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1
During the last year of her life, Erik Erikson's mother revealed the name of her son's biological father.
A)True
B)False
2
Erikson began his professional career as an artist.
A)True
B)False
3
According to Erikson, people experience little personal growth after adolescence.
A)True
B)False
4
An identity crisis can emerge only after a person experiences a catastrophe.
A)True
B)False
5
Erikson saw the ego as being capable of adapting to changes throughout the life cycle.
A)True
B)False
6
Erikson believed that anatomy rather than culture has a strong influence on how the ego will develop.
A)True
B)False
7
Healthy psychological development depends on a conflict between harmonious and disruptive elements, according to Erikson.
A)True
B)False
8
Each of Erikson's stages has a psychosexual mode, a psychosocial crisis, a basic strength, and a core pathology.
A)True
B)False
9
Erikson's concept of the Oedipus complex is nearly identical to that of Freud.
A)True
B)False
10
A person's first serious identity crisis is likely to occur during adolescence.
A)True
B)False
11
To Erikson, adolescence is a time of psychosocial latency.
A)True
B)False
12
According to Erikson, puberty is less important to adolescents than is their search for identity.
A)True
B)False
13
An identity crisis may either increase or decrease ego strength.
A)True
B)False
14
According to Erikson, love involves both intimacy and isolation.
A)True
B)False
15
A drive common in all societies is the need to instruct others in the ways of culture.
A)True
B)False
16
Erikson believed that authors of psychohistory must remain objective about their subjects.
A)True
B)False
17
Despite his belief in core pathologies at each stage of development, Erikson's viewpoint was basically optimistic.
A)True
B)False
18
Erikson's theory is more biological than social.
A)True
B)False
19
Research suggests that at midlife men are more likely than women to perform housework.
A)True
B)False







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