Author Question: As a toddler, Joey loved to dance with his mother and his sisters, twirling around the house to ... (Read 76 times)

kodithompson · **on:** Jul 31, 2018

As a toddler, Joey loved to dance with his mother and his sisters, twirling around the house to music. By age 5, Joey refused to dance anymore, saying that dancing was for girls.

His mother felt that he really wanted to dance but that he just wouldn't. How would a psychoanalytic (Freudian) theorist explain Joey's attitude toward dancing?
a. Joey was forced to stop dancing by the taunting of his male friends.
b. Joey is intrinsically motivated to engage in behaviors that he believes are consistent with his gender.
c. Joey now identifies with his father, and prefers to do only what he sees his father do.
d. Joey secretly hates his mother and wishes to punish her.

Question 2

Still, Whiston and Sexton (1998) found that group work is very effective in addressing school aged children with which of the following issues?

a. family adjustment problems
b. social skills
c. discipline
d. All of the above