Question

Four-year-old John is very competitive with his father in trying to gain more attention from his mother. Freud would have suggested that John is going through the ________ stage of development.a.phallicb.latencyc.anald.orale.displacement

Answer 1

Answer:

A. Phallic

Explanation:

Phallic stage of development is part of psychosexual stages proposed by Freud where children becomes conscious of sex and gender differences between a male and a female. This stage affects parent-child relationship with characters such as rivalry, or attraction towards one parent than the other.

The phallic stage, which is the third stage of psychosexual development occurs in children between age three to six years old