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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Erikson, what action by youth may lead to dangerous behaviors?
(a) Trying to gain independence.
(b) Doubting elders.
(c) Thinking they know everything.
(d) Not seeking support during identity development.

2. 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?
(a) Merging self with the past.
(b) Merging self with the environment.
(c) Completing identity.
(d) Analyzing the frontiers of the ego.

3. How does Erikson feel various features of humanity should be examined?
(a) Through observations.
(b) Through discussion.
(c) They need not be examined.
(d) Empirically.

4. Where does Erikson feel our self representations stem from?
(a) History.
(b) Parents.
(c) Future prospects.
(d) Psychosocial crises of childhood.

5. What does Erikson feel the biological process of psychoanalysis has become?
(a) Essential but not emphasized enough.
(b) The forefront of study.
(c) Obsolete.
(d) Pseudobiology.

6. What are women able to process better than men, according to Erikson?
(a) Discrimination.
(b) Scientific material.
(c) Verbal material.
(d) Logic.

7. What two components within Erikson's theory are important for youth to base their identities on?
(a) Future and childhood.
(b) Childhood and ideologies.
(c) Morals and community structure.
(d) Ideologies and the future.

8. What does Erikson suggest might save blacks from having to integrate their identities based on their own decision to do so?
(a) Community.
(b) Public policy.
(c) Religion.
(d) Family.

9. What does Erikson suggest defines much of a woman's identity?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) How many children she has.
(c) Who she marries.
(d) Attractiveness to men.

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

11. What does Erikson propose reflects the body, personality, and social roles of the person?
(a) Us.
(b) I.
(c) We.
(d) Them.

12. Where does Erikson feel ego strength some from in youth?
(a) Confirmation of conformity.
(b) Parents.
(c) Community.
(d) Confirmation of individuality.

13. Why does Erikson suggest women are more passive than men?
(a) Environment.
(b) Biology.
(c) Psychology.
(d) Socialization.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Erikson state that remorseful majorities be watched?

2. What does Erikson state the ego is in that it knows and understands where it wants to go?

3. What do youth recognize the need for during Erikson's stages of identity development?

4. Why does Erikson feel focus has moved to women?

5. Interpreting Freud's theory, what does Erikson feel occurs when the ego resists integrating into new environments?

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