Karen is a preschool teacher who encourages her students to be responsible for putting their lunch boxes on their own shelves and hanging their jackets on the correct peg. it is most likely that she is trying to her students deal successfully with the crisis relevant to the stage of psychosocial development.

The correct answer is the initiative vs. guilt stage of psychosocial development.

According to Erikson's theory of psychosocial development, at approximately ages 3-5, children experience the stage of development called initiative vs. guilt. During this stage of development, children learn to make autonomous decisions and do things independently without always relying on their parents or other adults. If children fail to do things autonomously or are ignored or reprimanded for being inquisitive, they experience feelings of guilt.