Thirty-year-old alayna is painfully shy and so sensitive to rejection that she rarely talks to people other than her coworkers and her family members. occasionally, a man asks her out, but she tend to refuse. she spends a good deal of time reading and writing in her diary about her loneliness and other feelings. according to erikson's theory, alayna is facing the psychosocial conflict of and is likely to develop

Ascientist successfully predicts the outcome of an experiment. you watch carefully and know he didn't cheat. the scientist's success shows that: a) the scientist knows absolute truth about this experiment; success is not possible unless you know the truthb) the scientist was just lucky; no one ever knows what's going on, so successful predictions require luckc) the scientist may know the truth, or at least know something that is close to the truth, or the scientist may have gotten lucky this time; you can't be absolutely sured) the scientist really was cheating, even though you didn't see the cheating; no one can get things right, except by cheatinge) the scientist spent the night at a particular hotel chain and go a free breakfast, giving the scientist the ability to do amazing things