Chapter 8 B T/F Flashcards
During the last year of her life, Erik Erikson’s mother revealed the name of her son’s biological father.
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Erikson began his professional career as an artist.
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According to Erikson, people experience little personal growth after adolescence.
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An identity crisis can emerge only after a person experiences a catastrophe.
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Erikson saw the ego as being capable of adapting to changes throughout the life cycle.
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Erikson believed that anatomy, rather than culture, has a strong influence on how the ego will develop.
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Healthy psychological development depends on a conflict between harmonious and disruptive elements, according to Erikson.
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Each of Erikson’s stages has a psychosexual mode, a psychosocial crisis, a basic strength, and a core pathology.
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Erikson’s concept of the Oedipus complex is nearly identical to that of Freud.
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A person’s first serious identity crisis is likely to occur during adolescence.
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To Erikson, adolescence is a time of psychosocial latency. ???
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According to Erikson, puberty is less important to adolescents than is their search for identity.
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An identity crisis may either increase or decrease ego strength.
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According to Erikson, love involves both intimacy and isolation.
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A drive common in all societies is the need to instruct others in the ways of culture.
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