CAS PS 251 Lecture 12: Personality Psychology PS 251, Lecture 12
9 Aug 2018
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Psychological development (1)physical focus, (2)psychological theme, (3)adult character-type stage that shows what went wrong in stage. One can pass through a stage or regress back into another stage and become fixated in that previous stage once again. Oral(0-18 or about 2 years: physical focus: mouth, lips, tongue (the only ways of pleasure, like food, thumb sucking, etc, psychological theme: dependency. Everything has to be provided to you by someone else, you are helpless, and no one expects you to do anything: two ways things can go wrong . Needs could not be fulfilled enough: one becomes very independent, because no one was ever there fore you, and you become too independent. Or someone was there all the time, instantaneously; become too dependent, do not know how to do anything for yourself, do not develop a script for how to do basic things, huge issue with functioning.
