01:830:338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: John Bowlby, Anal Stage
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Added three stages that incorporated beyond adolescences. Viewed each stage as a chapter of a person"s life. Erickson = psychosocial development and freud = psychosexual development: know this for the exam! Believed that you can revise chapters as you live your life: go back and evaluate previous chapters with new understandings. Each stage is a crisis or choice one must face. Essential for infant to experience a regular patter of nurturing need to feel that someone cares for them: this can be experienced as a child is picked up, cuddled, talked or sung to. Harlow"s research questioned the reasons that a child is attached to the mother: was it because they"re associated with food? (feeds the baby, or is it viewed at as a drive. Concluded to be more that it was a drive. His attachment system belief became an important part of evolution theory infants who fussed drew in people which in turn increased their likelihood to survive.
