PSY 2301 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Day Care, Frontal Lobe, Cortisol
16 Apr 2018
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Chapter 6: social and personality development in infancy. Fixation is consequence of an unbalance weaning process. Symbiotic relationship between mom and infant; behave as one. With good nursing period and balanced weaning process, infant develops sense of attachment to and separation from mom. Erikson said nursing and weaning is only one aspectresponding to infants other needs by comfort is just as important. First 2 years are spent learning to trust the world. Wire mother with nursing bottle v. mother covered with soft clothbabies liked cloth mom better. Social relationships not just based on nursing and weaning. All humans have innate predispositions that influence development. Evolution has given genes to infants that predispose them to form emotional bonds with mother- attachment theory. Infants capacity to form social relationships is very resistant to the environment such as how good the parents are. First 2 years of life is sensitive period for forming relationshipsinfluence later development.
