Which of the following psychosocial types precedes foreclosure in the adolescent stage of development?
a. Identity achievement
b. Moratorium
c. Social acceptance
d. Identity diffusion
Question 2Adolescents who have not experienced an identity crisis but are committed to an occupation are in the:
a. foreclosure status.
c. identity competence status.
b. moratorium status.
d. identity achievement status.
Question 3In the adolescence stage of psychosocial development, the status of _____ describes adolescents who are committed to occupational and ideological choices.
a. identity achievement
b. moratorium
c. foreclosure
d. identity diffusion
Question 4Each of the following is a psychological type, or status, in the adolescent stage of development
except:
a. identity achievement.
c. foreclosure.
b. identity competence.
d. moratorium.
Question 5Studies on the concept of ego identity that was proposed by Erikson showed that:
a. it is negatively related to maternal identification.
b. younger men experience lower levels of psychological distress than do older men.
c. women are more successful than men in achieving ego identity.
d. adolescents who developed trust and autonomy displayed a high level of identity cohesion.
Question 6Research on Erikson's psychosocial stages demonstrated:
a. little support for all individual stages and their associated psychological manifestations.
b. a relationship between happiness and adaptive development in the first six stages.
c. no relationship between the individual stages and their ascribed aspects of personality.
d. support for the occurrence of generativity or stagnation during adolescence.
Question 7In his study of play constructions, Erikson believed he saw:
a. the symbolic expression of the genitals for both sexes.
b. proof of his first three developmental stages.
c. how sex roles were changing in modern culture.
d. gender neutrality in the selection of play objects.