Psychology 2040A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Ilike, Elf, Learned Helplessness

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2040A/B
• Professor: Alexander Meyer

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Chapter 13: development of the self and social cognition. Self: the combination of physical and psychological attributes that is unique to each individual. Social cognition: thinking that people display about the thoughts, feelings, motives and behaviours of themselves and other people. Newborns anticipate arrival of their own hands at their mouths and seem capable of using proprioceptive feedback. Proprioceptive feedback: sensory information from the muscles, tendons and joints that helps us locate the position of our body (or body parts) in space. Personal agency: recognition that one can be the cause of an event. Don"t know if newborns can truly differentiate themselves from the surrounding environment but even if they can"t it is likely that they differentiate themselves from external objects during the first month or 2. Self-concept: one"s perception of one"s unique attributes or traits. Exposed infants to visual representation of self (mirror, video) and saw that they can discriminate their own face from that of a peer.