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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Erikson feel happens when a healthy personality deals with conflict?
(a) They lose their identity.
(b) They actively master the situation.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Their identity becomes confused.

2. The ________ cannot coexist with the increase in advances in a technologically led culture?
(a) The dislike of regimentation and military enthusiasm.
(b) Conformity of one.
(c) True identity formation of ego.
(d) The combination of individuality and the community.

3. What might gaining a stronger self identity correspond to in relation to the majority of the population?
(a) Totalitarianism.
(b) Emancipation from society.
(c) Anarchy.
(d) A strong societal bond.

4. During the Erikson's second stage of development, what does the individual gain when identity has developed in a healthy manner?
(a) Mental development.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Confidence and control over himself.
(d) Independence.

5. Because of an individual's tendency to define self based on history, what does Erikson think this self-based history leave little room for the individual to create?
(a) New support systems.
(b) New traditions.
(c) New identity.
(d) New understanding.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Erikson suggest society's child training systems does for the uniqueness of society?

2. Where does the process of identity formation began?

3. In Chapter 2, what does Erikson feel about how psychologists treat social dynamics and external social elements?

4. In the early 20th century, totalitarian disposition is best understood as what?

5. Why does Erikson warn the reader not to expect any solid development of mythology in terms of integrating the work on identity over the past two decades?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Erikson use child training to describe group identity formation?

2. Why is a feeling of wholeness by the final stages of Erikson's identity development necessary in creating a positive identity?

3. How do parents trigger transference in the formulation of evil ego identity as children move through Erikson's developmental stages?

4. What does Erikson suggest that historical periods usually offer a limited number of models in order to develop identity?

5. According to Erikson, why is early adolescents signified by feelings of initiative or guilt?

6. According to Erikson, why might it be petty to attempt to define "identity" or "identity crisis"?

7. According to Erikson, what is our earliest undifferentiated sense of identity?

8. What does Erikson suggest is immune to the failure of ego synthesis?

9. Why might it be reasonable to think pathological and developmental aspects of identity?

10. What is Erikson suggest it is a good thing that the term crisis no longer means solely a bad event?

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