Psychology 2075 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Adolescent Sex, Psychosexual Development, Ram Parity

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2075
• Professor: Taylor Kohut

Document Summary

Chapter 10: sexuality and the life cycle childhood and adolescence. Intro: sex is more than just heterosexual intercourse, scientists think of sexual development as a process that occurs throughout the lifespan. Life span development: the study of sexuality throughout the course of our lives. Data sources: most of the data comes from surveys, self-report therefore may be subject to biases, memory errors, alternative; interviews or observation, obviously not done often. Infancy and the preschool years: birth 4: freud was first to express that children have sexual urges and engage in sexual behaviours, the capacity of the body to show a sexual response is present from birth. Infants are often observed fondling themselves: 6-12 months discover genitals by touching, 15-19 months increased touching, this is normal. Child-child encounters: children become more social and heterosexual play occurs, at this age, some children have viewed their own parents having sex.