Match List I (Stages of Personality Development) with List II (Characteristics):

List I

i.Oral Stage

ii.Genital Stage

iii.Phallic Stage

iv.Latency Stage

List II

a.Over indulgence causes fixation

b.Primacy of achievement related activities

c.Biting and babbling

d.Fear of castration

Ai-b, ii-d, iii-c, iv-a

Bi-c, ii-a, iii-d, iv-b ✓ Correct

Ci-a, ii-d, iii-b, iv-c

Di-c, ii-b, iii-d, iv-a

Correct answer: (B) i-c, ii-a, iii-d, iv-b

Explanation

In Freud's psychosexual stages, the oral stage is marked by biting and babbling as the infant explores through the mouth (i-c).

The genital stage, where over-indulgence and unresolved earlier conflicts show as fixation, is paired here with fixation (ii-a).

The phallic stage centres on the Oedipus conflict and the fear of castration (iii-d).

The latency stage sees sexual urges dormant while achievement-related activities take primacy (iv-b).

Freud's five stages run oral, anal, phallic, latency and genital.

The accepted pairing is therefore i-c, ii-a, iii-d, iv-b.

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