Social Development (Chapter 13)

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Social Development (Chapter 13)

• Second Lecture Outline
• Psychosexual Development
• Attachment Theory and Parenting
• Moral Development

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Freuds Psychosexual Theory

• Oral stage (birth to two years)
• Pleasure from sucking and oral activity
• Anal stage (two to four years)
• Urination and defecation
• Phallic stage (4 to middle childhood)
• Oedipal (male) and Electra (female) conflict
  Desire opposite sex parent, fear wrath of same
  sex parent, identify with same sex parent
• Latency and Genital (adolescent) phases

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Freud and the two problem women in his life
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Attachment theory

• Emotional bonds between people have adaptive
  significance, develop through an interactional
  history, and influence personality development
• History Spitz and WWII orphans Harry Harlow
  and rhesus monkeys Lorenz and his ducks Genie
  and deprivation sabre-tooth tigers
• Bowlby Attachment, Separation, and Loss

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Maasi in africa Attachment theory is
cross-cultural
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Patterns in Infancy Ainsworths Strange
Situation

• Three patterns which differ on proximity-seeking
  and distress resolution
• Avoidant (A) No distress or proximity-seeking,
  no distinction between mother and stranger
• Secure (B) Distress resolved, proximity-seeking
• Resistant (C) Distress not resolved, ambivalent
  proximity-seeking

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Attachment in context

• Parental work status does not predict attachment
• Emotional adjustment of the parent (e.g., family
  stress and conflict) is important
• Quality of non-parental care is important
• Relationship quality becomes internalizes and
  influences later adult and romantic relationships
• AAI Dismissing, Autonomous, Preoccupied