FMLY 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Ethology, Oral Stage, Attachment Theory

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Family Social Sciences
• Course: FMLY 1010
• Professor: Christine A.Schippers

Document Summary

Chapter 6: social and personality development in infancy. Parents experience most amount of physical closeness with child while they are an infant than any other stage of development. This proximity leads to the development of strong emotional bonds between infants and caregivers. Oral stage (birth-age 2) infants derive satisfaction through the mouth o. I(cid:374)fa(cid:374)t"s (cid:374)eed to su(cid:272)k should (cid:374)ot (cid:271)e frustrated or o(cid:448)er-gratified: would result in fixation at this stage of development (lead to nail-biting & swearing) Symbolic relationship between mother and infant (proposed by freud: the 2 behave as if they are one, i(cid:374)fa(cid:374)t does(cid:374)"t u(cid:374)dersta(cid:374)d that he e(cid:454)ists as separate fro(cid:373) his (cid:373)other. Weaning process during this stage must involve both attachment & separation from mother. Erikson emphasized importance of talking to & comforting the infant. During first 2 years, infant learns to trust the world or becomes cynical about social e(cid:374)(cid:448)iro(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t"s a(cid:271)ilit(cid:455) to (cid:373)eet his (cid:374)eeds.