According to Freud, the stage in which children develop a marked attachment to the parent of the opposite sex and become jealous of the same-sex parent is the ________ stage.

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The statement refers to Freud's theory of psychosexual development, in which the phallic stage occurs between the ages of three and six years old. During this stage, children experience the Oedipus (boys) or Electra (girls) complex, which involves sexual desires and jealousy towards the opposite-sex parent and identification with the same-sex parent.

According to Freud, the Stage in Which Children Develop a Marked