PSY10000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Psy, Harry Harlow, John Bowlby
29 Nov 2017
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Social development: erikson, the psychosocial stages" crisis provides different outcomes of how a person thinks about themselves, the psychosocial stages build upon one another, stages, basic trust vs mistrust. Integral: whole: our social development is a function of the network of experiences in we are born, parents are the social agents. Attachment is an expression of basic need satisfaction. Level of satisfaction determines strength of attachment. Infants have a predisposition for need disposition (they look for face-like organisms as caregivers: contact comfort: comfort is not a need satisfaction. Attachment is more basic than need satisfaction: bowlby: It is an inherited tendency that infants have in order to seek out a relationship with the caregiver. Attachment fulfills two purposes: seeking positive: we seek contact with others as comfort, especially when afraid, avoiding negative: reduces negative feelings, patterns of attachment: 0 to 6 months old: infants don"t care about who holds them.
