PY 491 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dialectic, Shared Experience, Individuation

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PY 491
• Professor: Jeffery Parker

Document Summary

Peer experiences in development: development of inidividual differences, are peer experiences luxuries, necessities, and something more sinister, william golding and lord of the flies, developmental psychology"s tenuous record of treatment of peer. [preadolescence is] spectacularly marked, in my scheme of development, by the appearance of a specific new type of interest in a particular member of the same-sex who becomes a chum or close friend. This change represents the beginning of something very like full-blown, psychiatrically defined love. In other words, the other fellow takes a perfectly novel relationship with the person concerned: he becomes of practically equal importance in all fields of value. Nothing remotely like that has ever happened before. All of you that have children are sure that your children love you; when you say that, you are expressing a pleasant illusion. Intrinsic motivation: doing a task because it is interesting and spontaneously satisfying.