If a Person Becomes Fixated in the Oral Stage of Development

question 6

Multiple Choice

If a person becomes fixated in the oral stage of development, later personality problems may include all of the following except:

• A) rejecting others' love.
• B) fear of intimate relationships.
• C) mistrust of others.
• D) high self-esteem.

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Definitions:

Proactive Interference

The phenomenon where old memories hold back an individual from retaining new memories.

Hindsight Bias

The tendency to believe, after an event has occurred, that one would have predicted or expected the outcome, even though it was not predictable.

Hindsight Bias

The inclination to see events that have already occurred as being more predictable than they were before they took place.

Interference

A cognitive process where previously learned information hinders the ability to learn new information or the retrieval of information due to the non-helpful interaction between different pieces of information.