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Erikson quiz

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 5mins

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Class
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1.

According to Erikson's Psychosocial Stages of Development, the stage in which a child needs to learn important academic skills and compare favorably with peers in school to achieve competence is the ____ stage.

a)

Trust vs Mistrust

b)

Identity vs Role Confusion

c)

Initiative vs Guilt

d)

Industry vs Inferiority

2.

Mary and Fred have one child and want to adopt a second. Mary was excited at the possibility of adopting an older child, perhaps a 3 year-old, and skipping the infancy period entirely. In the 3 year-old's case, what stage would the child received inadequate care?

a)

Intimacy vs Isolation

b)

Trust vs Mistrust

c)

Role vs Role Identity

d)

Autonomy vs Shame/Doubt

3.

A 38-year-old woman quits her high-paying marketing job to focus on her children and become a school counselor. What stage would Erikson consider this to be:

a)

Identity vs Role Confusion

b)

Integrity vs Despair

c)

Generativity vs Stagnation

d)

Industry vs Inferiority

4.

Which is an example of the initiative vs. guilt stage?

a)

An infant chewing on a teething ring

b)

A middle-schooler completing a challenging math assignment

c)

A preschooler insisting on picking out her own clothes, no matter how mismatched they are

d)

A teenager trying out new fashions and hairstyles

5.

The stage that occurs between birth and one year of age is concerned with:

a)

Trust vs. Mistrust

b)

Initiative vs. Guilt

c)

Autonomy vs. Shame/Doubt

d)

Identity vs. Role Confusion

6.

How many stages of psychosocial development did Erikson describe?

a)

4

b)

8

c)

10

d)

12

7.

The crisis that arises in young adulthood is concerned with:

a)

Trust vs Mistrust

b)

Industry vs. Inferiority

c)

Integrity vs. Despair

d)

Intimacy vs. Isolation

8.

Which of the individual's below is in the identity versus confusion stage?

a)
b)
c)
d)
9.

If a child struggles to do well in school, what problem might emerge?

a)

Struggle with feelings of inferiority

b)

Develop a poor self-identity

c)

Experience a sense of guilt

d)

Begin to mistrust the people around him

10.

Successfully completing the eighth stage of psychosocial development leads to the emergence of what quality?

a)

Hope

b)

Fidelity

c)

Purpose

d)

Wisdom

11.

What stage am I?

the child begins school and must tame imagination and impulses, and please others. If adults support the child's efforts, a sense of competence develops

a)

Trust vs. Mistrust

b)

Initiative vs. Guilt

c)

Industry vs Inferiority

d)

Autonomy vs. Shame/Doubt

12.

Identify, which half of the psychosocial crisis has resulted.


Danny is sad because he feels his job is meaningless. He set out into his career hoping to become a well-known writer, but 20 years after college he is still working for the government rewriting training manuals that nobody reads. Right now Danny is experiencing what Erikson calls...

a)

Stagnation

b)

Isolation

c)

Role Confusion

d)

Inferiority

13.

Identify, which half of the psychosocial crisis has resulted.


Rocco tries to engage his friends in a game of pretend but is prevented from doing this by his preschool teacher. He feels bad because he wants to be a good boy and realizes that he should not have done this while the teacher was talking. If this happens often, according to Erikson he may feel...

a)

Mistrust

b)

Guilt

c)

Shame/Doubt

d)

Inferiority

14.

What term was made widely known by Erik Erikson?

a)

Trust issues

b)

Encouragement

c)

Identity crisis

d)

Initiative

15.

Who is NOT a child developmental theorist?

a)

Sigmund Freud

b)

Erik Erikson

c)

John B Watson

d)

Vincent Van Gogh