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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 self actualized identities.
(b) They yearn for love and become a joiner.
(c) They remain isolated.
(d) They develop aggressive identities.

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

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

4. 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) Understands the whole society.
(d) Accepts imperfections.

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

6. How does feminists often react during times of identity development and social change, as proposed in Erikson's theory?
(a) With indifference.
(b) Strongly.
(c) Weakly.
(d) Revert to old ways.

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

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

9. What to processes, according to Erikson as discussed in Chapter 5, are tied together?
(a) Social and environmental.
(b) Ego and environmental.
(c) Ego and self identification.
(d) Ego and social.

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

11. Why does Erikson feel focus has moved to women?
(a) They are more than housewives.
(b) Threat of nuclear annihilation.
(c) They have a lot to offer.
(d) They are equal to men.

12. What are women isolated by during Erikson's stages of identity development?
(a) Their outer productive space.
(b) Their fathers.
(c) Their inner productive space.
(d) Their mothers.

13. What does Erikson risk in plotting a new course of understanding regarding identity and ego development?
(a) Offending other scientists.
(b) Finding the truth.
(c) There are no risks.
(d) Being one sided.

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

15. What do youth recognize the need for during Erikson's stages of identity development?
(a) Friends.
(b) Family.
(c) Community.
(d) Loyalty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Erikson feel ego strength some from in youth?

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

3. In light of Erikson's view on identity development within communities, what must communities recognize in youth?

4. According to Erikson, what action by youth may lead to dangerous behaviors?

5. According to Erikson, how are oppressed groups' negative identities confirmed?

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