.
(b) The present.
(c) The future.
(d) The past.

13. Why does Erikson suggest men are resistant to respond to women?
(a) Age-old psychological reasons.
(b) They are frightened.
(c) Age-old physical reasons.
(d) It is not proper.

14. What does Erikson say must not happen with strong black mothers?
(a) They must not be so overbearing.
(b) They must not be negatively stereotyped.
(c) They must continue their struggles.
(d) They must not be positively stereotyped.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Erikson, by meeting the youth's needs what occurs in terms of the historical context?

2. 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?

3. Based on Freud's theory of identity, Ego identity results in two actions, one of which is synthesizing the frontiers of the ego; what is the other action?

4. How does man quantify attributes of himself philosophically and psychologically in terms of Erikson's views of identity development?

5. What does Erikson resist characterizing modern youth as?

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