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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 suggest occurs in institutionalized settings such as a hospital with regard to identity?
(a) Desperation for identity.
(b) Conformity of identity.
(c) Emergence of self.
(d) Development of oneliness.

2. What do youth try to balance while going through Erikson's stages of identity development?
(a) Diversity and identity.
(b) Diversity and society.
(c) Fidelity and diversity.
(d) Fidelity and identity.

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

4. Considering Freud's elements of the mind, what are the counterweights of the ego?
(a) Id and superego.
(b) Self and society.
(c) Environment and society.
(d) Id and society.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In order to successful integration to occur what does Erikson feel must fit together?

2. What does Erikson feel about psychoanalysts' use of biology?

3. What according to Erikson, what involves testing, selecting, and integrating self images?

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

5. What does Erikson suggest has led to the focus on women's position in the world?

Short Essay Questions

1. What role does the psychoanalyst play in helping an individual in terms of developing identity according to the theory set forth by Erikson?

2. How does Erikson propose a sketch of psychopathology can help make sense of a new identity?

3. What does Erikson mean when he refers to the adaptive ego?

4. What is Erikson state that is so difficult for black youth to find their identity?

5. What aspects are involved in defining the ego?

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

7. Why does Erikson think that biology is shallow and inaccurate?

8. According to Erikson, why are youth so sensitive to the identities of the past?

9. Why does Erikson's notion of identity resistance often occur and therapy?

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

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