1. Abrahim, a sophmore in college, is in Erikson's "identity versus role confusion" stage. According to Erikson's theory, which of the following behaviors might we expect Abrahim to exhibit?
a. He is seriously considering settling down and starting a family
b. He is thinking a lot about how to best care for future generations of kids
c. He finds himself looking back over his life with a sense of despair.
d. He might change his major every few months
2. which of the following is an example of Piagets concept of assimilation?
a. Fourteen month old Noreen's first word was "ball." Now she calls anything roung that rolls a "ball"
b. Two year old Susie was told that horses don't have stripes so she concluded that zebras were different from horses.
c. Fourteen month old Albert starts to say "bunny...bad..." about the white stuffed rabbit in his bed
d. An eight month old lies in her bed and says "ba-ba-we-we-boo"
3. Ken, now in his seventies, finds all of the following tasks more difficult than when he was younger,except
a. remembering events that occured when he was a child
b. quickly responding when a traffice light turns from red to green
c. learning how to operate a new machine
d. quickly learning new information