In his study of play constructions, Erikson believed he saw:

a. the symbolic expression of the genitals for both sexes.
b. proof of his first three developmental stages.
c. how sex roles were changing in modern culture.
d. gender neutrality in the selection of play objects.


ANS: A
FEEDBACK: Trained as an orthodox Freudian, Erikson interpreted play constructions along standard psychoanalytic lines. He wrote, "Sexual differences in the organization of a play space seem to parallel the morphology of genital differentiation itself: in the male, an external organ, erectable and intrusive in character … in the female, internal organs, with vestibular access, leading to a statically expectant ova."

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