Chapter 6 Flashcards
In which of the following did Erikson note the phenomenon of identity confusion?
His study of patients in Vienna.
His study of World War II veterans.
His study of schizophrenic adults.
All of these are correct.
His study of World War II veterans.
Erikson’s epigenetic principle of maturation:
concerns the time required for a child to grow or mature to become an adult.
states that personality is determined entirely by genetics.
asserts that development is determined by both biological and social factors.
confirms that only social and environmental factors determine our personality.
asserts that development is determined by both biological and social factors.
Research on Erikson’s psychosocial stages demonstrated:
little support for all individual stages and their associated psychological manifestations.
a relationship between happiness and adaptive development in the first six stages.
no relationship between the individual stages and their ascribed aspects of personality.
support for the occurrence of generativity or stagnation during adolescence.
a relationship between happiness and adaptive development in the first six stages.
The psychosocial developmental stage of maturity that lasts the longest is the:
muscular-anal stage.
locomotor-genital stage.
adulthood stage.
latency stage.
adulthood stage.
Erikson believed that the basic strength associated with adulthood is:
wisdom.
love.
purpose.
care.
care.
The locomotor-genital stage of Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development, which occurs between ages 3 and 5, involves _____ as the two ways of coping.
initiative versus guilt
identity versus role confusion
autonomy versus doubt and shame
trust versus mistrust
initiative versus guilt
Which of the following psychosocial types precedes foreclosure in the adolescent stage of development?
Identity achievement
Moratorium
Social acceptance
Identity diffusion
Identity diffusion
One of the most important contributions of Erikson’s personality theory is to the field of:
psychometry.
computational social science.
recombinant memetics.
life-span developmental psychology.
life-span developmental psychology.
To Erikson, the end of young adulthood may occur at the age of:
21.
35.
25.
30.
35.
Erikson’s use of psychohistorical analysis included such significant personalities and figures as:
Hitler and Hannibal.
Moses and Noah.
Castro and Stalin.
Gandhi and Martin Luther.
Gandhi and Martin Luther.
Erikson divided the growth of the personality into:
nine stages up to adolescence.
four psychosexual levels.
eight psychosocial stages of development.
six categories of biological changes.
eight psychosocial stages of development.
Each of the following is a psychological type, or status, in the adolescent stage of development except:
identity achievement.
identity competence.
foreclosure.
moratorium.
identity competence.
Erikson used the term _____ to refer to the idea that human development is governed by a sequence of stages that depend on hereditary factors.
functional autonomy of motives
epigenetic principle of maturation
expressive behavior
primary-process thought
epigenetic principle of maturation
Which of the following statuses of the adolescent stage of development does not represent a successful resolution of the identity problem?
Identity diffusion
Alienated achievement
Foreclosure
Moratorium
Alienated achievement
Erik Erikson lived out one of his most famous concepts through:
his rejection of an important father figure—Freud.
the failure to earn an academic degree.
several identity crises.
his refusal to sign an oath of loyalty to the field of medicine.
several identity crisis.
