Actor James Dean starred in the 1954 Hollywood movie Rebel Without a Cause, which was about a misfit loner. Erikson would judge that Dean's character had this identity:
a. foreclosure.
b. negative identity.
c. identity achieved.
d. personal agency.
Question 2The primitive reflexes are similar because each of them
a. shows the downward evolutionary degradation of the human species.
b. triggers specific actions that are needed for survival.
c. withers away during the first months following birth.
d. strengthens with each month of postnatal maturity.
Question 3Achieving a sense of personal identity as a teenager is promoted by
a. being in Piaget's formal operational cognitive stage.
b. parents whose style is strict and authoritarian.
c. being stuck in the moratorium identity status.
d. frequently changing majors while in college.
Question 4Which of these is an enduring survival reflex?
a. Eye-blink reflex
b. Babinski reflex
c. Stepping reflex
d. Grasping reflex
Question 5Adults who drifted into roles as black sheep, delinquents, losers, or rebels without a cause are described by Erikson as having
a. negative identity.
b. become collectivists in an individualistic society.
c. social mindblindness.
d. a self-centered looking-glass self.
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