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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. According to Chapter 8, it is believed that girls have a greater _______________ ability as opposed to boys.

2. At the end of Chapter 8, Margaret Mead uses what type of profession in her analogy about accepting what we were born with?

3. What does Viorst explain we are trying to accomplish when we try to "undo' the separation from our mother?

4. How is it believed that infants perceive their needs in relation to their mother?

5. "Reality testing" means what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What support does Viorst give to the Cinderella Complex?

2. Why do psychologists think the "Mommy and I Are One" experiments worked?

3. What happens when we do not behave in accordance with our conscience?

4. Why does J.D. Salinger's character from The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield, not want to grow up?

5. Excessive punishment of ourselves rests on the illusion of what?

6. Why did Freud name it the Oedipus complex?

7. What did Stanley Milgram's experiment reveal about people?

8. According to Chapter 9, what kind of person lacks guilt?

9. Despite a constant desire for independence, why do young children keep coming back to their mothers?

10. What are the four stages of human development that many analysts agree upon and how are they similar to each other?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast normal/healthy mourning with that of chronic mourning, according to the book. How are they similar? What is different about the process of chronic mourning? Can grief be resolved through either process?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the process of us becoming our own person. How is our identity primarily formed? What pitfalls may we encounter along the way? How do our parents influence the process? Do they hinder or encourage the discovery of our primary self?

Essay Topic 3

When mothers who reject our dependency push us from the nest too soon, the author says, we "adapt, or crumple, or compromise." Discuss the ways in which children can respond to each individual situation. In what ways can parents help children through such an experience? Why do you feel parents sometimes prematurely demand independence from their children?

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