PSY 171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Oral Stage, John Bowlby, Object Permanence
17 Jul 2018
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Impactful, and has influences throughout one"s life span one or two regular attachments to people who are consistently there throughout their lives - parents, mom, dad, siblings. Oral stage; mothers satisfy need for sucking. This is why infants are attached to the mother. Drew attention to attachment idea even though theory wasn"t really accurate. Primary goal for infants is to trust caregiver, feel like needs are being met, feel safe, and supported. His idea is not directly related to attachemnt, but is about the idea of trust that relates to attachment. Idea of learning theorists is that caregivers are associated with the relief of hunger. Took infant monkeys, separated them from real moms and placed them with surrogates. One was a wire surrogate with bottle, provided food. One surrogate was made of terry cloth, but no food. Monkeys choose nurturance over sustenance, chose terry cloth mother over wire mother. "want of love can damage an infant for life"
