Erikson believes that basic strengths:

a. are goals to strive for but not reach.
b. are potentially achievable by everyone.
c. cannot be fully expressed because of id interference.
d. are biologically determined and inevitable.


ANS: B
FEEDBACK: A personality theorist who delineates basic human strengths presents an optimistic view of human nature. Erikson believed that although not everyone is successful in attaining hope, purpose, wisdom, and the other virtues, we all have the potential to do so. Nothing in our nature prevents it.

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