Psychology 2075 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Adrenarche, Church Attendance, Erik Erikson
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Chapter 10: sexuality and the life cycle childhood and adolescence. Kinsey interviews with children: talking computer to interview children, more children report sexual experience to the computer than in face-to-face interviews. Canadian youth, sexual health, and hiv/aids study all important surveys. Bibby sociologist providing information about adolescent sexuality. No direct observations mostly used questionnaires or interviews. Infancy and the preschool years (birth to 4 years) Freud children have sexual urges and engage in sexual behavior. Male infants get erections even in the womb. First intimate relationship most children experience is with their mother: involves all the 5 senses. Bond begins in the hours immediately following birth and continues throughout infancy. Adults" styles of romantic attachment are similar to the kinds of attachment they remember having with their parents in childhood. Orgasms are possible at an early age although before puberty boys are not capable of ejaculation. Learn masturbation is done in private (40-60% do it)