PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ambivalence, Terrycloth, Emerging Adulthood And Early Adulthood
1 Feb 2017
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Evolutionarily advantageous to have a bond with the primary caregiver. Complete deprivation results in cognitive and emotional impairment. Insecure attachment (40%): some genetics, but mostly the parenting style. Ambivalent: mixed feelings, wary of new situations & people. Disorganized: inconsistent behaviour reaching for parent, but looking away. Effect of attachment on adulthood: secure attachment can result in stable, well-adjusted adults with a good sense of self worth. Insecure attachment can result in unstable, insecure adults with a penchant for unhealthy relationships, or an avoidance of relationships in general. Often turns into a vicious cycle of unhealthy relationships, self-deprecation, lowering of self-esteem. Identity: sense of self, role in society, mostly begins to be developed in adolescence. Hei(cid:374)z"s (cid:449)ife is d(cid:455)i(cid:374)g of a rare cancer. The only potential cure is in the hands of a chemist. The chemist spend to develop the drug, and is now demanding. from heinz for a small dose to cure his wife.
