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

2. What type of groups, as proposed by Erikson, often play on the various needs of youth?
(a) Community organizations.
(b) Parents.
(c) Political undergrounds.
(d) Schools.

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

4. What is the critical stage of Erikson's theory of development where women develop their female identity?
(a) When they leave the family.
(b) This never fully forms.
(c) When they have children.
(d) When they get married.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How is identity diffusion manifested during the adolescent stages of Erikson's theory of identity development?

3. How is Erikson's theory of identity consciousness overcome?

4. What are two characteristics of women that Erikson presents in Chapter 7?

5. What does the process of meeting fidelity do for Erikson's theory of youth identity?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Erikson feel that terms such as "I" or "self" are confusing?

2. According to Erikson, why is preoccupation with identity the symptom of alienation?

3. Rather than suggesting modern youth pathological what does Erikson youth to understand?

4. What does Erikson think is different about the male and female focus of identity?

5. According to post-Freudian theory, how is culture developed around women?

6. The why does Erikson feel that anatomy is destiny?

7. What resulted from Marx-Freud polarization?

8. What is the difference between the Ego and "I"?

9. Why does Erikson believe political underground groups often target youth?

10. In Chapter 5, why has Erikson replace the term identity confusion with identity diffusion?

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