Psychology 2410A/B Chapter 6: chapter 6: connecting with the social world

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2410A/B
• Professor: Lynne Zarbatany

Document Summary

10:46 am attachment: the strong and enduring emotional bond between a child and a significant other and the processes that create and maintain this long-lasting social relationship. Psychoanalytic approaches to infant-parent bonds ethological perspective is dominant view in the field psychosexual development: a proposed series of stages of development related to drives, instinct, and sources of pleasure, with a particular focus on sexual desire. Bowlby described bond between children and caregivers as an attachment emphasized behaviour that create and maintain attachment attachment: the infant"s ability to seek proximity to a specific caregiver. 40mya mother began to embrace offspring, and mutual enbracing emerged. 5mya, great apes hold each other stomach to stomach to enable mutual gaze. Bases of social interactions gentle touching reduces stress in infants skin to skin has alagesic effect on baby most primates (other than great apes) need more immediate physical contact to build and maintain attachments.