PSY302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Evolutionary Psychology, Parental Leave, Information Processing
12 May 2016
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View of children"s nature: development mostly driven by biological maturation, freud: we are motivated by unconscious drives for sex and aggression, erikson: motivated to successfully resolve social developmental crises. Freud"s theory of psychosexual development: earliest theory: developed late 1800s-early 1900s, freud = neurologist, he found out that there was nothing physically wrong with them but have hysteria (conversion disorder) Looks like something is physically wrong with you but its psychosocial. E. g. arm was paralyzed but it doesn"t look wrong. E. g. girl woke up paralyzed (because she was stressed) when she wasn"t stressed anymore, she wasn"t paralyzed anymore: people go through psychosexual stages, psychic energy gets focused on erogenous zones (oral, anal, genital, developmental process. Born with id: sex, aggression, instincts to eat, drink, sleep, etc. Pleasure principle: wants what it wants right now, does not care about consequences and dangers. You want to nurse all the time (breastfeed) Fear this loss of love when they are separated from mother.
