Psychology 2075 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Toddlers & Tiaras, Vaginal Lubrication, Adrenarche

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2075
• Professor: Corey Isaacs

Document Summary

Sexuality and the life cycle: childhood and adolescence. Lifespan development: development from birth through old age, the study of sexuality throughout the course of our lives. Sexual response: present from birth, male fetuses can get re ex erections several months before birth and vaginal lubrication has been found in female infants in the 24 hours after birth. Attachment: a psychological bond that forms between and infant and the mother, father, or other caregiver: an individual"s earliest experience with love and emotional attachment, can be stable/unstable, secure/insecure, satisfying/frustrating. Gender identity: by age 2. 5 or 3 children know what gender they are, understand the genital di erences by age 5 or 6. Latency: freud, the period of childhood following the resolution of the oedipus complex, suggested that sexual urges are not expressed > freud was wrong and children"s interest in expression of sexuality remain lively throughout this period.