According to Erikson, a person will have a more difficult time dealing with later crises if the person

a. became fixated at a psychosocial stage.
b. experienced overwhelming psychogenic anxiety.
c. failed to resolve a psychosocial dilemma at a particular life stage.
d. showed generativity regarding their resolution of other psychosocial stages.


ANSWER: c

Psychology

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a. errors in judgment on his part b. slick conditions on the asphalt c. his late-night partying on the previous evening d. problems he is having in his personal life

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Six-week-old Elia learned that whenever she smiled her mother would smile back and sometimes would pick her up. Elia started to smile more often so that she could get her mother's attention. This illustrates

a. operation conditioning. c. operant conditioning. b. classical conditioning. d. reflex conditioning.

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A. Ethnocentrism B. Social identity C. Crowdsourcing D. Groupthink

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A. ambivalently B. independently C. securely D. avoidantly

Psychology