Who would tell a mother,"In order for your 4-year-old to develop a female identity,she must first develop a sexual attraction to her father,then she must reject this attraction and affiliate with you"?
A) a social learning theorist
B) a psychoanalytic theorist
C) a gender-schema theorist
D) a cognitive-developmental theorist

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This statement aligns with the psychoanalytic theory of Freud, who believed that girls develop a female identity by going through the Electra complex, which involves a young girl having sexual desire for her father and then rejecting it and identifying with her mother.

Who Would Tell a Mother,"In Order for Your 4-Year-Old to Develop