Erik Erikson and Post-Freudian Theory Quiz
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Where did Erikson move to after his time at Yale?

  • University of California at Berkeley (correct)
  • Princeton University
  • Harvard University
  • Stanford University

    • Which Native American tribe did Erikson study while living on the Pine Ridge reservation?

  • Sioux (correct)
  • Cherokee
  • Navajo
  • Apache

    • What was the theme that Erikson recognized as underlying topics in his book Childhood and Society?

  • The impact of technology on society
  • Economic development in underdeveloped countries
  • The effects of climate change on human behavior
  • Influence of psychological, cultural, and historical factors on identity (correct)

    • In what year did Erikson publish the book Childhood and Society?

    <p>1950</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What demand did University of California officials make of faculty members in 1949?

    <p>Sign an oath pledging loyalty to the United States</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was Erik Erikson's primary language for most of his life?

    <p>English</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which country's flag did Erikson take pride in displaying, despite never living there?

    <p>Denmark</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was Erikson's intention with his theory of personality?

    <p>To extend Freud's assumptions and offer a new perspective</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did Erikson's post-Freudian theory extend into?

    <p>Adolescence, adulthood, and old age</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did Erikson suggest contributes to the formation of personality from adolescence onward?

    <p>A specific psychosocial struggle</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How did Erikson regard his post-Freudian theory?

    <p>As an extension of psychoanalysis that Freud might have done</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the core pathology associated with the 'Old age' stage of Erikson's life cycle?

    <p>Disdain</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which stage of Erikson's life cycle is characterized by the psychosocial crisis of 'Intimacy vs. isolation'?

    <p>Young adulthood</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the basic strength associated with the 'Adolescence' stage of Erikson's life cycle?

    <p>Fidelity</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which stage of Erikson's life cycle is characterized by the psychosocial crisis of 'Industry vs. inferiority'?

    <p>School age</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the core pathology associated with the 'Play age' stage of Erikson's life cycle?

    <p>Inhibition</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the basic strength associated with the 'Early childhood' stage of Erikson's life cycle?

    <p>Will</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What can contribute to children's feelings of inferiority according to the text?

    <p>Inadequacies during previous stages of development</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does Erikson suggest about people's ability to handle crises in each stage of development?

    <p>People can successfully handle the crisis of any given stage even if they were not completely successful in previous stages</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the text say about the ratio between industry and inferiority during the school age?

    <p>The ratio should favor industry over inferiority</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the basic strength that children develop during the school age according to the text?

    <p>Competence</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What can happen if the struggle between industry and inferiority does not favor industry according to the text?

    <p>Children are likely to give up and regress to an earlier stage of development</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the text say about the role of inferiority during the school age?

    <p>Inferiority can serve as an impetus to do one's best</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What constitutes the core pathology of the play age?

    <p>Inhibition</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the basic strength developed during the play age?

    <p>Purpose</p> Signup and view all the answers

    During the play age, who might be the object of children's developing sexual desires?

    <p>Mother or father</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is considered the 'cornerstone of morality' in Erikson's concept during the play age?

    <p>Youthful conscience</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the concept of school age in Erikson's theory cover?

    <p>Development from about age 6 to approximately 12 or 13</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do school-age children strive industriously to do according to Erikson?

    <p>Read and write, hunt and fish, or learn cultural skills</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Study Notes

    Erikson's Life and Career

    • Erikson took a position at Yale in 1936, but after 2.5 years, he moved to the University of California at Berkeley.
    • He lived among and studied people of the Sioux nation on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota.
    • He also lived with people of the Yurok nation in northern California, adding to his concept of humanity.

    Childhood and Society

    • In 1950, Erikson published Childhood and Society, which became a classic and gave him an international reputation as an imaginative thinker.
    • The book appears to be a hodgepodge of unrelated chapters, but the underlying element is the influence of psychological, cultural, and historical factors on identity.

    Theory of Personality

    • Erikson's theory of personality is separate from but not incompatible with Freud's.
    • His post-Freudian theory extended Freud's infantile developmental stages into adolescence, adulthood, and old age.

    Psychosocial Crisis and Stages of Development

    • Each stage is characterized by a psychosocial crisis, which stimulates a conflict between a syntonic element and its antithetical dystonic element.
    • The conflict emerges a basic strength, or ego quality, which has an underlying antipathy that becomes the core pathology of that stage.
    • The eight stages of development are: trust vs. mistrust, autonomy vs. shame and doubt, initiative vs. guilt, industry vs. inferiority, identity vs. role confusion, intimacy vs. isolation, generativity vs. stagnation, and integrity vs. despair.

    Play Age

    • The conflict of initiative vs. guilt produces the basic strength of purpose.
    • Children play with a purpose, competing at games in order to win or to be on top.
    • They set goals and pursue them with purpose, developing a conscience and attaching labels of right and wrong to their behavior.

    School Age

    • School age covers development from about age 6 to approximately age 12 or 13.
    • Children's wish to know becomes strong and is tied to their basic striving for competence.
    • Normal development: children strive industriously to read and write, to hunt and fish, or to learn the skills required by their culture.

    Overview of Post-Freudian Theory

    • Erikson's theory extended Freud's assumptions and offered a new "way of looking at things".
    • The theory is an extension of psychoanalysis, something Freud might have done in time.

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