Toby has a new friend, Bart, who has immersed himself in learning about the latest developments in virtual reality. Bart and his friends have expensive equipment and spend all their time outside of school competing with one another and with friends they have made online. Toby is fascinated by this technology and asks his parents to buy him the equipment he needs to participate. Very soon, Toby is spending his free time with Bart and his new friends, and his parents rarely see him. He is dressing and talking like this group and has lost interest in his schoolwork and his relationship with his family. What is happening?
A. Toby is losing his sense of self in the world of his peers.
B. Toby is in a stage of emerging adulthood.
C. Toby is experiencing a psychosocial moratorium.
D. Toby is at the achievement stage of his identity search.
Answer: A
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