Your Grandmother Is Convinced That Formula Is the Best Way

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Multiple Choice

Your grandmother is convinced that formula is the best way to feed infants because that is the way that she was fed as an infant.Why did her mother's generation formula-feed rather than breast-feed?

• A)Companies that produced formula convinced the public that formula feeding was the healthiest way to feed infants.
• B)Your great-grandmother was correct-we should be formula-feeding.
• C)In the 1930s and 1940s, it was much more difficult to breast-feed.
• D)Evidence is now emerging indicating that breast-feeding can be dangerous to infants.

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Definitions:

Superego

In Freudian psychoanalysis, the part of a person's mind that acts as a self-critical conscience, reflecting social standards learned from parents and teachers.

Id

In psychoanalytic theory, the part of the mind in which innate instinctive impulses and primary processes are manifest.

Superego

In psychoanalytic theory, it represents the ethical component of the personality and provides the moral standards by which the ego operates.

Oedipus Complex

According to Freud, a boy’s sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father.