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Bernana

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People who fail to achieve a cohesive identity will experience a confusion of their roles and thus will have an identity crisis.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

Question 2

As indicated by Erikson, young adulthood includes generativity versus stagnation as the ways of coping with crisis and a person might resolve the crisis of his or her basic ego identity during this stage.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false.



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Answer to Question 1

ANS: T
FEEDBACK: Those who fail to achieve a cohesive identitywho experience what Erikson called an identity crisiswill exhibit a confusion of roles. They do not know who or what they are, where they belong, or where they want to go.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: F
FEEDBACK: Adolescence, between ages 12 and 18, is the stage at which we must meet and resolve the crisis of our basic ego identity. This stage of development is linked to identity cohesion versus role confusion as ways of coping with crisis.



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