TOEFL 10B

How are you feeling today?

• Fantastic!

• Good

• Meh

• Not good

What do the students need to turn in on Friday?

• a complete research paper

• an essay about Freud and Erikson

• a first draft of the research paper

• an email

What is the lecture mainly about?

• A general outline of the five stages of man.

• The effect that Erik Erikson had on the field of psychoanalysis.

• How malignant and maladaptive tendencies develop in children.

• A description of a theory on human personality development.

Listen again to part of the talk. Then answer the question.

What does the professor mean when he says this?

• The students' knowledge of the subject matter should be current.

• The students will need to download the information from the web site soon.

• The students should quickly learn the material before the final exam.

• The information can be learned without much effort.

Which of the following is NOT something Erikson struggled with as a child?

• struggling with his identity

• fitting in at school

• not knowing his biological father

• not knowing his biological mother

According to the professor, what is one possible reason why Erik Erikson entered the field of psychoanalysis?

• Erik Erikson was intent on receiving a Bachelor’s Degree.

• Erik Erikson wanted to know more about his biological father.

• Erik Erikson struggled with his own identity as a child.

• Erik Erikson had trouble fitting in at school.

According to Erik Erikson’s theory, how can a child develop a "virtue"?

• By having the exact same amount of positive and negative extremes.

• By having mostly positive feelings with a degree of negative.

• By having internal struggles between two poles.

• By going through a series of stages in which there are crises.

According to the professor, why is it important for a child to have a certain amount of mistrust?

• If the child is too trusting, they can put themselves in danger.

• Without mistrust, the baby will not love his or her parents.

• A child needs mistrust in order to understand the virtue of hope.

• It's important for a child to be withdrawn from others.

According to the professor, what might happen to a child who does not learn to trust any adult, not even his/her parents?

• The child will behave badly.

• The child will be incapable of forming healthy, stable relationships

• The child's brain will develop differently than his/her peers.

• The child's parents will resent him/her.

Listen again to part of the talk. Then answer the question. What does the professor mean when he says this?

• He wants to ensure they have all the right answers on their first test.

• He wants to clarify confusion students may be having about the due date.

• He wants students to understand when the assignment should be handed in.

• He wants to make certain that students are doing the first draft correctly.