PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Toilet Training, Harry Harlow, Reinforcement

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Dwayne Pare

Document Summary

Desire for social relaions is present at birth ex. Humans have goten as far as we have because we are intensely social animals, we want relaionships, we need to feel like we are loved, we gain power through connecions. This desire for social relaions is present at birth, and is bi-direcional, as represented both by. Maternal insincts and via speciic behaviours emited by the infant. Cuddling: comfort seems to signal security (harlow"s work) Looking: eye to eye contact to iniiate interacions from birth to current day. Smiling: the best reward of parening (happens around 5 weeks) Crying for food, atenion, change diaper for comfort o. Atachment: the lifelong emoional bond that exists between the infants and their mothers or other caregivers, formed during the irst 6 months of life. The type of atachment in how a person ends up being later in life and their own atachments styles are determined early on.