PSY325H5 Midterm: PSY325- Lecture Two
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Maintain coherent picture of who we are to our world (physical and social) Mental structures that organize all the information that pertains to us. Influence how you process information; guide what grabs your attention in the physical and social world; what you notice, what you think about, what you elaborate on; how you process information (deeply or superficially) Who i am in that specific social relationship. What the self looks like across the lifespan and how it develops. Awareness that you have ownership over your actions, feelings, thoughts. Self agency emerges over the course of the first two years very gradually. Infants are able to remember events in which a particular action of theirs results in a particular consequence on a particular object. Infant in crib and put a mobile over and place a ribbon on child"s toe and another to the mobile. During training phase, train infant that whenever infants foot is moved it turns the mobile.
