According to Freud, during the school-age years, children who all been previously sexually active enter a latency period in which they repress their sexuality. Research has demonstrated that this conceptualization is

a. right on target.
b. off target, as children younger than school age have been shown to have no interest in sexual activity.
c. off target, as children's early sexual activity appears to continue during the school-age years.
d. off target as the main change in sexual behavior in school age is an increase is public sexual activity.


c

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