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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Erikson, what must be understood in order to define the ego?
(a) Nature.
(b) Genetics.
(c) Individual differences.
(d) Society.

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

4. According to Erikson, by meeting the youth's needs what occurs in terms of the historical context?
(a) Nothing.
(b) It is passed on to the next generation of youth.
(c) It is forgotten.
(d) Youth are integrated in it.

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

6. In light of Erikson's view on identity development within communities, what must communities recognize in youth?
(a) Their identity.
(b) Their energy.
(c) Their rebellion.
(d) Their lack of identity.

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. Interpreting Freud's theory, what does Erikson feel occurs when the ego resists integrating into new environments?
(a) Identity loss.
(b) Identity displacement.
(c) Identity confusion.
(d) Identity resistance.

14. What aspect of life does Erikson suggest women suffer over excessively?
(a) Getting a better job.
(b) Finding identity.
(c) Having a family.
(d) Helping other.

15. What do the elements of the self produce in light of Erikson's theory of identity development?
(a) A composite of self.
(b) A potential identity.
(c) A composite of society.
(d) An understanding.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Erikson suggest black be integrated with?

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

3. What do youth desire as they go through Erikson's stages of identity development?

4. How does Erikson say black males have been exploited?

5. What, according to Erikson, is destructive for blacks?

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