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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author state that extended separation from a mother can cause a child?
(a) Pain and permanent damage.
(b) A good chance to socialize with other people.
(c) Hunger.
(d) A sense of independence.

2. Name the experimental psychologist who convinced people it was acceptable to continue shocking subjects despite their response to pain.
(a) B.F. Skinner.
(b) Jean Piaget.
(c) Richard Paredes.
(d) Stanley Milgram.

3. Some children develop a false self from what type of parenting?
(a) Strict parenting.
(b) Imaginative parenting.
(c) Over-protective parenting.
(d) Uninvolved parenting.

4. What does Viorst explain we are trying to accomplish when we try to "undo' the separation from our mother?
(a) Seeking the unconditional love of our mother's arms.
(b) Proving we are competent individuals.
(c) Learning to accept and love ourselves.
(d) Vying for our father's affection.

5. Sigmund Freud once said, "When you meet a human being, the first distinction you make is ______________?"
(a) Smart or stupid.
(b) Male or female.
(c) Old or young.
(d) Crazy or sane.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 5 states that even an average mother is perceived by a child as _____________.

2. While in the hospital, a little boy who was set on fire by his mother is crying for whom?

3. Repression, reaction formation, isolation, and denial are all mechanisms of defense against what?

4. Viorst feels that only through _____________ can "our loss be transcended."

5. According to Freud, when does the age of latency occur?

(see the answer key)

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