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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 two characteristics does Erikson believe are central to the female identity?
(a) Sterness and family.
(b) Empathy and happiness.
(c) Independence and family.
(d) Empathy and family.

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

3. Within the Erikson's system of the self-concept, what is produced by the ego?
(a) Self-preservation.
(b) Self-loathing.
(c) Self-representation.
(d) Self-respect.

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

5. What might the older generation, as suggested by Erikson, use youth's need for joining to satisfy?
(a) Need to rebel.
(b) Need for fidelity.
(c) Need for conformity.
(d) Need for independence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Erikson suggest occurs in institutionalized settings such as a hospital with regard to identity?

2. What type of groups, as proposed by Erikson, often play on the various needs of youth?

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

4. What often occurs when youth are isolated according to Erikson's theory of identity development?

5. What does Erikson suggest defines much of a woman's identity?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What are the characteristics of youth leaders, in terms of Erikson's theory?

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

9. What aspects are involved in defining the ego?

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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