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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. Based on Freud's theory of identity, Ego identity results in two actions, one of which is synthesizing the frontiers of the ego; what is the other action?
(a) Analyzing the frontiers of the ego.
(b) Merging self with the environment.
(c) Completing identity.
(d) Merging self with the past.

2. What is the nature of psychoanalysis as viewed by Erikson?
(a) Observational.
(b) Implicit.
(c) Empirical.
(d) Explicit.

3. What do environmental counterweights of identity help explain in terms of Freud's theory of identity?
(a) Inner world of the ego.
(b) Outer world of the ego.
(c) Society.
(d) Self.

4. Why does Erikson suggest women are more passive than men?
(a) Psychology.
(b) Environment.
(c) Biology.
(d) Socialization.

5. What does Erikson propose reflects the body, personality, and social roles of the person?
(a) I.
(b) We.
(c) Us.
(d) Them.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What two characteristics does Erikson believe are central to the female identity?

4. What do youth try to balance while going through Erikson's stages of identity development?

5. Why does Erikson suggest men are resistant to respond to women?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Erikson state that it is difficult for black mothers to push their children to be educated?

2. What does the process of identity confirmation include?

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

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

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

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

7. What is the overriding issue concerning Erikson's proposal of ideologies and identity development?

8. Why does Erikson feel it is necessary to explore emotional reactions and resistance in terms of women's position in the world?

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

10. Why does Erikson feel it is important to have a clear identity when one has numerous options for identity available?

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