Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Midlife Crisis, Cellular Respiration, Blue-Collar Worker

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Terry Biggs

Document Summary

Secure o go to partner for comfort, open, honest, and equal. Anxious o desperate for fantasy bond, looking for partner to complete or rescue them, try to form a bond. Avoidant: can emotionally detach, may seek isolation, don"t care about distress (if their partner is in distress), not there for their partner. Get your attachment style at age 1 and a half. Similar results in strange situation, but not as strong; attachment to mom is displayed stronger; may differ if single parent household or gay household. Why? o mom: security and comfort: dad: preferred playmate. The assumption was that by 12 or 13 you are adult like. You"ve learned that every kind of pleasure in life comes from your mouth. If you don"t move on and resolve it and realize, there"s other things you have to take care of then you are fixated: oral (1st year) You"ve got to realize that you have to control things.