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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.