Katrina, age 5, and sharon, age 4, love to play together while their mothers chat. katrina has a toy iron and washing machine. she and sharon spend hours "washing" and "ironing" her baby doll’s clothes, just like they see their mothers do. which of george herbert mead’s stages of development are katrina and sharon exemplifying?

By playing with each other using toys as their parents do with the real machines, then the children are at the preparatory stage, as per the George Herbert Meads's stages of development.

Explanation:

The preparatory stage is the period when children try to play roles as imitated from what is usually done with those close to them, as in our above example's case.

answer; proximity;

glass wants to live in a world of super heroes and villains. he have lived all his life trying to be responsible for the creating the origin story of a super hero; he schemed and caused many incidents (many of them fatal) hoping that someday someone with superpowers would show up and save the day.

he knew himself very much. he saw himself as a villain of a real-life super hero story. he was aware of his strengths (more than smart enough for being manipulative and scheming) and weaknesses (having fragile bones and having to rely on his mind to succeed).