The correct answer is (b). George Herbert Mead's specific path of development for individuals is as follows: preparatory stage, play stage, game stage, generalized other stage. G. H. Mead studied self-development in infantile period of life, he was interested in how people's perceptions of themselves change through development. Mead’s defined four stages of development: preparatory stage (the stage of learning and using language and symbols), play stage (the stage of roll playing and roll taking), game stage (the stage of learning your role in relation to others) and the generalized others stage (the final stage development in which individual learns about values, moral and how to behave in society).