PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Erik Erikson, Sexual Maturity, Menarche
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Lecture 2 textbook notes coninued : developmental psychology. Stranger anxiety: displayed by infants ater about 8 months o. Stranger anxiety displays an important principle: the brain, mind, and social-emoional behaviour develop together. Atachment: powerful survival impulse that keeps infants close to their caregivers. Infants form atachments because they are comfortable, familiar, and responsive. Criical period: the ime in which atachments form for many animals. Neglect or abuse can disrupt the atachment process. Infants" difering atachment styles relect their individual temperament and the responsiveness of their parents and child-care providers. Some children are securely atached and others are insecurely atached. Sensiive, responsive parents tend to have securely atached children. Basic trust: a sense that the world is predictable and reliable. Erik erikson atributed basic trust to early parening, rather than to environment or inborn temperament. Adult relaionships seem to relect the atachment styles of early childhood, lending support to.
