You observe a middle school class during a lecture on physical fitness. You notice that one boy spends much of his time biting on his lip or on his pencil. You observe a cigarette in his shirt pocket
According to the psychoanalytic model, this child is MOST likely to be characterized as: a. appropriately expressing teenage impulses
b. demonstrating anal fixation and concentration
c. misdirecting and expressing sexual energy
d. preoccupied with or fixated on the oral phase
D
According to the Freudian model, those who are fixated at the oral stage are often preoccupied with food or suck or bite on objects such as pencils. The fixation occurs when an individual maintains a preoccupation with the pleasures associated with a stage, even though the individual has advanced beyond that stage.
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