If the frustration, conflict, and anxiety associated with a particular psychosexual stage are not properly resolved, Freud believed children may:
A) jump forward to the genital stage.
B) remain fixated, or stuck, at that stage.
C) regress back to the anal stage.
D) fail to develop a superego.
Answer: B
Rationale: Freud believed that difficulty at any of the stages of psychosexual development could lead to fixation, in which an individual becomes preoccupied with obtaining the pleasure associated with a particular stage.
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