Author Question: Kristi's mother finds four-year-old Kristi in the kitchen, mixing up a muffin mix and making a ... (Read 52 times)

2125004343 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Kristi's mother finds four-year-old Kristi in the kitchen, mixing up a muffin mix and making a marvelous mess Kristi announces, Surprise I'm making dinner Kristi's mother squelches her desire to yell at Kristi and with great control says, Oh, how nice Can I help? She responds in this way because she has been studying Erik Erikson's theory in her psychology class and she knows that Kristi's behavior is typical of a child in the stage of

a. autonomy versus shame and doubt.
b. intimacy versus isolation.
c. initiative versus guilt.
d. trust versus mistrust.

Question 2

Research suggests that for an adult, the loss of a parent is

a. more difficult to deal with for women than for men.
b. upsetting, but in some ways expected and therefore tends to be easier to deal with than the death of a child or of a spouse.
c. typically the most difficult type of loss with which to cope.
d. characterized by anger but not guilt.