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Evaluating the Psychoanalytic Perspective
1.Personality develops throughout life and is not fixed in childhood.
2.Freud underemphasize peer influence on the individual which may be as powerful as parental influence.
3.Gender identity may develop before 5-6 years of age.
Modern Research
OBJECTIVE 44-9| Summarize psychology’s current assessment of Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis.