Steve is extremely uptight and controlling. According to Freudian theory, he became fixated at the ________ stage of psychosexual development
a) oral
b) anal
c) latency
d) genital
ANS: B, Freud believed that people who are uptight and compulsively neat are fixated in the anal stage.
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