PSY220H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Collectivism, 18 Months, Individualism
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Awareness that you are separate from your physical environment. You sitting on the chair is not part of the chair. Re ects your physical self, include the physical objects, people --> they become a part of who we are. Me-self: the words that re ect who you are. Attributes, morals, values, experiences, social roles, motives, traits, attitudes, beliefs. Isn"t always consciously aware, depends on the situations. Exists in memory, organize the information regarding a particular concept, in uence how we process info relating to that concept, how to retrieve info. Self-reference remember better when it"s related to ourselves. Cognitive abilities take sensory info and turn it into a mental image -- self-concept. Other people can have di erent experiences and knowledge from us, theory of how the mind works. -> able to create a future self with these abilities. Children that reach about 18 months start to have the ability to realize the self.
