Five-Year-Old Steven Is Initiating Activities and Mastering New Tasks

question 58

Multiple Choice

Five-year-old Steven is initiating activities and mastering new tasks.Identify the appropriate stage of development Steven would be classified in,according to Erikson's psychosocial stages of development.

• A) trust versus mistrust
• B) autonomy versus shame, doubt
• C) initiative versus guilt
• D) industry versus inferiority

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Definitions:

Emotion Management

The process by which individuals control or manage their feelings and expressions based on the social expectations of various situations.

Feeling Rules

Social norms that dictate the appropriate types and intensities of emotions to be felt and expressed in given situations.

Emotion Labour

The process of managing and often suppressing one's emotions to fulfill the emotional requirements of a job or role in society.

Alienation

A condition in social relationships reflected by a low degree of integration or common values and a high degree of distance or isolation between individuals, or between an individual and a group.