PSY311H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Meta-Analysis, Amygdala, Inta
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In the first days, weeks, and months of life, infants come to discriminate between familiar people and strangers. By the end of the first year or so, they develop a loving attachment to one or two of the special people who are regular participants in their lives: mother father, sibling. Attachment: a strong emotional bond that forms between infant and caregiver in the 2 nd half of the child"s first year. According to freud, infants become attached to their mother because they associate her with gratification of their instinctual drive to obtain pleasure through sucking and oral stimulation. The mother who breast-feeds her baby is an important attachment figure. The baby becomes attached first to the mother"s breast and then to the mother herself during freud"s oral stage. Explanation turns out to be incorrect as infants develop attachments to other people who never feed them.
