According to Erikson, personality develops:

a. mostly during early childhood.
c. during adolescence.
b. only until age five.
d. over the entire life span.


ANS: D
FEEDBACK: Erikson extended Freud's theory in three ways. He elaborated on Freud's stages of development, suggesting that personality continues to develop over the entire life span.

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