A. trust versus mistrust
B. initiative versus guilt
C. autonomy versus shame and doubt
D. relatedness versus isolation
Related Mcqs:
- During the second year of life, toddlers begin to take some personal responsibility for feeding, dressing, and bathing themselves in an attempt to establish what Erikson calls a sense of:
A. superiority
B. industry
C. generativity
D. autonomy - Ameen, a 70-years old retired teacher, feels that his life has not been of any real value or significance. According to Erikson, Ameen has failed to achieve a sense of:
A. autonomy
B. independence
C. basic trust
D. integrity - 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 - 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 - Erik Erikson maintained that the two basic aspects of life that dominate adulthood are ________________?
A. identity and independence
B. intimacy and identity
C. intimacy and generativity
D. independence and generativity - 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 - According to Erikson, trust is to______as identity is to______.
A. infancy; childhood
B. infancy; adolescence
C. adulthood; childhood
D. childhood; adolescence - 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 - According to Erikson, the central crisis of adolescence is _____________?
A. identity vs confusion
B. trust vs mistrust
C. industry vs inferiority
D. intimacy vs isolation - If an individual is facing the psychological crisis of identity versus role confusion, according to Erik Erikson’s model, that individual is most likely ____________?
A. a preadolescent
B. an adolescent
C. a young adult
D. a middle-aged adult
