Question

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?

a. The preparatory stage
b. The play stage
c. The game stage
d. The "generalized other" stage

Answer 1

B. The play stage.

Step-by-step explanation:

The play stage is from age 2 to 6 and in this stage children begin role-playing and play long games pretending to be the people around them like their parents with rules they come up with like in this example where Katrina and Sharon play washing and ironing clothes like their mothers do.