As a child, Lilly observed that even though both her parents were employed, her mother served all family members their dinner. S
he noticed that her mother did all sorts of "little things" to please family members. She saw that although her father took the children to doctors, dentists, etc., it was her mother who made and kept track of these appointments. As an adult, Lilly incorporated all these behaviors into her own family life. This example supports the ideas of the:
Psychoanalytic theory portends our children develops some behaviour for adult life, the perception that human behaviour is guided by instinctional or psychological drive, hence she would observe that she ought to act like her mum in adult life.
