A four-year-old girl sucks her thumb, a teenager binges on food, and an adult woman bites her fingernails. According to the Freudian theory of psychosexual development, all three are fixated at the ________ stage.

A. oral
B. anal
C. phallic
D. genital


Answer: A

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