Question

Every time two-year-old Tara is given a bath, she plays with her genital area. If her parents chastise or punish her, she is likely to experience frustration, which could lead to an unresolved developmental conflict called: Please choose the correct answer from the following choices, and then select the submit answer button.

Answer 1

Answer: Fixation

Explanation: Fixation can be Simply defined as a situation where an individual is unable to move on from an earlier psychosexual stage caused by issues which were left unresolved at that particular stage.

According to psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, psychosexuality are of five stages namely; Oral stage (birth to age one), Bowel/erogenous stage (one to age three), Phallic Stage (three to age six), Latent Period (age six to puberty), Genital Stage ( from age of puberty onwards).

Tara being two years old falls in the category of bowel/erogenous Stage, in the stage parents are required to use rewards and words of encouragements to get a positive outcome from their child's behaviors. But if parents choose to chastise or punish a child at the stages, the child might experience frustrations leading to unresolved developmental conflict called Fixation. The can have have an impact in the personality of the child later in life, they might become too stringent and obsessive.

Answer 2

Answer:

Fixation.

Explanation:

The ways personality are made depends on progress that people made during their Psychosexual development Stages. During this development one might be fixed to a certain stage if the issues in that stage has not been solved and this makes the personality they have developed from a young age to be present when they are much more older.

According to Sigmund Freud there are three main types of fixation and they are; oral stage, Bowel and Bladder Control and Phallic stage.

In this case, Tara frustration could lead to an unresolved developmental conflict known as Phallic stage fixation that deals with genitals.