A four-year-old child who insists on choosing and putting on her clothes without any assistance from her mother would be classified by Erikson as being in the ________ stage.
A) concrete operational
B) trust versus mistrust
C) initiative versus guilt
D) intimacy versus isolation
E) competence versus inferiority

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The child's behavior of wanting to choose and put on her clothes without assistance reflects a desire to take initiative and assert autonomy, which is a key feature of Erikson's stage of initiative versus guilt. This stage typically occurs in early childhood, around 3-6 years old. The other options (concrete operational, trust versus mistrust, intimacy versus isolation, and competence versus inferiority) are stages that occur later in development or are not directly relevant to the child's behavior described.

A Four-Year-Old Child Who Insists on Choosing and Putting on Her