PSYCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Attachment Theory, Human Sexuality
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Psych 100 lecture 25 motives to love. Passionate love lasts about two years (early stages) Biological similarities between romantic love and mother-infant bond. Same neurotransmitters and hormones are activated in the mother-baby bond and in the adult love bond. Same areas of the brain are activated when mother looks at pictures of baby and when adult lovers look at pictures of each other. Your attachment to your primary caregivers will govern your attachment in adult love relationships. Harville hendricks: getting the love you want . Alfred kinsey (1950"s): pioneering work on human sexuality (survey research: people were engaging in behaviors that most thought were taboo , women are sexual too, helped men and women to better understand each other. Masters and johnson (1960"s): sexual laboratories: mapped out the physiology of sex and orgasm, asserted that female and male sexuality is equal, may have a problem with their sample of research subjects (volunteer bias) Sexual response cycle: excitement, plateau, orgasm, resolution.
