A boy 8 years of age is looking at his father's razor and shaving cream in the bathroom medicine cabinet. He watches his father shave daily and asks his father when he will need to start shaving. This child is demonstrating characteristics common during which of Freud's psychoanalytic developmental stages?

Latency stage

Explanation:

Latency stage is the level of developmental stages where a child tends to have pyschosexual energy at this genital stage.Child tends to observe activities performed by peer of the same gender.They show sexual interest in tasks of latency phase  .

According to the question,8-year old boy is at latency stage where he is observing his father performing acts like shaving using razor and keen to know when he would be able to do so .

Latency  

Explanation:

Latency stage: In psychology, the term "latency stage" is one of the different stages in the psychoanalyst theory which was proposed by one of the most influential psychologists named Sigmund Freud. This stage is also referred to as the latency phase or latency period.

According to him, the latency stage starts at the age of six years and lasts through the age an individual reaches his or her puberty. It is referred to as the psychosexual development stage in which individual experiences overt sexual interest and therefore a child's attention is being aimed at peer activities and skills including different members of the same sex.

In the question above, the given statement represents that the child is demonstrating the characteristics of the latency stage of psychoanalytic development.

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