PSYC18H3 Chapter 9: Chapter 9
Document Summary
Three kinds of social motivation: attachment, affiliation, and assertion: attachment: its function is primarily that of protection and care for the immature infant. The infant and caregiver cooperate to allow the infant to thrive in an environment that contains danger: affiliation: accompanies attachment and is typically described as warmth (affection). Contributes to parenting, and draws individuals together even when they are not genetically related: assertion: we create hierarchies in many of the things we do. It is the motivation to rise in the social hierarchy, and to resist challenges from those who would diminish us. Early attachment as a template for later love: in long-term love two people cooperate to accomplish together what they could not do alone. Result is the affectional bond: proposed that adult love depends on three systems: attachment, caregiving of infants by parents, and the sexual relating of reproduction.
