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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What elements of Erikson's theory must be balanced in order to avoid obsessiveness and relativism?

2. What does Erikson say must not happen with strong black mothers?

3. What are women isolated by during Erikson's stages of identity development?

4. Why does Erikson state that remorseful majorities be watched?

5. What does Erikson wish youth would search for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What aspects are involved in defining the ego?

2. What does Erikson think is the driving force for the more inclusive identity?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Erikson discusses that identity development of women. Outline the history of women's identity that has resulted in the current collective identity of women. Begin from that late 18th century and go to the present.

Essay Topic 2

Is identity formation guaranteed with age? If yes, discuss the result of identity formation on the elderly? If no, discuss what is necessary for this process to occur?

Essay Topic 3

Erikson titles Chapter 5 "Theoretical Interlude." For literary standpoint as well as instructional standpoint what is the purpose of Chapter 5? How this stopping the flow of information to discuss theory helps the readers better understand Erickson's few of identity development?

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