Katrina, age 5, and Sharon, age 4, love to play together. 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 parents do. Which of George Herbert Mead’s stages of development are Katrina and Sharon exemplifying?

The preparatory stage

Explanation:

The preparatoryvstage of Herbert Meads stages of development is one of the three stages of the self in a child in his theory. Here the child mimics the behaviour of his surrounding environment and prepares himself/herself for the more sophisticated and complex tasks ahead. In this stage there is no sophisticated understanding of what is being mimicked.

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).