According to Erikson, which of the following should older people seek?
a. Vital participation in life
c. Stimulation from their environment
b. New challenges
d. All of these are correct.
Question 2Ego integrity involves:
a. making unconscious desires conscious.
b. allowing the superego and the id to be more balanced.
c. experiencing a sense of frustration with one's past.
d. accepting one's place and one's past.
Question 3According to Erikson, when middle-aged people cannot or will not find an outlet for generativity, they:
a. lose their strengths of competence, purpose, and fidelity.
b. may become overwhelmed by stagnation and regress to a stage of pseudo-intimacy.
c. adopt the behaviors of older, and more mature, adults.
d. may join as many organizations as possible to satisfy their ego.
Question 4Erikson's depiction of emotional difficulties in middle age is similar to:
a. Freud's description of ego development.
b. Jung's description of the midlife crisis.
c. Adler's description of individual psychology.
d. Horney's description of middle-age anxiety.
Question 5Erikson believed that the basic strength associated with adulthood is:
a. wisdom.
c. purpose.
b. love.
d. care.
Question 6According to Erikson, a person in the adulthood stage experiences _____ versus _____ and needs to be involved in teaching and guiding the next generation.
a. generativity; stagnation
c. intimacy; isolation
b. ego integrity; despair
d. industriousness; inferiority
Question 7The psychosocial developmental stage of maturity that lasts the longest is the:
a. muscular-anal stage.
c. adulthood stage.
b. locomotor-genital stage.
d. latency stage.
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