Research on Erikson's psychosocial stages demonstrated:
a. little support for all individual stages and their associated psychological manifestations.
b. a relationship between happiness and adaptive development in the first six stages.
c. no relationship between the individual stages and their ascribed aspects of personality.
d. support for the occurrence of generativity or stagnation during adolescence.
ANS: B
FEEDBACK: A study using the Inventory of Psychosocial Development, a test designed to assess adaptive and maladaptive development in Erikson's first six stages, found a significant relationship between happiness and adaptive development at each stage. Another study showed a high correlation between maladaptive development in the first six stages and a sense of alienation and uprootedness.
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