A four-year-old girl sucks her thumb, a teenager binges on food, and an adult woman bites her fingernails. According to the Freudian theory of psychosexual development, all three are fixated at the ________ stage.
A. oral
B. anal
C. phallic
D. genital
Answer: A
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Most contemporary psychodynamic theorists would agree with which of the following statements?
A) Schizophrenogenic mothers confuse their children, resulting in their children becoming schizophrenic. B) Schizophrenogenic mothers, if they do exist, don't create schizophrenic children. C) Schizophrenogenia should be applied to fathers as well as to mothers. D) Schizophrenogenia has been supported by research as an important contributor to schizophrenia.
According to the idea of "socially shared cognition,"
A) individuals share information unconsciously through body language. B) thinking extends beyond the individual and includes that of pairs and groups. C) thinking must revert to the question of "whose idea is it?" D) individuals are unable to think independently.