PSYC 1010 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Puberty, Reaction Formation, Erogenous Zone

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Continuation of the 5 stages of psychosexual development: oral, anal: about 18 months, erogenous zone = anus, happens around toilet training age, child gets pleasure from elimination and retention of feces, phallic: about 4 years, erogenous zone = genitals, oedipal complex: when a boy becomes sexually attracted to his mother (aka. Now girl identifies with mom: freud believed that these feelings will persist throughout the girls life and produce penis envy, freud believed that if a woman gave birth to a boy she would satisfy some of this penis envy that she experiences, latency stage: around 5 years of age, when the id is under control and there isn"t much activity going on, genital stage: puberty and onwards, erogenous zone: genitals, similar to phallic stage, however the love object is not the parent but is now a member of the same or opposite sex.