Ch. 6: Erik Erikson: Identity Theory

According to Erikson, personality develops:

Over the lifespan

Erikson divided the growth of the personality into:

Eight psychosocial stages of development

Erikson used the term ______ to refer to the idea that human development is governed by a sequence of stages that depend on hereditary factors.

Epigenetic principle of maturation

According to Erikson, if a conflict at one developmental stage cannot be resolved, then a person is more likely to:

Find it difficult to adapt to later problems

In Erikson's view, at each stage of psychosocial development, ______.

The ego must incorporate both maladaptive and adaptive ways of coping

The locomotor-genital stage of Erikson's stages of psychosocial development, which occurs at age 3 and 5, involves ______ as the two ways of coping.

Initiative vs. guilt

Erikson identified the stage that deals with the identity cohesion versus role confusion as:

A time when a person has a strong sense of their own identity

According to Erikson, the basic strength that should develop during adolescence is:

Fidelity

To Erikson, the end of young adulthood may occur at the age of:

35

According to Erikson, people who are unable to develop positive relationships during young adulthood may prefer to be alone because they fear ______ as a threat to their ego identity.

Intimacy

The psychosocial developmental stage of maturity that lasts the longest is the:

Adulthood stage

According to Erikson, a person in the adulthood stage experiences ______ versus ______ and needs to be involved in teaching and guiding the next generation.

Generativity; stagnation

Erikson believed that the basic strength associated with adulthood is:

Care

According to Erikson, when middle-aged people cannot or will not find an outlet for generativity, they:

May become overhelmed by stagnation and regress to a stage of pseudo-intimacy

Ego integrity involves:

Accepting one's place and one's past

The basic strength associated with the final stage of psychosocial development is:

Wisdom

Erikson suggests that the failure of a person to adapt at one developmental stage:

Can be corrected successfully at a later stage

One the free will-determinism dimension, Erikson's theory of human nature:

Erikson's primary research method was the:

Case study

Women college students who are career-oriented are likely to:

Marry later in life

Generativity in middle age correlates positively with:

Power

In response to charges that his concepts are ambiguous and poorly defined, Erikson cited:

His artistic temperament and lack of formal training in science

Erikson's theory has been criticized because it is:

Incomplete in its description of the last stage of maturity

One of the most important contributions of Erikson's personality theory is to the field of:

Life-span developmental psychology

According to Erikson, basic strengths are interdependent and one strength cannot develop until the strength associated with the previous psychological stage of personality development has been confirmed. True or false?

True