At age 22, Skinner experienced:
a. feelings of success and self-esteem.
c. jealousy of an older brother.
b. an identity crisis.
d. a late-blooming Oedipus complex.
ANS: B
FEEDBACK: Skinner built a study in the attic of his parents' home in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and sat down to write. The results were disastrous. Skinner was 22 years old and a failure at the only thing he wanted to do. He later referred to that time as his dark year, what Erikson would call an identity crisis. Skinner's occupational identity as a writer, which he had so carefully constructed during his college years, had collapsed and took with it his sense of self-worth.
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