PSYC 2240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Mary Ainsworth, John Bowlby, Dazed

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2240
• Professor: Daniel Beliciu

Document Summary

Intimacy is not necessarily sexual: true intimacy is characterized by openness, honesty, self-disclosure, trust. Intimacy becomes an adolescent concern because of normative biological, cognitive, and social changes. Three important perspectives on development of intimacy during adolescence: harry. Stack sullivan"s interpersonal perspective, erik erikson"s psychosocial perspective, and attachment perspective. Sullivan"s theory of interpersonal development (personality theory): emphasized social aspects of growth, psychological development can be best understood in interpersonal terms, theory focuses on transformations in relationships with others, psychological disorders (psychological disorders have manifestations in childhood). Personality develops from infancy to late adolescence (0-17/18 years) mother and child. Described three major styles of attachment (secure attachment, resistant-insecure attachment, and avoidant-insecure attachment). Disorganized insecure attachment later discovered by main and solomon. Attachment: a strong and enduring emotional bond, usually formed first in infancy. Attachment behaviors: those behaviors that allow a child or an adult to achieve and retain physical proximity to someone else to whom he is attached.