A toddler learning to use the toilet who sometimes feels bad when he or she "messes up" is at Erikson's stage called

a. identity versus role confusion.
b. initiative versus guilt.
c. autonomy versus shame and doubt.
d. intimacy versus isolation.

Answer: c. autonomy versus shame and doubt.

Psychology

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Which of the following is NOT true of drug therapies?

a. Drug therapies are often superficial and only provide temporary relief of symptoms. b. Side effects can be worse than the illness the drug is supposed to cure. c. The pharmaceutical industry is not sufficiently influential in research as it relates to drug testing. d. Many patients are overmedicated.

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