Looking at today's date, I have a sneaky feeling I'm missing a birthday. Is it anyone's birthday I should know about? I'm terrible with this shit.
Sorry, got to make it a quick one - I've got a midterm in my clinical psych class at 1:30 today and I gots to study. If people want to throw me some warm-up questions about the psychodynamics vs. the cognitive behaviorialists, that'd be really helpful. Thanks.
Or you could just head over to our exhibitionist friend who, along with her ample rib balloons, is continuing her selfless missionary work to drum up votes for Scamper. If we win this thing, it's all her. She could have gotten Ralph Nader elected with those funbags.
Of course, I mean "rib balloons" and "funbags" in the most respectful sense.
Sorry, got to make it a quick one - I've got a midterm in my clinical psych class at 1:30 today and I gots to study. If people want to throw me some warm-up questions about the psychodynamics vs. the cognitive behaviorialists, that'd be really helpful. Thanks.
Or you could just head over to our exhibitionist friend who, along with her ample rib balloons, is continuing her selfless missionary work to drum up votes for Scamper. If we win this thing, it's all her. She could have gotten Ralph Nader elected with those funbags.
Of course, I mean "rib balloons" and "funbags" in the most respectful sense.
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Don't get all "psychodynamics" on us, B; we know what you're up to. You just want to shift the journal talk to pleasure-sucking. (Again.)
Are you suggesting that I have an unconscious wish? Because the strict behaviorists don't believe in the unconscious.
Funbags and pleasure-sucking.
Indeed.
I know you're not studying, Brendan. You're just sitting there staring at the boobs, like the rest of us.
I'm only going to look at boobs as a reward for studying. It's what the behaviorists call operant conditioning.
On the other hand, the Freudians among us would probably say that my inability to NOT look at boobs shows some sort of fixation in the oral stage.
Were you breastfed, Brendo?
Most men that I know are orally and anally fixated.
Brendan, can you explain this behavior cross-theoretically using Psychosexual, Psychosocial, Maturational, Cognitive and Ethological theories?
Sure, but by oral and anal behavior, do you mean in the traditional Freudian sense (oral as a desire for mother's love, anal as a power struggle over autonomy with parent objects) or do you mean that guys like oral and anal sex?
I don't know what the word "ethological" means. Are you making it up?
Ethology
Ethology is concerned with the adaptive, or survival, value of behavior and its evolutionary history (Hinde, 1989). It was first applied to research on children in the 1960s, but has become more influential in recent years. The origins of ethology can be traced to the work of Darwin. Its modern foundations were laid by two European zoologists, Lorenz and Tinbergen (Dewsbury, 1992). Watching the behaviors of animal species in their natural habitats, Lorenz and Tinbergen observed behavioral patterns that promote survival. The most well known of these is imprinting, the early following behavior of certain baby birds that ensures that the young will stay close to the mother, and be fed, and protected from danger. Observations by ethologists have shown that several aspects of children's social behavior, including emotional expressions, cooperation, and social play, resemble those of our primate ancestors. According to the ethological view, babies are biologically prepared to contribute actively to establish a bond with their caregivers, which promotes the chances for their individual genes to survive. Since ethologists believe that children's behaviors can be best understood in terms of their adaptive value, they seek a full understanding of the entire organism-environment system, including physical, social, and cultural aspects (Hinde,1989). Although ethology emphasizes the genetic and biological roots of development, learning is also considered important because it lends flexibility and adaptiveness to behavior.
Bowlby and Attachment
Bowlby (1969), who first applied this idea to the infant-caregiver bond, was inspired by Lorenz's (1952) studies of imprinting in baby geese. He believed that the human baby, like the young of most animal species, is equipped with a set of built-in behaviors that helps keep the parent nearby, increasing the chances that the infant will be protected from danger. Contact with the parent also ensures that the baby will be fed, but Bowly was careful to point out that feeding is not the basis of attachment.
According to Bowlby, the infant's relationship to the parent begins as a set of innate signals that call the adult to the baby's side. As time passes, a true affectionate bond develops, which is supported by new cognitive and emotional capacities as well as a history of consistent, sensitive, responsive care by the parent. Out of this experience, children form an enduring affectional bond with their caregivers that enables them to use this attachment figure as a secure base across time and distance. The inner representation of this parent-child bond becomes an important part of personality. It serves as an internal working model, or set of expectations about the availability of attachment figures, the likelihood of receiving support from them during times of stress, and the interaction with those figures. This image becomes the basis for all future close relationships during infancy, childhood, adolescence, and adult life.
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