PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Mary Catherine Bateson, Konrad Lorenz, Mental Model

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Ron Sheese

Document Summary

Inner working models of relationship: ainsworth"s strange situation and attachment, secure, anxious-avoidant, anxious-resistant, described in last lecture, secure attachment is ideal. It depends on the temperament or resilience of the child which are determined by biology: protoconversations - mary catherine bateson, how caretakers talk to their children is relevant, not just actions, there is collaborative construction through conversation. Freud"s perspective on interpersonal aggression: freud"s view was that this aggression was not rational. Freud suggests that this is biological in nature but the dimensions of similarity are more of a cultural factor: mutual threat and group cohesion. Indirect aggression - sabotage: rational reasoning, the nature/nurture debate regarding aggression, social learning, alfred bandura, children learn to be aggressive through modeling, displaced aggression as a personality trait. For some people it"s very natural whereas for other people not so much: thomas denson thinks that displaced aggression is more of a personality characteristic, evaluating freud.