According to Freud, if parents are either too strict or too lenient in the way they toilet train their child, the child will become either stingy and stubborn or messy and wasteful. Critics say this is not a good scientific theory because it is NOT

A) heuristic.
B) falsifiable.
C) correlational.
D) psychoanalytic.

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jasmine williams · Accepted Answer

Final Answer : B, Explanation :  Freud's theory of toilet training is not falsifiable, meaning it cannot be proven false through empirical evidence. It is also not a correlational theory, as it does not propose a relationship between two variables. While it is a psychoanalytic theory, this is not the best answer choice as the question is specifically asking why it is not a good scientific theory, and being psychoanalytic does not necessarily make a theory good or bad in terms of scientific validity. It could potentially be considered heuristic, as it suggests a potential explanation for certain types of behavior, but this alone does not make it a good scientific theory.

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