Thomas has achieved a capacity for closeness and commitment to others. Erikson would say he has successfully navigated the stage of:

Related Mcqs:

1. 30-year-old woman tells a friend that she doesn’t want to marry because she is afraid of losing her freedom and independence. Erikson would say that she is having difficulty with the psychosocial task of ______________?

   A. trust vs. mistrust
   B. autonomy vs. doubt
   C. intimacy vs. isolation
   D. identity vs. role confusion

2. When the host doesn’t recall something others say he/she done because another personality did it, what is that usually referred to by the MPD?

   A. spells
   B. black outs
   C. lost time
   D. all of these

3. The powerful survival impulse that leads human infants to seek closeness to their parents is called ___________________?

   A. attachment
   B. imprinting
   C. egocentrism
   D. conservation

4. Erikson’s trust vs mistrust stage occurs during _______________?

   A. middle childhood
   B. early childhood
   C. infancy
   D. early adulthood

5. The last stage in Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development where in a person reflects on their life is ______________?

   A. productivity vs stagnation
   B. integrity vs despair
   C. competence vs inferiority
   D. pride vs regret

6. According to Erikson’s developmental theory, the maturity stage deals with which of the following crises?

   A. initiative vs. guilt
   B. autonomy vs. doubt
   C. integrity vs. despair
   D. intimacy vs. isolation

7. According to Erikson, a child four to six years of age is in which stage of development?

   A. latency stage
   B. muscular-anal stage
   C. locomotor-genital stage
   D. oral-sensory stage

8. Choosing a marriage partner and deciding whether or not to have children may be related to Erikson’s psychosocial stage of ______________?

   A. trust vs. mistrust
   B. generativity vs. isolation
   C. intimacy vs. isolation
   D. integrity vs. despair

9. An elderly person who can look back on life with satisfaction and reminisce with a sense of completion has attained Erikson’s stage of ________________?

   A. generativity
   B. intimacy
   C. isolation
   D. integrity

10. According to Erikson, the first stage of development (birth to one year) is a period when the infant develops the basic characteristic of:

    A. intimacy versus isolation
    B. industry versus inferiority
    C. initiative versus guilt
    D. trust versus mistrust