PSY 110 Final: notes for first exam.docx

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 110
• Professor: Luly Casares

Document Summary

Oral stage: birth 2 years old, freud thought these were erotic satisfactions, guardian becomes primary object of the child"s libido (because this is the person who responds to the infants demands, sub-stages, oral incorporative, anything you take in. Involves pleasurable stimulation of mouth by other people, food, etc. If part of your libido is fixated here these adults are fixated with oral activities (smoking, eating, drinking, kissing, etc. ) Anal stage (2-4 years old: believed that toilet training had a significant effect on personality, defecation produces erotic pleasure for children, with toilet training, you have to learn to postpone pleasure. Freud argued that holding back also produces an erotic pleasure another way of manipulating their parents and get attention stingy, stubborn, orderly, rigid, compulsive, neat, overly conscientious (ex. Latency period (next 5 years: not a psychosexual stage, sexual impulse is dormant, hobbies, activities, sports, school work, peer relationships with members of same sex, very important stage.