Ahmed is a deaf infant who has just begun forming his first signs. his playmate, alice, can hear and she has just begun to use pointing gestures to communicate. ahmed and alice are the same age. how old would you predict ahmed and alice to be?

“an abused child's thoughts occasionally drift to other, less anxiety-arousing topics; this anxiety reduction thus serves to strengthen 'other' thoughts, while weakening the thoughts about abuse.” a psychologist with which theoretical background would be most likely to offer this quotation as an explanation for the development of dissociative disorders?